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Skittle.
Posts: 2537 - Karma: 718
i think i do but i feel like theres a problem in there somewhere...

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1D1g1H/www.philipbrocoum.com/%253Fp%253D588%2526feature%253Drepost

Anybody else waiting for the old generation to die so that we can legalize filesharing, marijuana, gay marriage, etc. and then get on with our lives?

Look, I’m the first to admit that we young people are dumb: we are sex-crazed, druggy rock ‘n roll freaks who love Family Guy and fart jokes, but at least we care about the future. For us, most of our lives lie in the future. For old people, most of their lives lie in the past. I think that might be why old people are so stuck in their ways.
If you haven’t heard, the people who run The Pirate Bay were found guilty and sentenced to a year in prison and fines of about $4 million. This is nothing more than the older generation trying to stop the future from happening. By the way, they weren’t even convicted of sharing files illegally, or even sharing information about illegal files, but simply linking to information about illegal files which “aids and abets” the downloading of illegal files. This is nothing more than censorship.
I really hate people who try to stop change. As I mentioned previously in my blog post on Star Trek and Intellectual Property, a world in which information is free is one step closer to utopia. It’s nothing to be afraid of. If history has taught us anything, it’s that you can’t stop innovation.
Now, I don’t know a single 20-something or younger person who believes filesharing to be wrong (or gay marriage, or marijuana). Hopefully, once our generation takes over things will change.
Nov 28 2010 11:24PM
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B_Sellegren
Posts: 126 - Karma: 21
meh meh meh its all old white politician bullshit.
Nov 28 2010 11:25PM
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hey-dude-its-me
Posts: 4238 - Karma: 412
everyday theres old people that die while theres kids who turn 18 and reach voting age, thats what I tell myself every time I get pissed about politics
Nov 29 2010 12:42AM
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Bar_Down
Posts: 5896 - Karma: 395
your argument about the file sharing thing is a little sketchy. ya for you and your friends and shit file sharing doesnt affect anyone in a bad way so it doesnt seem bad, but in the end you're cutting in to someone's income, in this case, the artist who worked hard creating the music or videos or whatever that you are downloading for free. so ya, theres a reason why ppl are mad about that shit, theyre not just bitching because they dont want things to change
Nov 29 2010 12:55AM
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rewand0
Posts: 315 - Karma: 14
Your views will probably change as you get older.
Nov 29 2010 12:59AM
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[tk]
Posts: 3863 - Karma: 1,906
it's exactly the same with my home mountain and the terrain park. old ass people who run it don't see a need for more than 2 jumps and 5 rails
Nov 29 2010 1:01AM
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cooper.fry
Posts: 2229 - Karma: 34
"white Republican bullshit."

Yeah I went there.
Nov 29 2010 1:02AM
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neutralzombie
Posts: 8629 - Karma: 606
hm. i can't wait to see how i feel at 50.
Nov 29 2010 1:18AM
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Arabian.
Posts: 9632 - Karma: 54
I agree 100% with what you and that guy just said. Claps. +K. The whole bit.
Nov 29 2010 1:19AM
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Arabian.
Posts: 9632 - Karma: 54
I'm old. Change scares me.
Nov 29 2010 1:23AM
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Cufe.
Posts: 1950 - Karma: 262
While I do agree that as i get older my views will change, that is an undeniable fact of life; I do think that file-sharing will become legalized and loved by the next generation of media producers. I have the feeling that gay marriage may not see the same legalization as file-sharing however, the problem for gay marriage is not being scared of new ideas. The problem for that is religion, sadly I don't see religious bigots dying out anytime soon (despite my wishes to the contrary)However, I cannot wait to see the world change when the youth of today become the leaders of tomorrow.

on an interesting side note, wiki leaks says that "the coming months will see an new world" so, I can only hope that things change for the better.
Nov 29 2010 1:35AM
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paige.
Posts: 1930 - Karma: 907
I don't think this is something we really have to wait very long for, it's already something that is getting slowly integrated into the system. Lots of smaller artists will release their first EPs/LPs on bandcamp or their own site for free. Musicians like Excision post the majority of their work for free. As other musicians see people being successful using these alternate models they will adopt them. We've seen both Radiohead and Coldplay put out free albums so it's not just small names that are trying it out.

That said if file-sharing is the first concern of our generation I'm seriously scared for us. I don't have a problem with the government focusing time and money on things like the environment, education and healthcare rather than regulating the music industry.
Nov 29 2010 1:54AM
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rudager
Posts: 11332 - Karma: 4,597
You had me at "sex-crazed, druggy rock ‘n roll freaks".

I don't think it's always going to be a matter of which generation is in "power". It's going to come down to politics and what politics are based, whether its right wing or left wing, young or old. That's how our world would be governed.
The world needs experience, it always needs a new voice. It's all going to come down to balance. You can have all or nothing.
Nov 29 2010 2:09AM
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General_Ripper
Posts: 3327 - Karma: 189
Well obviously with new technology the music industry has changed. Its a revolution of file sharing. There will be no way around it and it should not be censored. There just has to be a way to have musicians rewarded for their downloads, or maybe the music industry will just not be as powerful as it has been in the past. Either way there will be a change and censorship is the wrong way to go.
Nov 29 2010 2:21AM
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SCOO-WOOP
Posts: 1264 - Karma: 244
This.


And I dunno, my parents and all of their friends are baby boomers of the older generation and they support gay marriage, filesharing, and to some extend, marijuana legalization for the financial side of it.


So....no. I don't agree with that statement.
Nov 29 2010 2:22AM
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MN_Nice
Posts: 3824 - Karma: 56
What the fuck ISN'T funny about farts?
Nov 29 2010 2:38AM
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XtRemE11
Posts: 5680 - Karma: 246
most young people are idiots about politics. your right about marijuana, gay marriage etc.. but for pretty much everything else, im very glad we still have old people voting.
Nov 29 2010 2:48AM
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jblaski
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quoting the noob.
Nov 29 2010 3:02AM
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