piracy

Piracy has become to unsuccessful media what the Chupacabra is to lost sheep - an easy way to both absolve yourself of any responsibility for your failures while simultaneously bolstering an overarching narrative that is either overblown or completely untrue. I mean, there are many things that could cause some project to fail, and even multiple definitions of failure, but it's just so much easier to simply say "because piracy" and skip the whole introspective post-mortem process.

Upcoming furvor over the new console hardware has boiled over into the Internet's usual escape resovoirs of arguments and hipster contrarian counter-arguments. Specifically, the idea that console hardware will now attach digital-style, non-transferrable licensing to packaged products, ostensibly to counteract actions on behalf of certain retailers to cut game publishers and developers out of their revenue stream through selling used games. More specifically: screw GameStop, we're not letting you give your games to other people.

This is an open letter to the writers behind the Trichordist, mostly because, according to them, I apparantly want to urinate on starving artists' faces until they kill themselves because I think copyright terms are too long.