Really? A better name couldn’t be conceived than “Black March”… ? Is it like, a civil rights reference? I have a dream where systematically created music designed to manipulate people into mistaking predictable beats and repetitive lyrics for musical craftsmanship worth money is not sold for artificially inflated prices that pretend scarcity exists in the digital age?

It’s a double-edged sword. As much as the media industry needs to learn that they can’t pull bullshit like this forever and, someday, a return to people with quality thoughts and soulful expression will be necessary — people need to learn that the projects they ACTUALLY LIKE don’t fucking go anywhere unless they get some funding.

Somewhere along the line, “The Pirate” stopped only downloading shit that they didn’t think was worth money but were willing to sacrifice the free to at least give it a chance to prove itself and started just refusing to support anything more than sentimentally. Until that’s rectified, “The Pirate” should learn to shut their fucking mouth and protest SOPA/PIPA/ACTA for the threats they pose to security from abuse of power and an internet through which talent can achieve the kind of funding these people are claiming to lose on their soulless bullshit instead of the threats they pose to their free shit.

Long story short, if you put the honor, heart, and soul that true artists put into projects worth paying for into your protest of the true threats to them, we’d be attacking both ACTA and piracy at once.