This Is What A Music Pirate Looks Like
In support of the founders of Pirate Bay currently on trial in Sweden, Norwegian political party Rødt (Red) has launched the "This Is What A Criminal Looks Like" campaign. The campaign's theme is that "file-sharing is good, allowing people to share music, movies and culture."
Rødt sees the Swedish court case as yet another attempt by the music and movie
industries to stop "technological innovation and development by force". But it's not the people behind Pirate Bay who have
shared files; it's the millions that use their site. So visitors to at filesharer.org are encouraged to upload a picture and show the music industry and world "what a criminal looks like".
More: New International Piracy Watch List
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Out of everything I’ve ever read or heard about filesharing, this guy has the best outlook on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmvM61iteBo
It occurs to me, reading this that, it’s as if people who do indeed care abut music, are collectively reminding artists that we have been far to corpo and way too underwhelming in the past decades, and that we need to step up the quality and stop whining.
Can’t blame them…they are right. And it’s time we started giving people a real reason to respect music and the people who make it.
brendan b brown
wheatus.com