If SOPA/PIPA Passes

The internet has been passionately fighting everywhere we can to ensure our freedoms aren't taken from us in these unjust bits of legislation.

So lets say it does pass - what then? It would show our voice - the majority of America - the people's voice - doesn't really matter. Our politicians would have shown us they deem their own logic and reasoning more than millions of americans.

If it passes - do we turn violent?

You do know the SOPA is the RIAA/MPAA's idea, right?

You know who it is that makes the MAFIAA even possible in the first place?

You do!

Yes, you! You there, that just went and bought that Justin Bieber CD. Or Britney Spears or Backstreet Boys or whoever that …artist was.


Here's what we need to do:
Find out what labels are in the RIAA. Then avoid buying their CDs, unless maybe if you can get it straight from the artist. And even then I'm having doubts.

And that's if just simply finding a non-MAFIAA artist is proving too much to ask.

You wanna support your favourite artist? Go to their concerts. At least for now, the MAFIAA can't swipe the profit away from the people actually working for it. The artist actually making the art.


I've also been hearing about artists (don't remember any names, though) that tape the concerts and sell copies on flash cards afterwards. Like, already when the audience is leaving.

And so there are the obligatory naysayers calling those artists down for «being in it for the money, not for the art». Well boo hoo hoo, not all are as perversely holy as thou, someone actually wants something to show for their efforts. Someone actually wants to make a living and put food on their own table.
I heard about this person that seriously wanted to keep the artist starving in the street. His name was Adolf Hitler. (I know, Godwin's Law, yadda yadda). The RIAA are operating on much the same principle, just check the contracts they put their artists through.


Tl;dr: You want to support your favourite artist? Do it! Rock on!
Just find ways to leave the MAFIAA out of the loop.

(And just for the record: the MPAA isn't really a whole lot better (than the RIAA), but that's a whole different rant.)