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0Posted on Jun 4th, 2009 | re: Kanye Claims Books Are Lame, Wordy (147 comments)
Nobody said The Godfather II was a novel. It was, however, based off of a novel: The Godfather, which covered the basic plot of the DeNiro half of the second movie. That there was a screenplay in addition is as irrelevant in the case of Godfather II as it is for Godfather.
As for the commenter’s point, it’s absurd. Just because some forms are adapted from the written word, that doesn’t mean they all are. Music is the obvious example for the subject matter. No one’s presented in argument for why reading and writing, as opposed to other activities for which intelligence is important, are superior uses of one’s limited time.
If these anti-piracy arguments work on anyone, maybe they deserve to pay top dollar. Struggling indie artists like Pearl Jam get “screwed”, to be precise, by lack of income. There’s no need to invoke piracy, namely because there’s no need to restrict one’s contributions to an artist to purchases. The same goes for “indie stores”. There can be no ethical argument against piracy unless it can convince people that each individual beneficiery of the licit method of exchange is, independently of the others, deserving of its take.