Why don’t you STFU?
Posted under: Warning: This is a rant. This is not going to be pretty nor nice.
I’ve been meaning to write this post for some time now. It has been boiling on my head and, against all common sense, the more time I took to write (to try and let it go away or cool down) the more and more ingredients and spices were carefully added exactly at the right moment.
Today there was one of those moments. Consider it the cherry on the top, the parsley on the chicken, the lemon juice drop on the gin tonic.
As you know I’m making a weekly series for Bit Rebels called “Rebel Music”. This series is all about sharing Creative Commons/Netlabel music to a wider audience (Bit Rebels’ readers).
What is a Creative Commons License? It is license that allows everyone to copy, share and/or re-distribute any song, by any means, as long as proper credit is given to the artist and that the song is not being used for commercial purposes.
When I started that series I tried to contact the netlabels just out of courtesy. I didn’t have to since that is exactly why the tracks are released under a CC License, you already have the permission, à priori (this is latin).
Today I posted “Rebel Music Volume 5“, this time curated by Rute Correia, the director of the Lisbon Netaudio Festival. A few hours later I got a comment on Bit Rebels, on the previous post (Rebel Music Volume 4) and I had to read like 5 times before I was really certain that it was not a joke: Someone, that I couldn’t identify on the playlist, was complaining that neither me or Roland (the curator for that specific compilation) had contacted him “out of courtesy”.
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!!? Really!!! WHAT THE FUCK?!?!? Two persons (me and Roland) take our time to include someone’s track to make it reach a wider audience and what we get is someone complaining about it that we didn’t contact him?!? Are artists, or netlabels (I couldn’t figure out which one this person represents) now starting to work like major labels where everything has to be cleared before hand? Did he want to charge us? HOW STUPID IS THIS???!!!!
And how are they monitoring things that they only find out ONE WEEK LATER that we had used one of his(?) tracks?!?!?!? Don’t they have a trackback system on their website???!!!! Aren’t they interested in who is talking and LINKING BACK to their website? If not interested at least curious?!?!?!
I can’t understand it.
I can’t understand this kind of attitude. I can’t understand people that speak about things that they know nothing about but are not afraid to voice their judgment while saying “I don’t know him/her but…”. I can’t understand those that consider themselves so cool and such experts on everything that any project that doesn’t include them will be a failure. I can’t understand those that take no step to get to know others and stay with their asses on their royal throne expecting everyone to pay homage to them. I can’t understand people that are so keen to defend freedom of speech but get angry when other exercise theirs. I can’t understand people that define themselves as role models but have no trouble in putting private details of someone else’s life on twitter. I could go on, believe me! In the last weeks I have seen too many examples directed to people that are close to me that I could go on forever.
These people are those that live in their own world and everything that is outside of it is, to them, bad, corrupt, strange, fearful.
I can’t understand these kind of people. Just can’t!!!! And to them I have just this to say: Fucking learn how to use Google before you judge or send a comment to anyone and, while you are learning, SHUT THE FUCK UP!
This message is directed to anyone that feels I’m directly attacking them. I am. And I’m doing you all big favor in not revealing your names. Just grow up and spend a bit more time looking at yourselves and the way you deal with the world and leave others alone.
Picture Credits: Audrey Low via Flickr. (Under a Creative Commons License)
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I’d probably enjoy being contacted if my work were being presented,
however I’d also love that you took the time to help get it heard (seen), so there wouldn’t be any grumbling on my end. I can’t imagine why that person couldn’t see the liquid in the glass, the glass is full. Not half empty.
Many people have no idea how to use the web. I’ve been learning this a lot lately as people ask me the most banal questions all begining with, “Wow, Christina, how did you know how to do [fill in the blanks]?”
UM?> DUH, I searched it on Google, read the articles, taught myself How-To.
But all that being said, I still don’t know how to do trackbacks. I accept the ones that come to me, but I’m DUH on how to return it or… Okay, so I need to SHUT THE FUCK UP and hit Google now.
Search term: Trackback
It’s as simple as a link? Good Lord. Beat me in the head with a hammer.
Thanks love!
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