If A musician who makes his living in music, records and uploads his music for sale on the internet, and cannot sell it because it is being stolen by the public, and cannot feed himself, will the grocer give him free food? Will his landlord allow him to live rent free?

Today, artists are mostly not associated with record companies but instead are uploading their music to itunes, cdBaby, etc. by themselves. It gets stolen by the public, they make no money, they cannot pay rent, buy groceries etc., simply because they were born with a talent that provides them a means of making a living.

It's easy to believe that they are surviving despite the public's theft but they are not. If music copyright means nothing, then all copyright means nothing, and thievery becomes institutionalized in our culture. Anarchy is the result.

This is from TED. The talk is welcome: takes up the roots and knows the roots are many. We appear to know the direction we are going at the same time as that direction seems shady. A technology revolution backed and promoted by excesses of the capitalist culture leaves many with a chain of questions: how are we to eat our cakes and still have them/with the crazy life and ethical downplay penetrating socialization and madness of modernization, what is anyone to expect? Systems and people play out themselves clearly that we see the consequence and yet continue to blindly address the solution.

Copyright and benefit questions have surfaced in different ways across as many sectors of engagements as possible. Each time laws on the idea of the rights are raised, we find aspects of the purpose defeated, because we are used to aborting our progress. It might not be clear to many how to define, link and or separate the issues of morals, ethics and indeed capitalism to further apply "benefits" of knowing how on socialization: one to raise and be sensitive to conscience and promotion of a life of "live and let's live" culture. Strife to monopolize, intrigues of control and recklessness - excesses of carefree life], signal doom. We know and we have always been made to know, so why are we "crying"?

Capitalism: one unregulated has taught us lessons and yet most are blind to see, which also makes our technological advancement to produce the types of unwanted side-effects now materializing as claims and frustrations: a paradox!. Typically on the 'musician' reference above fixed differently into the box of capitalism, I was greatly bemused in the initial days of ongoing GOP president candidate search, to listen to one of the contesting candidates recall the glory of Elvis Presley in the hope of raising the spirit of listeners to the campaign speech on what America can create and recreate. But what kept my mind wondering was how the candidate cared less and remembered less about how the system exploited Presley, ignored and drove him to an untimely lonely death! There it was, even after he had left life, attempts were still made to exploit him, not caring for the full text of his history! It is the way "raw" capitalism helps to make myth and also paradoxically undo its 'path' to success!

We run chaotic system and of-course there is a song saying "You know I beg steal and borrow to give you love"! Isn't this our fate or could it have been otherwise: better approached and managed? Whatever the answer, it is all our own doing: the way we socialize in systems and exploit for futile glory! Let us take time to take the stock and we probably will better understand and appreciate the chaos, dilemma, self/purpose-defeating hence frustrations with PIPA/SOPA. The "TED Talks" man on this theme is somehow really great in the hope that he has not forgotten the interrelated roots of the problem besetting our internet technology age!