a better approach to IT?

oooh, those wascawy democwatic socialists!

Thanks Volvo!



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Artists speak out on Intellectual Property!

In many of the passionate discussions of "intellectual property" and the evils of impinging
on someone else's creativity, one can sometimes
get the impression that artists are united and unanimous on this burning issue.


This is not true.











    “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal;
bad poets deface what they take, and good poets
make it into something better, or at least something
different.
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.”
         — T.S. Eliot












    “It’s not where you take things from—
      it’s where you take them to.”
           — Jean-Luc Godard














“If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever.
But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone
will say you’re so original!”         — Gary Panter














“Plagiarism is basic to all culture.”         
— Pete Seeger












“Those who do not want to imitate anything,
   produce nothing.”
         — Salvador Dali














“You can’t steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.”
         — Dizzy Gillespie




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How Evil is Downloading Music?

very evil.

incredibly evil.

it's so evil that....











are we clear on this?





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Pirate versus Paying

what it is...




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Feel the love?

Shameful: Sony raised prices on Whitney Houston’s digital music 30 minutes after her death

Every time I think that there is a bottom to the barrel of sick, ignorant shit that is the music industry, I find out I am wrong, again.

read all about it:
http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/13/whitney-houston-digital-music-price-hike/


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Monsanto is evil

The concept of Intellectual Property, as presented by moneyed thugs like the RIAA and MPAA is serious business, but on another level it's also
so ridiculous that one can almost enjoy reading about it.

The concept of Intellectual Property, as presented by moneyed thugs like Monsanto is serious business, but on another level it's so terrifying
that even reading about it freaks me out...

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Check your tuning?

... from my new series of comics about music and the people who make it, and/or listen to it and/or buy and sell it...
stay tuned...



Napster 
Megaupload
"God kills a kitten"
Ticketmaster
Ticketbastard




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