The Internet is my home. Yeah, I'm irritated by Protect IP. But I'm not protesting or signing any more petitions. This is a humiliating joke; a distraction at best. You can't own a pattern of electromagnetic charges. It is not a material object that can be stolen.
Entertainment is not a commodity of survival that needs to be labored out of the ground. It does not warrant an industry. If making money off of movies and music became illegal, entertainment would be free again for passion and experimentation. I don't give a fuck if Pixar can't afford sportscars for all of their executives and producers.
I don't think it's sinister to tell artists they don't deserve money for something they should be doing out of their heart. You don't give your parents five bucks every time they do your laundry or cook you dinner, do you?
Now let's pretend that point is moot; If the government flexes its muscles for an industry, that industry no longer has the need to sustain itself or evolve with the market. Controlled natural selection would normally allow cancerous, repetitive entities to die out, so that new and more fitting ones can mend the cracks. Instead, we're going to hold onto that cancer until it kills the country, after which a better one will form.
That's what it's all leading to. The system is too convoluted, the people and politicians have become dissociated, and motivational logic is lost between the splitting of hairs. I wonder, will we relinquish individual freedom for a long fleeted cul-de-sac dream? Or will people equalize in authority and sufficiency?
Anonymous is my voice. Not an endless cycle of four-year Christs.
