How “authoritative” figures or companies desire to maintain order is funny to me.
The judgement for copyright infringement seemed so black and white back then, it’s like the company follows the assumption of, you use you abuse, if a person decides to use it just once they are the criminal and deserves to be fined. If they could, would they have fined the entire world, or just call it a tax? The urge or need for complete control, it will never be truly enough.

On another note, remixers or just people who create music feel like alchemists to me, creating something out of different entities, songs, sounds, notes, things when heard individually doesn’t really sound like much of anything when played linearly. How can you create a symphony out of tools that seem so different to each other? What constitutes a sound as the right fit? Do remixes already have a sound in mind and most of the time spent is to find the one that encapsulates the feeling, or could it be the opposite where the sound rings first and the rest of the project follows.
Creation is such a powerful action, to make something out of nothing. One person makes something and the person next to them creates another wonderful something, it’s wonderful that so many interesting projects could be brought to life and co-exist and build upon one another. I wonder what the next remix I hear will be.