Culture is not about aesthetics. Punk rock is now enforced by law. [Article]

David Gerard educates the enforcers:

Record companies complain the Internet will destroy music. Musicians complain that they can’t make a living any more. The unsympathetic public, feeling the squeeze themselves, tell them to get a proper job.

The problem isn’t piracy — it’s competition.

There is too much music and too many musicians, and the amateurs are often good enough for the public

Meet the skull & crossbones [Article/Documentary]

If you’ve wondered, as I did when I heard about pirates off the coast of Somalia, how come pirates still existed in these times, a new documentary called Stolen Seas by Thymaya Payne, & this article shed light on why they operate, & the complicity of the Western nations that cause them to take up arms.The documentary was shot almost entirely by Somali youth that Payne taught to use a film camera