pirates of the world unite!
Posted on July 12, 2007
check this out:
[google -166095432964105847 Good Copy, Bad Copy]
my thoughts on the matter? I’m wary of the “universal license” or the “blanket license” that so many of the pro-downloading industry-type people seem to advocate because, as an independent artist whose music is distributed over the internet, people would be forced to pay the record companies that i hate for the right to download my music and I would never see a penny of that money unless i came to some sort of arrangement with the record companies – something i have no desire to do. Frankly, i don’t want to be selling my music at all, I want to abolish capitalism. I ask people who enjoy my music to support it financially because I’m fucking poor, I need money to pay my rent, and it costs me money to make the music in the first place. Not like I’m making much money off it, I get maybe one donation for every thousand or so downloads, but at least no one can accuse me of “selling out” or losing sight of why I started making music in the first place…
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