JohnnyDelRay said:
derelix said:
I can't describe how much you are missing the point.
Gene simmons is not the one taking peoples money here. I never said I agreed with what the record companies do, maybe you should pay attention.
You said real world protests do less than silly web based attacks, they do not.
These attacks are not "hitting home" they are hitting the guy next door who happens to agree with the "home"
See what I'm saying here? Attacking gene is pointless and childish. You ask who is acting like the spoiled brats here? The people attacking gene and the record companies.
Happy? Of course not,because you have to defend what these idiots are doing for some reason that you have yet to explain other than implying that Gene's comments are somehow harming you. They are not, they are just words.
The attacks against gene are pointless, how can you not understand this?
Yes, I did go off a bit on my own tangent, sorry about that. Gene's words are not harming me, but they do a fair bit to plunge the public into more ignorance, and further the ploy of the recording industries. For the sake of the public, and the future of the music industry, I am a little worried. A severe dropping off of creativity and innovative bands seems to spear the music of today, but this could be construed as my own opinion, so I'll leave it there. I guess I would just like to see artists treated more fairly, and although I don't really condone a DDoS attack as an appropriate retaliation, it seems that not much else works these days because of monopoly, or a giant that's too big to bring down and no one dares to question.
It always seems like that when we choose to do nothing.
This isn't working either, but there are things we can do that would work.
If we could organize a boycott (yes those do occasionally work) against specific record companies. This would be fairly easy to do since downloading music is pretty easy, nothing would have to change except you would pay nothing for your music.
Start buying albums from bands that are not owned by record companies (if you are lucky enough to find them)
Maybe if we take it seriously, and don't devolve into a bunch of idiotic hacker attacks, we can actually change something.
You can say it's never happened before, but it has. Boycotts have worked before, just as protests have, strikes, things like that. They have worked before, we're just trained by television into thinking they never work and that random acts of violence and rebellion (towards no real goal) work. They never do, we need to get organized if we want to change anything.