WILL SOME1 PLS THINK OF THE RAPERS!!!!!1!!!

As I was scouring the internet for nude pictures of Margaret Thatcher, I came across this old article on Slate.com regarding a so-called "sample troll" operating under the moniker Bridgeport Music Inc. Essentially, the one-man corporation squats on old copyrights and sues anybody that samples the material without permission. So... what's wrong with that? Isn't that what copyright laws exist for?

Well, apparently, the writer of said article happens to disagree. As he quaintly puts it, "the trolls are turning copyright into the foe rather than the friend of musical innovation." Now wait a minute there Sally... You mean, if I take someone else's recorded material, cut a little piece of it out and loop it over and over again, ramble about "bitches" and "cheese" (why anyone would write music about dairy products is beyond my understanding...) every once in a while having a rhyming verse or two, it can be considered "musical innovation"? No fcking way!!!

My problem with the article is the view that, somehow, the rappers making money from these samples are somehow "innovative" or "creative." I'm sorry, cut-and-paste + infinite loop isn't innovation buddy. Not only that, they're somehow exempt from copyright laws, as they don't have permission from the original artist nor pay royalties for using their music.

He continues to ramble with the determination of Fred Durst trying to destroy his musical career by continuing to exist, by saying "imagine that the copyright owner of The Lord of the Rings had sued every fantasy book or magazine that dared used the words elf, orc, or troll." Except that, Rings being heavily influenced by Norse mythology, they'd be full of sht to claim property of such words. Elves, dwarves, and well, humans, existed in Norse mythology waaaaaay before Tolkien stole them. In fact, the whole mythology involved in the novel is down right a rip off of Norse mythology. "Middle-Earth," the name of the land where the book takes place sounds suspiciously similar to "Midgard," the plane of existence where humans exist in Norse mythology. But I digress. The writer of the article is a complete moron and I already forgot the point of this post.

BEER ME PLS KTHX