<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Spike,</div><div dir="ltr">I find your ignorant generalization and attempt at a joke offensive. I’m kind of embarrassed for you. </div><div dir="ltr">Rap is diverse, heterogeneous like the people who make it. Some is intellectually void aka the WAP song. Much is not. Listen to the latest (2021) by Nas or anything by KRS-One to expand your horizons in this area. </div><div dir="ltr">-Henry</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 17, 2021, at 9:54 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] to my fellow renaissance life forms<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">I just don’t understand how pirating a CD and listening to it at the library are any functionally different. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>…</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">The library paid for it. When a radio station plays a song they have to send money to ASCAP (I think - something like that) bill </span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">w<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Simple reality: if we do not pay good artists for their intellectual property, we end up with rap. As far as I can tell, rap cannot be called “intellectual” property.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span><br><span>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>