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simplexion··on Music World Bands Together Against YouTube, Seeking Change to Law
Recorded music is the advertising for the musician. I don't understand why I should pay for that advertising. What they are advertising is their ability to perform music and they will receive my money when I pay to watch them perform or purchase their merchandise.

EDIT: Let me elaborate in regards to ehnto's argument. DVDs, clothing and cars are all physical items I am paying for and therefore I am happy to pay for that. I am also happy to pay to see a movie because movies could not exist prior to being able to film. Movies are the end product that I want to see.

All of these are different to music. Music existed well before the ability to record it did. All that recording did was make it more accessible. Back when you had to purchase a record or CD there was a physical item you ended up with to listen to that music. Therefore something that was worth paying for. I bought a lot of CDs. The music is not the end product. The live show where I go to see the musician perform is.

I don't get paid for people to use my work without any involvement from me past the fact I created something. Why should a musician be paid for you listening to the music they created. They aren't putting in any hours for me to hear that past the original creation. What are they getting paid for?

This is why I love artists like Hoodie Allen and Chance the Rapper. They release the majority of their music for free. Hoodie Allen was unable to release one of his albums for free on iTunes, so he charged the minimum. He was constantly on social media telling people they can download his album for free from multiple locations and that they didn't have to buy it on iTunes. People still paid for that album like crazy.

On that note... fuck the music industry.

simplexion··on Music World Bands Together Against YouTube, Seeking Change to Law
By "music world" do they mean record labels and musicians signed to record labels?
simplexion··on Panopticon: A libre, cross platform disassembler for reverse engineering
I like the About me:

Hey I'm Kai Michaelis, I'm in an IT-Security Masters program in Bochum, Germany and work part-time for people who use the term Cybersecurity unironically.

simplexion··on Your Life
Why do people always feel like they are wasting time? How exactly do you waste your time? I ask people this every time I am told, by them, I am wasting my time playing games on my computer. I love playing games... why is doing something you love wasting time?
simplexion··on What Happened When Venture Capitalists Took Over the Golden State Warriors
You truly think that? I believe you can put any other reasonable players with Curry and they will perform better than ever. When Curry is dragging defense outside it makes it easy for the forwards.
simplexion··on What Happened When Venture Capitalists Took Over the Golden State Warriors
Have you been following the stats? How do you defend Steph Curry? He could be with any team right now and hitting ridiculous amounts of long range shots. Those long range shots matter a lot!
simplexion··on Music streaming has a nearly undetectable fraud problem
Fraudulent traffic? So if I use Ad Nauseum plug-in in Firefox that is fraud?
simplexion··on Adam
Not sure if sarcasm?
simplexion··on See the Moments You Care About First
The thing that stopped me using Facebook and start using Instagram more is now coming to Instagram. Thanks, Facebook! I hope you give me the option to revert for a while before making it too annoying to do so.
simplexion··on Email pioneer Shiva Ayyadurai prays for recognition
Shiva Ayyadurai has delusions of grandeur. His behaviour on social media after Tomlinson passed away has been appalling. It would be best if everyone thoroughly ignored him.
simplexion··on Legal marijuana is taking a bite out of drug cartels' profits
That's why I said "not so much" because this is referring to refined sugar.
simplexion··on Singles are strengthening society’s social bonds
Every time there is a discussion about people without children versus people with, a bunch of childless people will make the statement about having to pay taxes for these kids. It is like they have read that statement elsewhere and then repeats it without actually thinking about it at all. I don't bother responding anymore.
simplexion··on The World Has a Problem: Too Many Young People
There has to be a high rate of Tiger deaths in developing nations. It just makes sense!
simplexion··on Legal marijuana is taking a bite out of drug cartels' profits
Oxygen is necessary to you living... sugar not so much.
simplexion··on Legal marijuana is taking a bite out of drug cartels' profits
This is annoying though because it is nothing more than a step towards legalisation based on pseudo-science (since there isn't any great evidence for the efficacy of cannabis in treating anything). Why can't we go straight to legalisation without all the wasted time and money used on the whole "medical" cannabis step?
simplexion··on Leaving Mozilla
Yes. That is exactly what being offended by verbal attacks to your religion is.
simplexion··on Leaving Mozilla
Being offended.

I am offended by you saying that people who have faith aren't irrational. That goes against my worldview and is therefore offensive to me.

Irrationality is cognition, thinking, talking or acting without inclusion of rationality. It is more specifically described as an action or opinion given through inadequate use of reason, emotional distress, or cognitive deficiency.

simplexion··on Leaving Mozilla
Christian by birth? You can't be a religion by birth. Your parents were Christian when you were born but that does not make you a Christian by birth.
simplexion··on KeeWeb: Unofficial KeePass web and desktop client
I find it strange no-one is talking about https://spideroak.com/solutions/encryptr
simplexion··on Huawei launches Matebook
And you know... how laptops were also referred to as notebooks decades ago.
simplexion··on Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
The S5 can deal with it. Considering my Nexus 5 has dealt with all versions of Android including the current version means that the S5 can too. The S5 has a more powerful CPU than the Nexus 5.

The problem is with Samsung and their terrible UI.

simplexion··on Intel Xeon D 12 and 16 core parts launched: first benchmarks
Server 2016 will be charging per core.
simplexion··on One-Third of Clinical Trial Results Never Disclosed, Study Finds
http://www.alltrials.net/ <-- Relevant site
simplexion··on Intel Xeon D 12 and 16 core parts launched: first benchmarks
I wonder how much it will cost to have 2 of these in a server running Windows Server 2016.
simplexion··on The Siege of Herbalife (2015)
Is he right about Herbalife being a pyramid scheme?

Is this really a question requiring an answer?

simplexion··on The Plot to Steal the Color White
"It’s about stealing something you can make a buck off of. It’s part of a strategy to profit off what American ingenuity creates."

This may be a quote of the assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice’s national security division which can be easily ignored but the next paragraph just makes it seem like the author wants you to accept the quote as fact.

"A 2013 study estimated that China accounted for as much as 80 percent of the $300 billion in losses sustained by U.S. companies from the theft of intellectual property."

What absolute nonsense. It truly makes this article come across as American propaganda.

simplexion··on Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator
I wouldn't bother with that automatic device. It is very expensive for a bluetooth odb2 device. You can buy them for bugger all on Amazon and buy the Torque app for $5.
simplexion··on Chemicals linked with severe respiratory disease found in e-cigarette flavors
What about the high levels of diacetyl in cigarette smoke?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24635357

simplexion··on Chemicals linked with severe respiratory disease found in e-cigarette flavors
You better stay away from beer then...
simplexion··on Transgender children and gender dysphoria
If he was 3.5 years old I wouldn't have said it wasn't believable.
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