honestly, get over it.

“Artists need to get paid for their work. Since the record companies won’t do it….”

You have just contradicted yourself.

Your argument is worthless.

It was wrong then and it’s wrong now. Artists need to get paid for their work. Since the record companies won’t do it it’s up to us to support our chosen artists directly.

Anyway,

“fallacious and false” *

Different laws cover entirely different matters.

Do you still insist that downloading is the same as depriving the creators’ rights to the content? It’s utter nonsense.

“Your average college student might download all the indie albums he wants for free but he wont steal from the grocery store.”

Another comparison of digital products to physical products? Lame.

“Lessig needs to take humself off the high paid lecture circuit so he can be objecitve, unless his libertarian activism has blinded him to the point to where he actually means stupid shit like what he said in this article.”

You say that he should be objective, but you are a hypocrite for being subjective. The quality of his opinion is far greater than yours, because he

1) gives reasonable criticism,
2) neither attacked anyone nor subjectively ridiculed an opinion, and
3) is a Law professor who is more familiar with the law than you are.

You already tried attacking experts once and failed, so why attempt that again?

““* Everybody with an Internet connection would have legal access to an ever increasing part of the culture produced in the entire world.”

You basically do, …”

Not even close, idiot.

“… except where piracy is so rampant that it’s not profitable to do business there.”

Do you even have a spec of proof of that?

“Oh, it does actually cost money. If there’s no money to buy music, there’s no money for internet.”

More evidence that you are malgre: the guy who always thinks about money.

“Since when is ‘access to culture’ some kind of right? Really? That in the constitution? Anyway, if you want culture, read a fucking BOOK. It aint expensive.”

A book as an alternative to music? You are really a dumb ass, moron.

The writing style and the change to all lower caps in your username is just more evidence that you are malgre.

“Hate to break it to you, most of their customers BUY dvd’s at walmart or amazon on impulse. It’s mostly kids that download music, families buy most of the DVD’s. The kids in college get all self-righteous about it.”

This is all mindless, insincere speculation. It is an affront to all consumers.

“Well Lessigs interpretation of the constitution is not the only one, and if you look at it historically, it was a balancing act between different publishers – the ones who wanted to have contracts with writers and monoplies to print something and all the other ones who were used to just printing whatever they wanted from Europe and making a shit ton of money without giving the writers anything. The people and culture didn’t have much to do with it, really.”

This is malgre’s writing alright. Give some citation and maybe someone would bother with this garbage, fool.

“Yeah, it’s funny how inflation makes dollar amounts grow. Ticket prices have grown too, as the number of venues has shrunk. Aritsts are NOT earning mone like they did in the 90’s, don’t fool yourself. Activist studies have nothing to do with truth.

This is definitely malgre. I remember him saying that the music vs game sales are off because of not considering inflation: wrong. He always compares to the 90’s and speculates about the past. Finally, he apparently has an opposition to all studies and always claim them to be created by activists.

You are an imbecile.

“It costs what people are willing to pay for it, …”

Tell that to any accountant, economist, or financial worker: they will all disagree with you on this.

“… unless you are a hardcore marxist and the state enforces price controls.

More stupid use of terms; you are definitely malgre. That, or you are just as stupid.

“Just because you are not willing to pay for it doesnt mean you can have it.”

I thought that you just wrote “It costs what people are willing to pay for it”. Fail.

You are still a hypocritical, ignorant and naive, arrogant dumb ass.