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I'm just wondering if what's good for the goose is good for the gander Timber. If you read the second last post in the locked thread, it explains what underpins the calls for suspension.
I'm making a song and dance not so much to get him suspended, but to highlight how much his flagrant theft justifications and thread deleting upset me, and that I had to exert a lot of self control to not flame him. His sig rubs our noses in it and actually slanders friends of mine still working for record companies. Record companies are actually a collection of humans, not some faceless machine. He's compared them to those that attacked my city. I don't appreciate it being shoved in my face like that.
How else do I express how annoyed I am? How insulting and infuriating theft-justifications are? If he was proclaiming anti-abortion slogans in his sig he'd be hounded down woudn't he? Imagine the hue and cry if his sig compared mothers who abort to Al-Qaeda.
I happen to be the only professional artist who's speaking here at the moment. Leonis is another, and he's voiced fury at the whole thing before now.
Message to music thiefs - don't expect professional artists to have different reactions to mine. A HUGE amount of my peers that I know personally are REALLY PISSED OFF.
The irony is of course, I do give music away on my site. For free. The difference is, that is my choice. Freely given. However, if someone was filesharing songs I had not chosen to give away, I would be horrified and insulted.
[ 01-29-2004, 03:32 AM: Message edited by: Yorick ]
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