Sunday, November 23, 2008

What is Theft?

When dealing with file sharing and sampling there is a lot of skewed perceptions…much like we realized when we discussed it the other day in class. If you really take a look at forms of mediums one has to realize that you can listen to song or watch a movie and say hey that sounds like this older song or that shot was taken from this movie…people are always going to live in the past and references to Citizen Kane will NEVER go away. So if one ads an extra ting like Vanilla Ice did is it a different song….the lyrics are and the pace of the song is different. Another thing to look at is how powerful/impactive the band/artist you’re stealing from is…The Beatles would be a bad choice…Marky Mark do it up! Songs today are varied by very little, from just a slight chord change or extra beat and some people agree with it but usually the original artists like The Beatles or Tom Petty they’ll take you to court.

As for the DJs who take songs and mix them together and give props to the artists…I see no problem with that. Think about all the clubs in the world and all the DJ who are constantly ramping songs into each other and mixing beats night after night…that’s illegal? Plus how do they get the rights to spin the artists beats? Cause our DJ at where I work rips/burns his songs on his laptop…so someday we’re going to have a geek squad type police unit that rolls up in clubs and are like yank…no music for you…

SAW THIS COMMERCIAL THE OTHER DAY AND TOYS ARE GETTING CREEPIER!

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