TimothyOilpants

Good counterargument.

So there’s no problem then, what you want exists!

I guess you can stop complaining now. Glad I could help you put two and two together.

Yeah, so, 50 years later, when you can barely remember the lyrics, you drift from said culture unless you can you know, listen and refresh your memory. That is my entire point. Intellectual property rights paywall culture…

If your “culture” and ability to remember your youth is contingent upon songs being available on streaming services that’s not a problem you can blame on publishers.

Without publishers, who do you imagine would be distributing this music in 50 years when the bands in question are broken up, destitute, or dead? What’s the oldest independently published music you have access to right now?

Keep struggling then.

It’s not my responsibility to explain the implications behind your own words. Learn to communicate more effectively.

500 years ago people would get together in the same space and would sing it together. We still have that in pockets, but that isn’t how it is done now.

You relying on the commercial accessibility to music to capture your history and culture is 100% a “you” problem. No one is making you do that.

Oligarchy has nothing to do with you choosing not to share in song with your neighbors. You’re making shitty excuses for your laziness.

You are out of your mind if you think that it is not enabling rampant capitalist exploitation. It has literally given a handful of companies complete power over all of it.

Sounds like your problem is with artists selling their IP to corporations… And frankly with yourself for not creating more, or engaging in communal practice.

Stop blaming some big bad for your own lack of social engagement.

How would you have maintained your memory of that song and culture 500 years ago? What stops you from doing the same thing now?

Any problem you describe is the result of individual choices, not technology or IP law.

If anything, IP law maintains the integrity and cultural significance of creation by not allowing rampant capitalist exploitation…

Further harassment will be reported.

I owe your rage nothing…

Expect no further replies, continued harassment will be reported.

Someone should take your kids away… You’re unhinged.

Look…I’ve been as patient as I can, but either you don’t know how to debate in good faith, or you’re just not intelligent enough for me to bother with.

Expect no further responses from me.

Sure it does. If you truly thought you were right you would disengage…

You didn’t pay for the game.

Again… You don’t work in the industry, you don’t know anyone who works in the industry… You’re just talking out your ass on the internet.

If you want to fight for justice, pick up brick and go fuck up one of your local Nazis…

Whining about video games on the internet doesn’t make you brave, it makes you simple.

No trouble understanding it, you’re just wrong.

No one works in the video game industry to make money, I can fucking promise you that! 😂

If money was the goal, they’d be dentists or lawyers.

Sorry, can’t, NDA.

Nobody cares bro. AT LEAST Half of those 3,700,000,000 gamers have NEVER owned a piece of physical gaming media in their life…

You’re like some boomer “audiophile” defending vinyl… You’ve lost some important neuroplasticity.

Again, if you don’t understand that the passive behavior of “not engaging” is different from active opposing, I don’t know what to do for you. Life must be very difficult if this is how you communicate.

Abstaining from debate on Israel vs Palestine is very different from demonstrating in support of Israel.

“Trust me bro, I googled it!”

And what happens when the developer/publishers licenses (middleware, brands/teams, music, etc) expire?