Lesson 1 - The best rant off all - Pick a fight with someone who's so obviously wrong you can't help but be right
From:
TownOnline.com - Lexington Minuteman - Arts & Lifestyle
'The software industry could buy up the entertainment industry and set up better distribution. They could set up a database where you could buy files like the iTunes store model, or, alternately, add a fee of anywhere between $1-5 to everyone's Internet provider bill. Let everyone download for free. The additional revenue would be dispersed to the copyright holders, it's easy enough to track who is downloading what,' he said.
Heh, everyone, look! I'm Jack Rochester, and
I'm another jack-ass with a book who thinks it would be a good idea to tax everyone's internet connection to pay for music. Socializing art, what a great idea! Gee, thanks Dick! I'm sorry, I mean Jack.
Heh, I made a 30 second clip with my butt kazoo, it's been downloaded 3000 times by people who have been goatse'd (tricked into clicking on it). Where's my money? Just curious, but are we paying by the download, by the length of the song, or just good old fashion artistic merit? Because you can just choose your method Jack, I'm sure I can find a way to exploit it. Maybe we can invite Aynd Rand back for an encore to Atlas Shrugged. It was a great book.
Oh, but wait there's more! What about video artists. Don't video artists, photogs and 2-D artists deserve to get paid? An what about the poor journalists and fiction writers? I want reparations for my stolen rants too! This is my fucking rant and you better damn well pay me for it. Heh, who said you could laugh! You're laughing at me! Stop laughing at me! I didn't give you permission to laugh at my words! You haven't even paid me for these words! Where's my damn money, pay up, I made you laugh, you owe me! Don't be thinking you can just come through here reading my shit and not pay me!
Look, lets get serious now. I don't give a shit if you're and 80 year old deaf lady who uses the internet to look at your grand kids pictures. I want my freaking money for my butt kazoo song. Pay up bitch!
Heh look, we tried this idea before, it was called communism! I can think of no more practical application of communism then in the arts! That's swell. You're swell Jack Rochester. We're all swell.
Need I be the least bit remorseful when calling ANYONE **Jack Rochester** who proposes taxing the internet for copyright holders a jack-ass.
File this one under "the inkernet teaches Jack Rochester a leson or two" and hopefully other people will learn from this lesson he has learned the hard way.
Chicago, IL
