June 16, 2005

Stealing your music

Via Kottke.org (a website I find at once interesting to read but impossible to navigate), here's one man's open letter to the music industry, explaining why after years of staunchly defending them, he has given in and started to steal music.

But I have also now started stealing your music. I haven't stolen much, but I'm sure you will agree that the moral issue is not merely one of quantity. I have been one of the last independent apologists for a moral kernel, elusive now to perhaps the point of imagination, in your corrupt and desperate retreat, but now even I have given up. I still buy, but now I also steal. You have forfeited your right to my loyalty. And maybe you're too lost and beaten to care, and even more likely it's too late to matter, but for a few minutes I'm going to pretend that neither of those things are so. I'm going to pretend that you're still capable of awareness and reason, and in a spirit of truth that you long ago stopped deserving, while I've still taken little enough to list, I'm going to tell you exactly what I have stolen from you, and why.
-- Glenn McDonald

I lack his vast music budget, but otherwise almost totally agree.

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