Posted 11:21 AM by Gene

Take away all the ads for a certain lip-syncher, or pole dancer, or weightlifter, or hermaphrodite, or a certain recently deceased walking cadaver, and what have you heard about pop music lately? Oh yes, if you're a certain age you may follow certain sites, and download religiously -- but what's in it for the rest of us? When was a music star last known to the public for other than advertising? And can anyone who obsessively downloads really tell one masterwork from the next? The same with movees too. Oh yes, sighing teenage girls may be camping out for days awaiting the new Robert Taylor, but does anyone else really care? Oh yes, NIKKI!!!!! and SHARON!!!!! are going bananas over the box office, but when no more than five or six percent of the U. S. populace attends the movees on a given weekend, and it's pretty much always the same five or six percent, is it that important?

So when a copyright expert (to quote Forbeslist) says that "piracy is not responsible for the failings of the film and music industries...[i]t's that they fail to give customers what they want", can we doubt this, even though it is truer than most people who professionally excuse our culture want it to be?

And speaking of excuses, a hand to Forbeslist for devoting part of its ever withering resources to an earth-shattering topic like the rebirth of John 3:16. And give yourselves a hand too!