Repeater substitute(was Re: (OT) Copyright in a Sampled World...

[Mark <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

I guess we found our Repeater topic substitute.

Mark

Jon wrote:

> :
> >
> > >Yes, but the public are a bunch of brain dead lemmings.
> >
> > Then why are you making music to begin with? For some elite group of
> > people who can appreciate it?
>
> Yes - me. I'm not in it to be cool. I'm failing that miserably :>
>
> > I prefer to enjoy myself. If I come up
> > with something great, hey, cool. If I don't, fuck it, I had fun. 
>Usually
> > I come up with something that a reasonably large group of people *also*
> > considers fun.
> >
>
> Then you are a luckier man than I; I'm jealous. :>
>
> > >What makes a stupid
> > >majority's opinion better than that of a few hypothetical, pretentious
> > >individuals?
> >
> > Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. (I saw 
>a
> > t-shirt that said that once. I've always wanted to go buy about a
> > hundred of them and recruit a bunch of random folks to wear them in
> > various places while I took a picture. That would be an interesting web
> > page.)
> >
>
> So they're powerful. So is the school bully. Is his opinion valid too? 
>Why
> should I care either way, as long as they aren't trying to pummel me? :>