Respect the artist's decision to put their art out as creative commons or not lest we return to the age of secretive guilds with closely guarded secrets. Polycount is the perfect example of a free exchange of ideas that doesn't involve copyright infringement.
They were hits because they were good songs that they made into great songs. Originality is an illusion. All art is derivative. We build on what came before. That is how all art propagates. If you lost respect for LZ taking some good songs and turning them into songs you love, then you are missing the value of what they…
Wow, that sounds really obvious, it's almost as if it's the kind of thing that the intellectual establishment would already have a name for and an understanding of... Time and labor is valuble precisely because if I don't work, me and my family become homeless and we probably die. I can say technology shatters that all i…