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- robwilkens, on 10/10/2007, -36/+231Dumbest Digg Submission Ever
- LukeAskew, on 10/10/2007, -9/+163FTW: The comic is "Toothpaste For Dinner" by Drew
mirror just in case:
http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07311/face-it-most-people-just-steal-music.gif - ripstuntz, on 10/10/2007, -13/+111Toothpaste for dinner is ***** wierd as hell....
- Kratisto, on 10/10/2007, -30/+126This isn't witty or poignant, and it's badly drawn and entirely unfunny.
- Alucard010, on 10/10/2007, -25/+90So much truth has never before been crammed into a single sentence.
- cozinator, on 10/10/2007, -12/+74Why the f doesn't digg have a pic section?
- Ap31r0n, on 10/10/2007, -6/+60Dugg for the mirror in the first comment
- mstoneburner, on 10/10/2007, -7/+50I'm not sure calling people "dumb" can be considered witty, or poignant.
- BlackMagic2, on 10/10/2007, -14/+56I don't get it :/
- nymphetamine, on 10/10/2007, -1/+41Agreed. Pubes are way overrated.
- themuffinman, on 10/10/2007, -13/+48Hmm, maybe I don't steal music because I actually have a soul. (Most) Musicians make can only make make music if it is making them money. If I want them to continue making music, I'll pay for the damn music. DRM is ***** because it only punishes people who legally buy the music, not those who steal it. I just want to be able to do what I want with the music I buy. Is it really so hard to do that? Really?
I guess I'm pissed off at two groups of people here: those who download music (and never buy it later when they like it), and the god damned RIAA. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+37Yet strangely delicious :p
- newmodernist, on 10/10/2007, -6/+31I always end up being dragged into this argument against my better judgement because of the ignorance of most of these comments. People (who aren't in the industry) just assume they can make ***** up about how musicians make money off of this or that, or how they don't need labels or CD sales to survive to justify their personal downloading habits. It's wrong. Every single band out there if they want to make any sort of money will need a label behind them for promotion. No, artists don't make a ton of money off of CD sales, but radio stations play songs based almost entirely on records sales, so if a record isn't selling, it's not being played on the radio, and if it's not being played on the radio you're not getting the promotion you need to expose yourself to more potential listeners..and thus sell more albums/concert tickets/shirts/whatever. Why do people believe they're entitled to free music? Do you do your job for nothing?
- koko775, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25I hear it goes well with orange juice. ;)
- corevette, on 10/10/2007, -4/+27http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/tfd-archives/tfdarchive-jun07.php
grr... - WhiteRaven, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24Must be a different meaning of the words witty and poignant than I'm accustomed to.
- celkin, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22Now that's a little extreme. We have all seen MUCH stupider submissions.
- theonlybigboss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17yes, he very much does
but stop dragging politics into every ***** topic please - chrisutley, on 10/10/2007, -6/+22... the only reason most people steal music is because (1) it's easy to do and (2) the likelihood of getting caught is low - which leads me to believe most people will steal if it's convenient to do so - sad
- mstoneburner, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20Not all musicians are concert musicians. Not all music fans like live music.
- addicted68098, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18I buy CD's, heck I even pay for them, and I can even steal music if I wanted to but I don't. But I pay for music so I must be dumb, I need to support my favorite artist's meth habit somehow. But I must be dumb.
(I do use g2p a lot) - Puppetfunk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16reason 3) they don't want to spend money
- acu8509, on 10/10/2007, -6/+20Also, Married to the Sea by Drew and Nataile Dee www.marriedtothesea.com
another one against the RIAA: http://www.marriedtothesea.com/050507/recording-industry-forbids-it.gif - lobasuu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12How come people always have to keep signing in? The "Remember me" thing works just fine for me :/
- wiz0rian, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14If front page diggs continue like this i'm going else where.
- Wickedboss, on 10/10/2007, -9/+20"Best Awsome Cartoon Ever - (Kevin Rose) (Naked Women) (iPhone) (Pic)"
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/4600/faceitmostpeopleondiggate5.jpg - Giga, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10God that made me cringe.
- tizz66, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10If they don't realise it, then let them suffer. Don't rip them off just because you think they've missed a trick.
- ontain, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13I thought indie musicians release their stuff online to get popularity and a following so they can make money off live performances.
don't most bands make more off performances than anything else (percent wise) - sjm20k, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Ontain - yeah its totally true - when you tour you make a lot more than you do selling records nowadays - but the point is, recording an album shouldnt be seen as a total monetary loss. I don't want to spend my time recording songs for people if they just steal them. If you put your time and love into something you don't want to see people rip you off, it's just not cool. I don't care if people download a few of my tracks and then buy a record, but if you email me telling me my album rules before it even comes out (thanks soulseek) and then never buy one, I reserve the right to call you a dick. It's the false sense of entitlement that people have that allows them to think this way.
Zmjone - I agree with you, but indie music also gets ripped just as heavily by percentage, mostly because indie record companies have to charge upwards of $15 per CD just to break even on the manufacturing costs. The internet is definitely the way of the future as far as distribution is concearned but theres still no telling if its going to affect piracy in any way. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+15most nerds with a sense of entitlement to other peoples' work steal music*
- Legionnaire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Keep telling yourself that, lulz killer...
- simplynix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9The motives for turning off the radio and smothering a crying baby are the same. See where your logic fails?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9If I had a website, I'd post a screen capture of your comment, and set up a digg link, and it'd ***** be on the front page tomorrow.
- grusandcrux, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Don't answer this, guys, it's a trap.
- grumpyrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Compulsory mirroring of front page articles FTW.
- browwiw, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Or you don't have a capacity for "the funny".
- Pocky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I couldn't agree more.
By the way, some of us know how to "steal" music, but don't. If the rest of you would just knock it off, maybe I could finally buy all of my music DRM free without having to go to a stupid CD store. - debney, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11Stealing music doesn't make you smart, just a thief. Buying music doesn't make you dumb... just honest.
- vonskippy, on 10/10/2007, -5/+12Yawn. Another "stealing music" is cool thread. If music isn't worth buying, why is it worth stealing? I'd have to imagine only dumbasses waste their time, bandwidth, brain cycles listening to something that's worthless (of course that's MTV's entire business model in a nutshell).
- bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I don't mean to sound rude when I say this, but when you type words on your keyboard, you tend to make yourself come across as a bit of a douche....
you should work on that... - Buckiller, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9iTunes?
Just sayin... - kenposan, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9So only people smart enough to break the law are allowed to share their opinions on a system of protecting copyrights that take the rights of end users away? wtf?
What if I am smart enough but choose not to? Can I voice my opinion then?
artist is a Gen Xer with a misplaced and misguided view of entitlement. - tizz66, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Finally someone smart - lots of people say they're sticking it to the RIAA by pirating, but all they're doing is giving the RIAA ammo with the people in power. If you want to stick it to them, you need to forgo their product entirely. Not buying and not pirating. That's the only way things will change.
- gilbes, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10There is nothing witty or relevent about this cartoon.
Music piracy is easy. The people with opinions about piracy/drm and those issues (by and large) are not too stupid to pirate.
Actually, the people this cartoon targets are the ones with better understanding of DRM and copyrights.
People that contend that piracy has no ill effect at all are too stupid to realize the issues surrounding DRM and copyrights.
Come to think of it, that might be the genious of the comic. People that are too stupid will not get the satire and believe it is pro-piracy, thus making themselves look stupid. - SenorCardgage74, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Wow.
Touring, concerts, AND ticket sales?
All three?
THOSE ARE ALL THE SAME THING! - tempusrob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6And for every $1 the label doesn't make on said CD, the artist gets told "Hey, we dropped $25k on you to record this album and it's only made us $10k. Please make out a $15k check payable to ... us."
- actorboy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Finally, we hear from a musician who kno......oh, wait, you're just an armchair music aficionado who tells himself things to justify his piracy. Yes, musicians do well from touring, but it's not your place to tell musicians they must tour or not profit. If I decide to write a song, sell it for 99ยข and not tour, that's my right. It is not, however, your right to have it free because you don't like my business model.
- bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6The labels don't really do much in a traditional sense. Still, having someone to promote your music and work out distribution is invaluable to financially incompetent musicians.
Stealing from smaller labels is an entirely different ball game to stealing from the huge multinationals... -
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