torrentfreak.com — A little while ago we wrote about the exchange of emails between artist Indiana Gregg and The Pirate Bay. Indiana wanted The Pirate Bay to remove torrents linking to her work, which they refused to do. Now Indiana has a response for The Pirate Bay and file-sharers in general. It doesn?t pull many punches.
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Closed AccountJul 4, 2008
i read such a long article, and for thte first time, i have to agree with the majority of it. its going to happened sooner or later whether you like it or not.
radiovibesJul 5, 2008
Nice one!
abdiviklasJul 5, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect</a>
cryoniqJul 5, 2008
All I wonder is if I like her creampuffs :)
zendavisJul 5, 2008
Holes? Not at all. In fact I made no argument at all. All in all, I just stated a simple and truthful observation. The only arguments pirates tend to rely on are rationalizations and unwitty insults. Nothing more. People don't like hearing things like this though because it makes them feel halfway guilty about themselves. They'd rather delude themselves into believing that they've done nothing wrong in the first place for any multitude of bulls**t reasons.The bottom line is that if someone creates something, they are entitled to use it however they wish. You can call them out to being dirty bastards for doing such, but once you start pushing them out of the equation to do with it what you will, you're just as bad as the labels.
davotoulaJul 7, 2008
There are so many flawed arguments in her little soap box performance it's not even funny.She sounds like a spoiled child complaining to her mum about how the world is unjust and that she didn't get picked for the cheer leader team.
campusquarterlyJul 7, 2008
I think she has was asking some good questions. Most of this sounds like it'strying to make people think and in her original blog she explains about howthe Pirate Bay was bullying. So, I can respect any artist who speaks up for musicians. The songwriters suffer most because they write for other people and for themselves and from what I see, this is a valid point. Also, in some countriesbands have to pay to play, so, gigging and touring isn't always profitable. I thinkthe main point here is that The Pirate Bay is something like a new form of radio andradio always paid royalties to songwriters, the musician's who play on the record, etc.So, she's saying that rather than take all this heat from the RIAA and everyone sueingyou and your sharers, it might be an option to change and agree to pay a royaltyfor the revenues. That might help make it legal. Or, it might not, but it would show thatthere is being an effort made.
saphyrreJul 7, 2008
well download .flac files, so you don't have to buy the CD:))
warzpriteJul 8, 2008
Did you just compare Rape and Terrorism to music sharing?Can you really be that dense?
ecentaJul 12, 2008
What she percepts as a distant future,OH NO HALOFREAK115 IS HOPING THE INTERNET BORDER, GET HIM!Border Patrol: freaking lagBorder Hopper: NOOBS! I PWN YOUZ!!!
agarwaenumarthJan 8, 2009
Let's not discuss the s**thole that is Russia.>Is it your bread to give away? Did you bake it yourself? Because in that (flawed) analogy, it's the equivalent of using the baker's secret recipe to make bread that's just as good, but at no cost to anyone - except the original baker, who's out a successful recipe.But if you, by the power of a commonly-available technology, could reproduce the bread you bought from the baker, molecule for molecule, would giving away copies be stealing?