Mike Doughty says SOPA is 'sloppy' - not evil.
Mike Doughty of solo and Soul Coughing fame, weighs in on the Piracy issue and SOPA. As usual very interesting thoughts from a very interesting dude. He makes some very valid points including my favorite bit about him telling his audience to burn his CD’s for their friends.
I recently pirated Bizarre Inc’s “Plutonic”—amazing, grindy UK rave track circa 1992—because the mix I wanted wasn’t on iTunes. I used YouTube, and audio-jacking software that recorded it as the video played.
It wasn’t free. YouTube rented my eyeballs to advertisers, I paid Optimum Online for…
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Mike Doughty of solo and Soul Coughing fame, weighs in on the Piracy issue and SOPA. As usual very interesting thoughts...
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eggsmaledict reblogged this from immutableinscrutable and added:
A+ Best line: “SOPA isn’t evil. It’s clumsy.”
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I’m going to repeat that last line for emphasis: “There’s easily a dozen artists in their 20s, whom I know personally,...
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Thank you, Mike! I knew (and, okay, still know) very little about SOPA and PIPA, but what Mike is saying here makes...
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theunpro reblogged this from immutableinscrutable and added:
Mike Doughty speaks:
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Dear Mike Doughty, I just started reading The Book of Drugs last night - I even purchased it legally through iTunes. I...
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Interesting perspective on the whole SOPA mess.
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There already is an alternative and it’s called OPEN Act. //keepthewebopen.com/ And sad to say, even though it’s clumsy,...
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