AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE (the Sticker)

omgz fucking awesome! analog Pirates of the Amazon

badassmotherfucker. you are so incredible!!

haha I love it! also the comments: “analog Pirates of the Amazon” so.good. OR “This was a real dick move.” – just like a reaction we got on PotA: “..fuckin stupid especially with the amazing price cuts amazon gives its customers…” – All about the lulz

On the one hand, amazing job!

On the other hand, those poor sales people who have to remove all those stickers…

lame.

How does this benefit anyone? heather r. you defend it as “trying to accomplish something,” what exactly is this going to accomplish? Other than the previously mentioned of being a dick.

@Heather: What exactly are you guys trying to accomplish?
What a wonderful idea, in a time when the economy is in the shitter and retail outlets are laying off employees left and right because of poor sales, we should deter people from actually spending money on things and instead get it for free online. wtf?
I’m not against internet piracy, I’m broke and cant afford to spend money on frivolous DRM encrusted shit like movies and music, but seriously, if someone has money to spend, they should spend it. The only thing this is going to achieve is make more corporate entities think that internet piracy is hurting their business too. Your just gonna end up rallying more support for the wrong side of the fight.
I though it was cool for a couple of seconds but then I thought about it, obviously you guys haven’t. Would the actual artist who made these tell my why he thought this was a good idea?

Not funny, not clever, just cuntish.

@heathe_r.

Thomas Edison was a dick too. Read some history.

Nancy Bittemann, it is really hard to fit “have fun scraping these off, low-paid peons! I hate poor people!” onto a 3.5″ sticker, but for you… I will try!

some people are just too blinded by the dictation of consumerism to understand that copying Zeros and Ones is NOT stealing and it doesn’t destroy jobs!!! It’s the opposite, it enriches the media landscape and brings back the power to the people who actually deserve it. The artists. NOT the big ass Media Companys who made Billions with SHIT in the last 30 years. It’s SO good to see them go DOOOOOOOWN!!! And if you loose your job at the DVD store, go find a new one working for an actual artist doing cool shit!

Lets fix the world by paying for CDs!

Putting those stickers on vintage vinyls – now, that is low.

The whole project radiates pointlessness. Though I must confess, I think those stickers do look sorta nice on those Microsoft packages!

Hey i’m an artist who had to get a part time job because people kept downloading my art for free. Thanks for “putting the power back into my hands.”

you guys are asses.

I should print out my own stickers, so if I ever see someone put one of these on an album, I can slap one on their forehead that says “CERTIFIED ASSHOLE”.

God forbid someone put in the time, effort, and money to create something you enjoy, then ask you to pay a few dollars for it. Hey, next time you need a mechanic to fix your car, why don’t you just drive away without paying?

Aside from loving music, I have no vested interest in the music industry- I’ve never worked for a label, never been in a band, and never even worked retail. I just don’t like to see people who work hard get persecuted by dickheads.

hah, that’s great! i think i’m going to print a roll of these off myself. although i think it should specifically read:

“you can get this shit online free”

–certainly some care should be taken not to deface any ‘art’ that may well be on sale, but in that wide-subjective pool ‘School of Rock’ and ‘Indy’ just don’t cut.

and to Mike… the struggling artist. you’ve got a part-time job again because you’re stuff’s no good. give it up kid, you’ll never make it. read: Radiohead.

to everyone bubbling about the poor kid who’s got to clean this shit up, don’t worry- the poor corporate douche does get paid! related: thesad thing is that no one (now pointing at you) wants a dvd with a sticker on it, i bet you’d actually take it up to the counter and ask for a ‘new’ one. precious materialistic fucks.

I look forward to you sprinkling gasoline over the shelves and setting light to them next week.

That would sure show them, eh?

I don’t have a problem with downloading copyrighted material for personal use. I do it myself and continue to spend money on music and DVDs as well. However, encouraging others to do the same under the guise of creating some sort of movement is f-king bullshit. You guys are worthless assholes.

Vinyl is NOT available online for free. And you’ve ruined the LP covers.

Really, if you’d restricted this to heavily marked-up Microsoft products and over-priced chainstore DVDs, you might have had a moral argument here.

As it goes, your scattershot assholism will provide the RIAA with their first piece of good PR in their entire existence.

Well done.

Studying media science and this is seriously not a good way to deal with the problem… But what the heck, its true! XD

EPIC LOL

Wow, yeah, that’s great… you people make me sick.

1. You are defacing someone else’s property by doing this. Believe it or not, the store owns those items till you pay for them. This is no more legal than putting stickers on someone else’s car or house.

2. You are promoting a crime. This is no different than putting up signs that say “go rape someone” or “rob a bank”. You are encouraging the commission of a crime.

3. The person you’re really hurting here are the poor minimum wage slaves who have to scrape your “brilliant” joke off all that merchandise.

4. You make legitimate free, open source software groups look like crap through association with you morons.

5. You can get anything you want in life for free if you’re willing to steal it or take it by force. Even your moms. Douchebags…

I own a small independent video store that I work by myself.

Thanks for helping destroy my livelihood guys.

I’m the sort of person who would buy a crate of these, go to Best Buy, and plaster them all over the computers, laptops, and iPods.

Well, if your intent was to generate some heat, you’ve cetainly done that. Light? Not sure. Those who complain about the ‘wage slaves’(to quote several of your correspondents) should actually compliment you, since you are giving them more work. At least removing your stickers is marginally more fulilling than making or serving macwhatits, and much better for the customers. BTW, are the stickers themselves available online for free? No, not the pdf of the stickers, but the real stickers.

Me – filmmaker. Me – not supported by studio system. Me – eeks out a living on films that I produce independently and sell at various retail outlets. You – put one of those stickers on my shit advocating ripping my work and I will personally hunt your asses down and make your lives miserable.

I love all these Bourgeois dullards who think things can be changed by doing nothing objectionable, and politely accepting the bullshit you were all trained to say thank you for.

this is amazing and anyone that says otherwise takes capitalism too seriously

The hourly wage-slave doesn’t suffer from this. He is paid for each hour he scrapes off stickers.

Copyright protection is not capitalism. It is monopolism. And as the status quo of monopolism dictates: you, the tax-payer, subsidize its cost while the producer profits.

Proponents of copyright protection often use the rhetoric of “it protects ingenuity, the little guy, the inventor”. Obviously, if it protected the little guy, it would be the little guy that was listed on the production label. It would be the inventor the profits from his invention. The artist that profits from his work. In majority. That, in fact, is a rarity.

Before and after copyright protection laws existed, the same cycle existed:
1. Inventor (whose market specialization is in inventing and / or the specialty of his invention — not production) creates a new product.
2. A large producer buys the product from the inventor – usually with a contract for sole use of patent – whether protected by law or not.
3. Producer chooses one of two options:
a. “Shelve” product and simply prevent the competition from using it. Do not produce it.
b. Produce the product at a fixed price. They control supply.

Here, the creator has only received a fraction of the profit that is derived from the real market: production and sale of the actual product.

You, the consumer, suffer greatly from this as well.

When items are shelved, you, the consumer, have a lack of diversity in product choice.

When items are sold, but supply is artificially limited, you the consumer pay artificially high prices for products.

discussion = sticker campaign wins

And “sounds ugly” makes complete sense, Zm… You guys have really been sucked into the corporate machine, to the point where you’re defending the very vampire that sucks you dry. Way to have the wool pulled over your eyes.

As someone who has worked for minimum wage scraping, sweeping, and cleaning up after careless others, I can honestly say this does nothing to offend me. So what if someone has to peal it off? That’s what you’re hired to do. Suck it up and quit complaining. If you disagree with the sentiment, fine. But since when is removing a sticker the size of a small fist some big physical chore? I mean is it REALLY going to hinder anyone that much? Grow up.
That being said, I think this is fantastic. Us minimum wagers are well aware of the ridiculous costs of buying anything anymore from greedy corporations who only spend a fraction of the price developing, producing and marketing their products. (You would think others slaving away to make nothing would identify with this, by the way, and not criticize it. Pick a side and stick to it you pseudo intellectual pussies. Maybe if you did stuff with your free time that wasn’t criticizing people online, you could find a job making more than minimum wage…)