tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845804679632600632.post6125382369375644627..comments2013-08-08T17:21:16.641-07:00Comments on Pontifications Ahoy!: Uncensorship (I Give SOPA the middle finger)Lepreemohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413246051060903837noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845804679632600632.post-2413368463988000432012-01-17T09:21:21.309-08:002012-01-17T09:21:21.309-08:00And shameless self promotion, if anyone who reads ...And shameless self promotion, if anyone who reads this digs all kinds of heavy metal (Death, black, folk, nwbhm, hardcore, prog, etc.) check out my site and come talk about some music with us.<br />http://metalstate.wordpress.com/Raffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17437732160579252109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845804679632600632.post-69064059480831878942012-01-17T09:17:10.678-08:002012-01-17T09:17:10.678-08:00Excellent post duder.
Just so you are up to date o...Excellent post duder.<br />Just so you are up to date on current events SOPA was shelved yesterday by Congress and PIPA is not to far behind with Obama saying he will veto it if it makes it to his level.<br />On the whole piracy thing. I consider myself a collector of sorts, when a band I like puts out an album I choose to purchase it on CD instead of a digital copy mainly because I like the pretty pictures and I can make HQ audio files in any format I want as many times as I want, but that's just me. But when I choose which bands to buy 90% of the time I have listened to the band or album before picking up the release(the other 10% is based on a cool record cover). How do I hear these new releases, well, the internet and downloading. If it weren't for the internet allowing me to connect with other people and share our thoughts on music 75% of the music I bought the past year would have went unsold and I'm pretty sure I convinced quite a few people to buy some records utilizing the internet, linking videos from youtube, songs from soundcloud, album streams from somewhere, and so on. I could go on all day on this subject but I'll sum it up as this, Big record companies are loosing money not because of downloading, but because they are selling crap. The internet allows people to preview this crap before they purchase and realize it's crap.<br />There's an album I absolutely loved that came out in 2011 by a band called Cormorant. How did this unknown and unsigned band somehow become one of the biggest and most talked about metal bands of the year, by utilizing P2P, Bandcamp streams, and just giving their music away, and when it came time for the new release, Dwellings, the band made mad bank because people knew it was good music and bought it. Music rant over, for now.<br />Onto games and movies, If I know a game is good (ie. not some shitty 'modern warfare' shooter) chances are I'll buy it when the price drops to something reasonable. Same goes for movies (replace 'modern warfare' with Michael Bay).<br />Movie studios and game publishers can make a lot more money if they just stopped being greedy and drastically lowered their prices. <br />All this downloading and p2p stuff is just the ramifications of greedy white collar execs. And they know why, fuckin pricks. End rant #2.Raffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17437732160579252109noreply@blogger.com