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EU May Block Music Labels' Download Sites
csmiller writes: "The BBC is reporting that the EU is (according to The Sunday Times) considering blocking music-labels setting up their own download sites, as 'Some politicians fear that the two services, Pressplay and MusicNet, would be anti-competitive and unfairly dominate the market.'" I wonder when the idea of a Neighborhood Cache will catch on -- it looks like large-scale digital trading will always be subject to this kind of interference.
We're letting you get third post
Troll Tuesday lives on
I tried to stop him getting third post. At least he didn't get 4th (does this deserve a w00t!)
WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYBODY?
OK, we've been represented by only a few of the major trolls. Where are the sporks? where are all of our friends.
Posting as AC this Troll Tuesday as I'm karma whoring to get +2 for a serious troll caper in the future.
make another account if you have a troll caper in mind! real men aren't afraid of mods.
Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder
Anybody else sick of RIAA and MPAA?
This is an understandable response to the horror and its effect on slashdot. It is an attempt to create a common culture among geeks.
Well I think everyone should look at the debates on the Slashdot site about the WTC bombing, and look at all the different perspectives, and you will see that we all come from very differenet cultures and these cultures determine our views on important questions. We cannot really create a common culture with Nerf, Athlon, Linux, Monty Python, or Star Wars.
I think that the slashdot editors are posting stories like this in order to bring back together a community which could easily fracture over the WTC retaliation arguments and arguments about safety, liberty and security.
It is far more important to work through these arguments than to distract readers from them. This site has a constituency with the most chance of any to shed light on all perspectives of security and freedom questions, at least w/r/t technology.
Although slashdot editors might not like >1K comments in a story, those threads will be more useful, and the conclusions from them more lasting, if we post these stories instead of Monty Python crap. Let the front page have space for these debates, and sideline Monty and Legos into the humor section.
when will you realize that promoting one or two so-called good songs on a CD while the rest is crap is false advertising?
Then not being able to return the goods after the deception if discovered is panamount to fraud AND theft?
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
How could this possibly be off-topic? The poster pointed out a grammatical error of the original poster. The EU parliament clearly do not all have testicles - some of them must have vaginas. Fucking moderators.