Limewire got shut down today! Wait, what? Limewire still exists?

Limewire was for girls who wanted to download single songs they heard on Scrubs and keep them in a badly organized iTunes where artist names don’t have capital letters at the beginning and album titles are disregarded altogether. Anyone discerning knows what’s up with typing in (artist name), (album name), mediafire into Google (it’s also worth putting ‘320’ at the end of that if you’re fussy about your kbps – this is a blogpost for people -boys, mainly- who know what a kbps is).

Of course, real men have a Rapidshare account, roll with a torrent platform on their desktop or even got an invite to waffles.fm (anyone with a spare invite plz email robert.foster@readplatform.com), no one fucking cares that Limewire died. ‘The Man’ will always be one step behind ‘The Kids’ with this stuff, so there’s no need to worry about.

For those who still think our civil liberties are being eroded, here’s a parable that allows for the linking of great Youtube videos:

In 1992, Charlton Heston tried to ban Ice T, but the next year, Gravediggaz released their foul and revolting debut album, and Charlton never even noticed those guys.

You see? Once ‘The Man’ has gone after his scapegoat, he’ll lose interest and move on, and the people who were really after the thing the scapegoat offered (in that instance, rap with explicit lyrics about murder, in our instance, free music) will find it somewhere else when ‘the man’ has turned his attention to other things, even if it is on a slightly less public scale.

Downloading music is definitely, without question stealing and there’s no point in pretending otherwise. But publicly defending it probably just draws attention to it, the answer is to get on with doing it and stay one step ahead of the feds at all times.