Here is what another artist says ( rather intemperately):
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What people like you refuse to understand: How are individual independent artists supposed to take on the entire for-profit un-authorized use industry? 99 percent of the people harmed by file sharing are the independent artists, the audio engineers, the roadies, the independent recording studios, the independent and specialty labels, the independent record stores, the independent publicists, the bus drivers etc etc. The vast majority of people harmed by unauthorized exploitation of artists rights are not rich and powerful. Unlike the EFF they do not have washington lobbyists to argue their case or employ staff lawyers to troll the internet arguing for their rights. The working class of the music business do not have foundations that receive large corporate donations to help them fight for their rights. The 99% are the 99%! The basic point of the law and civilization is to protect the weak from the corrupt and powerful. When you were an idealistic young law student could you ever imagine that one day you would be arguing against the weak and powerless and for the corrupt and powerful? How do you sleep at night?
I know what you are gonna argue next. May I?
You agree with me on artists rights but inhibiting access to websites that enable unauthorized file sharing, human trafficking, underage prostitution, counterfeit drugmaking and child pornography will require “breaking the internet”. In addition you will argue that there is something deep in the architecture of the web that will not allow any filtering of the web that won’t also be a danger to free speech. I’ve got that right? Right?
This is absolute bullshit. And I should know. I was pushing and “acking” packets back when there was only TCP without the IP. If you don’t know what I’m talking about you can’t possibly know anything about the architecture of the internet. There is nothing in the architecture of the internet that makes policing and free speech incompatible. Anyone that that says otherwise does not know what they are talking about or they are willfully misleading the public under color of technological authority.
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