Pirates Aren't Always in the Form of Johnny Depp

THAT is funny. ( I copied the ol' Jolly Roger myself. ) - heh - +^d

I'm inform the photographer. The photos are his copyright, so I'm sure he'll be interested in speaking to you.

If you're so fond of pirates and think pirating is so good, why do you have a copyright symbol on your website? And why are you charging money for your art? ;-)

This may be the best comment I've ever read on Current!

Sounds like a load of BS to me. Where is the artist in this? On the scrapheap? It's bad enough getting paltry royalty rates, but having your content stolen is way out of line. There is no justification. Don't punish the artist any more than we've already been punished.

Support the artists, indeed. But what happens when the artists' content that is sold directly to the consumer gets ripped off as well? Many writers (including myself) publish both traditionally (via established publishers) as well as publishing directly from the source (us). So we get screwed double!

So do you pay for the download?

i pay for downloads and cd's usually from juno download or beatport. cd's i try and get locally, but for major label artists (emi, sony bmg etc...) i download, but i do go to concerts and support the artists

and thats what google is for... imogen heap is a perfect example, i buy all of her stuff from her label and site, but the american distributed stuff is from sony bmg so i download that stuff. i google and wiki everything. i check my sources and all :D

Oh and i make music too :D which is released on all those fancy sites, i don't expect people to buy it... but its ok, i am probably gonna make my living dj'ing or something

The solution is what you vote for, Creative Capitalism. That's why we are proud to be American silly. What did u come to believe was the reason for our soldiers to fight - So ppl would shop on Black (day after thanks-giving) what do some call it. Oh yeah, spend spend, so the wealthy find out just how much disposable waste we really have!!
OK, you don't see the humor in that, no one does, lesson - not learned: Hello

Indeed, but we can't - which makes it all the worse when our stuff is ripped off!

Shame we don't have artistic "patrons" anymore lol!

True,...that. Hmmmmm.,.........perhaps if I shaved my legs,.........naaaaaaaaaah. Just not me.

p.s. - I DO remember when the CIA came to the University of TX school of art looking for "sketch artists interested in touring the world . . . "

most artists do even the pennies gotten make no dent in a lifetime of debt steal everything just like Picasso said or was it dali? LOL

It's a shame you think we don't.. I have many patrons...don't know how I'd survive without them .

hehehe they still lookin ??? sarcasm)

nah. That was in the days BEFORE every phone was a camera.

Well,....I THINK "nah". Perhaps, come to think of it.

I feel your pain! Sometimes it hard to get known without giving some stuff away and then once you've done it there is an implied expectation. The same people who think nothing about taking that free sample in the grocery store, knowing that if they like it they have to buy the product, can't seem to grasp that same concept when it comes to intangible goods i.e. intellectual property, etc..

Great article!

Thanks! What gets me is this sense of privilege and expectation these pirates seem to have. They are breaking the law by illegally putting this copyrighted material out there. For what purpose? It costs a lot of time and money for authors and publishers to put a book together. What do these pirates gain from stealing our labour? Why do they think they own it? I do not understand the mentality behind this at all.