Re:YouTube is working with Universal Music Group to remaster...
by cwkoss on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @05:57PM
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Bob Dylan got started playing covers of songs written by other people. Back then most artists did. "If only he had a shark in a suit preventing people from listening to his music, imagine how great he could have been if he only had more capital" \s.
The equivalence between cultural content sharing and theft was manufactured by the intellectual property lobby in recent history.
None of moral reasons for prohibiting theft apply to intellectual property. The marginal cost of production is zero. Society is poorer for enabling the greedy to charge admission for access to culture and information.
You're free to make your own calculus, but it seems that your opinion is in the minority here.
It's one thing to steal and acknowledge it, but it's a completely different thing to steal and pretend as if you're doing the world a favor and standing up for disadvantaged people. You stealing music helps you and only you at the expense of others. You're cheapening legitimate anti-capitalist rhetoric by abusing it for such a self-important and intellectually void purpose.