I still say what's eventually going to come out is that Simmons only put his name on the work and it was done by the 'assistants', who may actually have thought nobody would notice the swipes.
I mean, we've all seen that kind of shameless ignorance all over the place, in so many ways. Politicians who seem to can't believe that anybody would remember what they say when they say something different and get called on it, people who act badly in public and are shocked that anyone had a camera on their cell and captured the moment putting the lie to the deny, etc.
Some how, at some point, it became common to think 'well, *I* won't get caught, I'm tooo damn smart' and that's just a sign of being dumb.
Might an artist draw something that turns out to be similar to a frame out of a comic, or a scene from a movie? Sure, because all the experiences that person has had is a giant boiling stew and it goes to 'is it possible for art to be original in this day and age' discussions but what Dave is talking about it right on the button. I'll add one more thing. It's not the MONEY so much, back in the day of fighting the bootleg VHS guys, it's the MORALITY. We all knew we were doing something 'wrong' back then, wrong in the strict reading and we had all manner of wiggly justifications (I bought the LD, the copies I make to VHS are degraded just like making a cassette from a LP are down a gen, and the medium will self destruct over time) but in the end, we did it for the love and did everything we could to support the industry. Bootleggers, they were in your face and didn't CARE, they just slap the tapes on the table and so what. Plus they stole from each other.
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I mean, we've all seen that kind of shameless ignorance all over the place, in so many ways. Politicians who seem to can't believe that anybody would remember what they say when they say something different and get called on it, people who act badly in public and are shocked that anyone had a camera on their cell and captured the moment putting the lie to the deny, etc.
Some how, at some point, it became common to think 'well, *I* won't get caught, I'm tooo damn smart' and that's just a sign of being dumb.
Might an artist draw something that turns out to be similar to a frame out of a comic, or a scene from a movie? Sure, because all the experiences that person has had is a giant boiling stew and it goes to 'is it possible for art to be original in this day and age' discussions but what Dave is talking about it right on the button. I'll add one more thing. It's not the MONEY so much, back in the day of fighting the bootleg VHS guys, it's the MORALITY. We all knew we were doing something 'wrong' back then, wrong in the strict reading and we had all manner of wiggly justifications (I bought the LD, the copies I make to VHS are degraded just like making a cassette from a LP are down a gen, and the medium will self destruct over time) but in the end, we did it for the love and did everything we could to support the industry. Bootleggers, they were in your face and didn't CARE, they just slap the tapes on the table and so what. Plus they stole from each other.
Nowadays, of course. Man.