Ipod's my lifes Soundtrack: September 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Copyright thievery

You know people really amaze me with all this bootlegging of music and movies these days. It actually really pisses men off big time. I don't blame Metallica and Lar's lawsuit a few years back against Napster. As a society today people think that it's ok to download music, movies and such off the Internet because we seem to think and say " Oh he/she rich already they have enough money". But in reality, even though you don't want to realize it, this is these artists/actors livelihood and as a society we are stealing from them. They work hard and give of themselves 100% day in and day out to entertain us as a society with there music, movies and such using the talents that was givin to them. Then day in and day out, even at my job I see and here it over and over again, people burning copies of this movie and that movie and this CD and selling them for profit for themselves. It really ticks me off big time but for the longest I've just been like oh well I'm just one person, what can I do about it. But no more, it's time to try and do something about it or at least put the word out or my opinion that it is wrong.
Yesterday really did it for me, Wat I saw happen last night really was just unbelievable of people. We have an artist that's super talented and he does nothing day in and day out to give and give to his fans. Puts out some great and awesome music and a couple mixtapes and other songs for his fans all for free of charge and because he loves what he's doing and his fans but when it comes to a serious note and a charity he supports he uses his own funding to make a dope as heck music video for us and asks for a measly 2.99 donation to view the video, which it all goes to charity, and we can't even do right by it. It wasn't even five minutes after the video was viewable last night until some moron had it posted on YouTube. Then the crazy part is that over the next several weeks I know I'm gonna see and here it online and and twitter. "oh man how come he won't ustream anymore and how come he not tweeting anything or how come he hasn't put any new songs or snippets out there?". Come on now can you blame him or any other artist out there? How would you feel in there shoes? If someone steals something of yours what do u do? Think " oh that's cool cause I make enough money" and just let it go. No your gonna be pissed and more than likely even report it to the police. I'll confess that yes I will download a song here or there to see if I like an album before I go out and spend my hard earn money on the CD but I love music and if you come to my house you will see well over 3000 CDs in my collection and you won't find very many burned CDs at all. And i don't sell copies for profit for myself. Ok, I've went on rambling enough but this is something that really bugs the crap out of me and I have very strong viewpoints on the whole subject.

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Monday, September 27, 2010

DJ Calvin Harris Slams 'Copycat' Chris Brown

Chris Brown is facing the wrath of Scottish DJ Calvin Harris, who has accused the R&B star of sampling one of his songs without permission.

The Acceptable In The 80s hit-maker admits he almost "choked on (his) cornflakes" when he heard Brown's new single Yeah 3x, insisting the song's beat is suspiciously similar to the backing track he created for his own tune, I'm Not Alone.

Harris took to his Twitter.com page to complain, posting a link to Brown's song and writing, "Choked on my cornflakes when I heard new Chris Brown single this morning... Do you know what I mean?"

The star subsequently received a barrage of angry 'Tweets' from disgruntled Brown fans and in a later post, he added, "Oh wow these Chris Brown fans are amazing! Search '@calvinharris' and see some of the replies I'm getting... Best one for me is 'You're in the UK why are you commenting on someone doing way better than you'".