Glad he lets 'free will' reign.
I've read through it all, watched the videos, read the links.
Here's my summary in a quote;
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something,
when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair
This is the greatest anthropological norm for the human condition I have ever
heard. This thread proves this eloquently. One poster says he is not really into this stuff.
Why? Because his "salary" does not depend upon him knowing it, therefore not
of interest.
Another uses moronic logic to avoid the issue Frank Gambale addressees by
introducing a completely tangential argument, that Frank should use his position
of 'celebrity' to address other more important issues going on in this world.
This portion of the thread was just moronic in the truest sense of the word.
It was extremely disrespectful to Frank. It was thinking skills that are juvenile
at best, and scary at worst. A man, after over 40 years in the music business
lays out his heart on the negative shifts happening in the world he has devoted
himself to and someone reacts to this by saying he should use his 'platform'
to address more important 'world issues' as a manipulative or just stupid way
of not wanting to face this reality!
This is really significant. Despite the OVERWHELMING evidence this thread has
produced about the music industry, one example after another, passionate pleading
by a woman before congress with specific graphics, a video documentary by a band
in concert asking how many people illegally downloaded their LP, another video by
artists stating their argument...and it falls on tangential ears.
Hmmmm.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something,
when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair
Man is selfish. Period. We are always interested in what's best for ourselves despite
the fact that our actions can hurt others. As long as it doesn't impact ME.
"First seek to understand before being understood"
Behind the "I'll use reason to not understand" is tremendous arrogance. It is
EXTREMELY arrogant to ignore and then to defend the act of stealing...when it
doesn't impact YOU.
Not one person in here would play deaf and dumb if they were getting ripped off.
If one is so noble or numb to life, then why did you get upset about anything in
the past 24 hours? Why defend yourself against anything, ever?
The facts are simple and clear. Rather than just say, "I don't give a fuck...I'm gonna
take what I want when I want"...people dance around the fire, but the heart attitude
is the same whether it is dressed in a $5000 suit or ripped t-shirt.
...and this is a forum of MUSICIANS! If we can't get on the same page...all is lost!
Why? because we are all guilty of stealing music for free, downloading Torrents,
not paying for an instructional video. If you can't feel for Frank sitting on over
a years worth of material, not wanting to sell it because he will get SCREWED by
other MUSICIANS...and you even ponder this is whining?
You are a MORON! Now, that's a simple statement.
We are at the frog in water stage here...
Researchers found that when they put a frog in a pan of boiling water, the frog just
quickly jumped out. On the other hand, when they put a frog in cold water and put the
water to boil over time, the frog just boiled to death. The hypothesis is that the change
in temperature is so gradual, the frog does not realize it’s boiling to death.
Wait...let me guess, in the 19th century heat consistency would not have produced equal
heat validity to allow for scientific veracity. No...this is just hypothesis and there has
not been studies at any major university to prove a frog will actually jump out of water.
There is a valid 'leap theory' however we must consider. Why is Pocketplayer talking about
frogs? I thought this was a thread on music and stuff? Did someone say we can really
download a pizza? Can you send me that link, please.