On Jul 9, 2010, at 5:30 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> but you know damn well, and said so yourself, that this is not what doug is advocating (copyright laws). what he's talking about is an unfortunate state of affairs that is *normalizing* the notion that music, art, words, software, whatever magically appear before you for your enjoyment, without any sense of how it got their. it's a process that systematically evaporates the human social relationships involved in creation.
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> i can't speak for him but I know what I've always said about this issue: fuck you, pay me. (was originally the title of The Coup's last album. they changed it for some reason). not because i feel some sense of ownership, but because I see what is happening as way in which we are increasingly imprinting the idea that our labor, the work we do to create things for others, is so unimportant that we created world, not where our labor is cherished and honored, but where it is systematically denigrated.
When you speak like this, you can speak for me anytime!
Doug