Modest Proposal: Going Piracy Neutral
from the this-post-is-a-test-of-your-sense-of-humor dept
Here’s an amusing one out of the UK. Nick Henderson has created something of a Swiftian “modest proposal” for people who feel guilty about infringement. Modeled after the idea of carbon offsets to become “carbon neutral,” he suggests a process for becoming “piracy neutral,” which is that if you happen to infringe by downloading an unauthorized song, you should freely release a track of your own composition into the world without restrictions.
And, because people who angrily write comments on this site rarely read to the end of the post, I’ll just point out that this is a joke, not anything even remotely serious. Laughter is good.
Filed Under: modest proposal, nick henderson, piracy neutral
Comments on “Modest Proposal: Going Piracy Neutral”
Jeez Mike
You do realize your asking the idiot squad to actually read three whole paragraphs, don’t you?
Re: Jeez Mike
BTW, it is very cool.
Re: Re: Sends DMCA Takedown
This video and the music therein violates copyright law and must be taken down.
Re: Pirate the Beatles, Upload Crap of Your Own... Awesome...
facepalm… how about you upload a song of equal demand as the one you stole. you know, a song people might actually want as opposed to farting into a kazoo to replace a beatles song?
Re: Re: Pirate the Beatles, Upload Crap of Your Own... Awesome...
Whooosh
What was that sound? Right, the point flying over your head..
Re: Re: Pirate the Beatles, Upload Crap of Your Own... Awesome...
Double facepalm!
Re: Re: Pirate the Beatles, Upload Crap of Your Own... Awesome...
You notice how these guys trot out the same crap every time. Wouldn’t it be nice if all the copyright trolls all agreed to bugger off and sue each other to death for ‘stealing’ each others ‘arguments’?
whatever
And, because people who angrily write comments on this site rarely read to the end of the post, I’ll just point out that this is a joke, not anything even remotely serious. Laughter is good
Stupidity is stupidity, even if you think there is a laugh in it.
Re: whatever
This is true. All the laughs in the world can’t resolve the fact that you’re stupid.
Re: Re: whatever
It took you 8 minutes to come up with that? How classy!
Re: Re: Re: whatever
How do you know how long it took?
Re: Re: Re:2 whatever
Never mind that, even his math is off. The timestamps say it took me 6 minutes.
RIAA mathematics, ladies and gentlemen!
Re: Re: Re:3 whatever
Actually, with RIAA math, you have to recoup 5000 hours, so it took you zero minutes to come up with it.
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And it took you 7 minutes to incorrectly get 8 from 44-38.
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Daddy, Copyright math is hard…
See Mike, you are promoting piracy!!! Techdirt should be shut down for intentionally encouraging unlawful behavior!!!!
That's assuming pirates could make anywhere near equal value.
But if you could, you’d be keenly protective of it just like the “copyright maximalists”! You may give away your garage band tracks or silly little Youtubery, but if you’d scraped up $100M, coordinated hundreds of talented people, and worked thousands of hours to make a movie, you’d have entirely different opinion about it being “shared” for free. You might even be worried about recovering “sunk (or fixed) costs”. Your notions simply don’t scale.
How’s this for a remix? Just shorten “And, because people who angrily write comments on this site rarely read to the end of the post, I’ll just point out that this is a joke, not anything even remotely serious.” down to This site is a joke, not anything even remotely serious.
Re: That's assuming pirates could make anywhere near equal value.
Are you prattling on about your $100,000,000 movie again. OOTB? Get over it.
Re: That's assuming pirates could make anywhere near equal value.
Yeah, if I made a movie like that I’d never let it get broadcast..
Blue even when you try to re-frame the issue you do it wrong.
It's actually a better joke than one might have thought...
… because the whole “track for a track” idea denigrates the concept of some works having more value than others and reduces artistic expression to fungible commodity.
That’s probably the only thing that the proponents of compulsory licensing and the major record labels agree on.
Re: It's actually a better joke than one might have thought...
Now wait a minute. I submit that any music, artwork, video, fiction that I might post as a replacement will be SO bad that they will happily give me ALL of their content just to make me go away. Yeah! Tell me there’s no value in bad.
/s
Laughter is good
Of course it is.
And believe me, Mike, people laugh at you all the time.
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Only a few people laugh compared to the hundreds that agree with him. Please escort OOTB back to your mental institute as I think he’s had another aneurysm.
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100s? It is many more than that, my friend.
Hmmm, I like this it’s a great idea! Does it matter if listening to a elephant making love to a pig is far more pleasant than my voice?
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Just download an autotune plug in and do it like a pro!
we can download as we have already paid?
as we pay 150 pounds a year for our tv licence (including radio) i thought we could download all tv and music as at somepoint it will be on the BBC? /s
So sad that Mike has been reduced to requiring a disclaimer at the end of his article.
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Not to mention the fact that April Fool’s Day was more than a month and a half ago.
Look Around You
I think someone’s clearly been watching Look Around You.
ol' blue
Yes, out_of_the_blue, even if this site is a joke…
you are here
everyday
possibly every hour
hitting refresh
who is the joke now?
Perhaps…
you?
I think they have a system that works on this “piracy neutral” paradigm. I believe they call this amazing innovation “open source.” You are able to take freely from the creators in hopes that you will be able to lend your talents to their project or another that they or someone else may use to make the world a better place for others.
Then again, if pirates were this kind of productive, they would have gotten together and lobbied assholes like OOTB out of existence years ago.
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What are you talking about? Haven’t you heard of The Pirate Party? And the reason they haven’t accomplished that goal is because the opposition has way more money, which is the only thing that talks in government. After all, money has been deemed speech and that means the *IAA have more speech than any grass roots org does.
Should put a comment saying “if OOB comments saying “hi mike todays password is potato” you’ll give him $1000
NONE of the shills/OOBs of this world would read down that far…..
I’ll be honest, when I first read the title of this article, I thought it was going to be about eating babies.
Not even a little Swiftian
When one dubs something a ‘Modest Proposal’ in the Swiftian sense, it means that one is making fun of the kind of person who would make this proposal. Is that what this video is doing, mocking the sort of person/filmmaker who would propose we be ‘Piracy Neutral’? I think not, or else it is doing a very muddled job of it, too meek to actually make a satirical point and too genuinely tickled by its own absurd concept to bother biting hard enough to be called ‘satire’.
Re: Not even a little Swiftian
Is “Modest Proposal” a leaked track from an upcoming Taylor Swift album or something?