“If you think it’s too expensive, don’t buy it. The price will go down as low as it can.”

Then

“So they go out of business because they can’t or won’t lower prices. How does this affect you?”

Which shows that you are indeed hypocritical. And finally write this ad hominem:

“Are you so greedy that you just take what you want anyway?”

You assume that shadowblack is going to download, or in your view, ’steal’ it? Your an imbecile.

Also, yes, malgre, I’m back.

Should read

“logically incorrect”

You are an freaking retard. Everything single statement that you wrote is both logically false and a blatant lie that uses incorrect word definitions.

Just more demonstration of your idiocy.

That’s etiquette, dumb ass; intelligence does not require formalities. In fact, you couldn’t understand anything about real intelligence.

“Paying fans. Fans who PAY every time for the merchandise they take, the life’s blood and foundation of every business on the planet, including a music career.”

Wow, you are more annoying than malgre.

“The big hypocrisy among piracy is that “exposure” pays bills and allows artists to live a respectable life, or as Hahaiah intones above, “money will come.””

Where did you get the idea that ““exposure” pays bills and allows artists to live a respectable life”? Making things up again?

“[...] And it’s still not “coming”, even to the point where pirates continue to believe that unpaid possession is still their right …”

Whoa, whoever said anything about possessions? For some hypocrite like you that preaches about credibility, you desperately need to stop making things up.

“… and circumventing technology, law and its enforcement is somehow noble and good, as they cripple the musicians they claim to love and support.”

You don’t “circumvent technology” to download, you know. When has anyone circumvented the law and it’s enforcement? Who ever considered this “somehow noble and good”? In what way have musicians been ‘crippled’ due to mere downloading? Can you even reinforce your arguments with ordinary citation, for credibility?

“I couldn’t give a damn about the labels, let them die if they don’t bring real value and the musicians stop signing with them.”

Using a masking topic statement? How silly.

“But what you are doing to the musicians themselves is criminal, and to the motion picture makers,”

All utter fallacy.

“and the game coders, and the book writers.”

You are so naive in these fields that it’s not funny.

“ANYONE who works in digital and is pirated instead of being paid.”

Can you be more specific and can you even confirm any of this? Who do you mean by “ANYONE”? What do you mean by “pirated”? Have you ever considered that this “ANYONE” can be both pirated and paid? Chance is not that strict.

“Everyone of us here knows full well …”

We are not in the same class to be designated in the same subject.

“… that for over 50 years the labels and their pay-for-whatever-you-take model has enriched tens of thousands of musicians and bands, and thousands more beyond their wildest hopes and dreams. No piracy model has come close to that.”

50 years? Then that’s because everything was analog. Your point is rendered useless by that fact.

“They’ve also provided solid, working class salaries for literally hundreds of thousands of support personnel in recording, promotion, touring, graphics. No pirate contributes that either.”

Hundreds of thousands? Can you even verify those numbers? Do you even know what amounts were those “working class salaries”? Or is speculation part of your writing in your job?

“True fans put their money where their mouth is, …”

Confirmation that you have a linear mind in a pea-brain.

“… so when an influx of cash from music fans washes over good non-label music like a tsunami—thousands and thousands of indie acts— and allows indie musicians and their support workers to live respectable lives like the rest of non-digital workers, only then will pirates have made their case.”

Non Sequitur. This has always been about you equating downloading as physical theft for you.

“But until that happens, I hope government and industry ratchets up law, surveillance, loss of privacy, punishment and penalty to protect our artists until you fucking cry.”

Ordinary downloading is never anywhere near in severity to a violent crime, imbecilic fool. “Fucking cry” while failing to attempt to represent artists, as you bare no qualities of an artist.

“Because for what Jammie, Joel and the rest of you are doing to the digital arts all over the world, you richly deserve every bit of it.”

No wonder why your content sucked so much; all those delusional ideals, lack of intelligence, and utter disregard to human factors could never have produced anything consumers would have wanted in the first place.