  Today is just as boring as yesterday was, and I haven't done anything worth posting about in the past few days.&nbsp; It's not really a bad thing, it's nice to have a down period when there's nothing pressing on my mind. &nbsp; It's a breath of fresh air. &nbsp; I'm obsessed with buying CDs again and since Tower has closed,&nbsp; I'll be frequenting Waterloo a lot more. Not really a bad thing. &nbsp; Anyway, I decided to recycle a post I made on my urlLink old journal &nbsp; about piracy. The post is about a year old, but I think it's still relevant today.
&nbsp; It's cleverly titled "Put an End to Piracy---My Ass. " Enjoy. $20 million per movie. $20 fucking-million-per-movie. Julia Roberts makes that and the last 4 movies that she’s been in have sucked. the money from one movie should be enough for her to live on for the rest of her life.
but you get these stupid commercials with Ben Affleck and James Cameron talking about how much piracy hurts the people that work hard to make movies. not them specifically, but the people that do the actual work. on the other side of the coin, we have the music industry. they’re suing people for downloading music. they have the audacity to act surprised at how many people would rather download music illegally than pay $18.99 for the CD. why is this?
it’s because people are fucking fed up with having to spend their hard-earned money on worthless crap. I’ll gladly spend $18.99 for a CD, if the album is actually good. but there’s no way in hell I’m going to pay that much for a shitty CD just so some rap artist can buy matching Bentleys for his cousins or put a 24-karat gold ceiling in his house (Master P). nor will I pay $8.00 to watch a stupid movie so Ben Affleck can buy J-Lo a ring that cost $4 million. they can kiss my black ass. the only people that are actually suffering are the poor ones as usual.
these rich bastards filing lawsuits aren’t suffering one bit. they’re not fighting for the little guy. they don’t give a shit for the people on the bottom rung. don’t believe for one second that everyone’s gonna get a raise from all the revenue generated by settling lawsuits. if anything, there’ll be a lot of layoffs. if they want piracy to end, then they should put out something worth spending money on.
want more people at the movies? put out a movie with an actual plot. realize that most people have functioning brains (hence the rise in piracy) and that a whole bunch of pretty special effects won’t divert our attention from the rest of the movie. stop giving us CDs with two decent songs and 10 filler songs. I don’t give a shit how “hard” the artist worked on those two songs. not only that, but I don’t care who writes the songs.
just as long as when I decide to buy the CD that at least 85% of it is actually good. as a consumer I feel that I am justified in what I’m asking. as with any other product out there---if it lacks in quality expect it to lack in sales. expect people to demand something better. and expect them to get it by any means necessary. stop giving us shit and then getting pissed when we discover how bad it smells.
and for fuck’s sake quit making commercials about the evils of piracy. do you actually think that giving us a guilt trip from actors that make $20 million per movie is really gonna get us to stop? if images of starving children in Africa can’t guilt us into spending money, don’t think that Ben Affleck can. 
