Kiss frontman gives file-sharers tongue-lashing

May I just say Gene

Please don't breed any more.

Blaming the victem

Perhaps Mr. Simmons might want to throw some vitriol towards the music monopoly.

They were ones price fixing for years, sucking artist dry on any kind of album sales and lastly caught trying to extend their copyright while saying they were just trying to protect musicians.

If the music monopoly had played ball and used the networks as another sales channel then things might be different. What they were afraid of was losing control. Milking albums by putting 1 hit track with more "experimental" material.

Simmons should recall how popular Lars and Co. are now not that it matters, his career is not going much of anywhere, anyway.

Sounds like someone's having a breakdown!

"I am not their friend, I am their parent and they are going to do as I say. There is no running to their room and slamming the door. That's my room. That's my door. Even the poop they poop out is the food I bought them. The air they breathe is my air."

Yes I agree, beat your kids. I don't know them, but they're probably spoiled shits, so every beating counts.

On the other hand, I'll teach my kid to pirate like a pro so he doesn't get caught. I won't have to get so uptight about him using "my air" and "my door" if his entertainment is free.

"And so now we're left with hundreds of thousands of people without jobs."

Wow. I didn't know that the western educational system creates hundreds of thousands of people whose sole possibility of gainful employment, whose very purpose of life even depends on whether there is a plant in China that spits out shiny round pieces of plastic.

Let Social Darwinism cleanse this, I say!

You have to admire his fortitude

It takes some seriously large balls to stand up in public with hair like that.

Kiss - last album when?

Ummmmm

a) Wait till you get to his age......

And you will all probably be sounding just like him...

and

b) He owes his success to the fact that his music collection is made up of tapes that he ummm borrowed from me.

Funny how

Funny how some musicians with talent and the drive to still be creative like Nine Inch Nails are releasing all their stuff freely on BT and still making plenty of money off it, isn't it?

What a total ****

This geezer sounds like a total ****. Shouldn't be a friend to your own kids? What dose he hate them or something?

As for the file sharing thing. Shut the **** up.

Kiss are a shit band, I can say I honestly don't know any of their songs but they are definitely still shit!

I've never even heard of them, what are they some sort Welsh mens' choir or something?

Listen very carefully to the world's smallest violin

Gene, Gene, Gene.

Give Lars Ulrich a call, you can both go and cry into your beers.

Feck Off

The Statute Of Anne was put in place for the express purpose of allowing content creators the ability to monetize their creations for a predetermined period which was, if I recall, 14 years with an option for a second 14 years.

In return, once the period of protection expired, the content became part of the public domain.

38 Years is more than enough for an artist to milk their creation in order to make a living.

When the media industry (led by Disney Corp) succeeded in destroying the Statute Of Anne in their ongoing efforts to extend their period of copyright protection into infinity they essentially announced that they were no longer interested in abiding by the social contract that the SoA represented.

Hence, I am no longer interested in abiding by my side of that social contract.

Having to purchase works that were originally produced over forty years ago is simply ridiculous and is nothing more than brazen profiteering on the part of the media industry with scant regard for their obligations towards the society and people who provide their income.

While the media industry remains as the greedy, immoral, profits at all costs conglomeration of corporate monsters that it currently is I have no problem with anyone who declares that "Thar be torrents ahoy matey!" thereby completely ignoring the whines of an industry whose corruption and disdain for their own customers is legendary.

If an artist such as Mr Simmons here is not able to provide themselves with an income with their works that are less than 38 years old then I would suggest that they go get a real job flipping burgers or selling cars.

You know, like everyone else does *

* Except for "Pension for life" ex politicians but that is another rant entirely.

YAWN of the Dead

Look .........

As soon as the existing music "INDUSTRY" is no more, then maybe "proper" musicians can make some fucking money and maybe even a living.

As long as these fat celebrity (rockers ?) parasites are flogging their shick and dated institutional musical crap and "their" institutional musical crap alone, it will always be the same, the incessant out pouring of slurry from Simon Bowel, et al.

YAWN of the dead ?

So what if thousands of morons won't be able to buy anymore KISS albums ?

We probaly just saved the fuckin' planet !

ALF

Oh, please...

(This is a little late in the thread but still relevant).

Using the term 'freetard' will always be a good way to detract from your argument

It's a bit like entering a debate on liberals and conservatives by starting with "The thing about those commies is..." Even your own side aren't going to bother listening to you.

Poor, OLD, Gene.

Well, at least he's got "Boss Tweed" to live with. THAT has to count for something. Otherwise, the poor guy hasn't done anything since "Wanted: Dead or Alive". Besides, he is already making as much money as he possibly can. With his TV show, and the (rerun) KISS tours, he is "Being all he can be". I pity him.

People actually download it!

Kiss were dreadful, most of my friends and I considered them a joke, and an embarrasment to the world of Heavy Rock.

This was back in the heyday of Heavy Rock and Heavy Metal in the 1980s, you had bands like Van Halen (Running with the Devil), Scorpions (Blackout), and of course all the many New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) bands such as Iron Maiden, Saxon, & Def Leppard. And what did Kiss do - a silly disco song.

So basically the reason noone is buying Kiss stuff is we prefer decent bands.

Fail because they should.

....but the true irony lies here, can't believe no ones mentioned it..!

...his son is a bit of a rapacious copyist himself, y'knows, for all daddy's claims to great parenting. Kid completely ripped the art from the Japanese manga series Bleach for his own comic. Not just once, but over and over again, so much so that the publishers had to halt production! Way to go Gene. "They're allowed to rebel once I kick them out of the house and they earn their own living.", yeah, by ripping off other artists! How exactly does that NOT count as a FAIL in your books Gene...?

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