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Digital Music's 2001 Winners and Losers
An Anonymous Coward writes: "MP3 Newswire is running two articles that contain their top 8 MP3 winners for 2001 as well as those who top the loser category. So who is this year's #1 winner? The legal industry for all the billable hours they got to roll up thanks to RIAA and MPAA lawsuits. It's a pretty interesting read and the two articles solicit reader opinions on other potential contenders. I can think of Dmitri Sklyarov right off the bat, but I admit I'm not sure if he won for getting the charges dropped or lost for getting arrested in the first place. Rolling Stone has also run their own digital music winners and losers list for 2001."
Scum is Scum. They both should be bitchslapped with a telephone pole. Several hunded times.
Hitler didn't kill anybody - directly - either.
Some of us feel that ANYONE who would impair the free flow of information is simply a criminal against humanity. RIAA, DMCA etc are the NUREMBERG LAWS of the anti hacker asshole nazis.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."
Karma be damned
Ok, then a fairer comparison is to the United States. When attacked (Napter, WTO) the two respond harshly (courts, guns). Both appear to help ("artist's compensation", "international aide"), but are stabbing those who help ($2 royalties; stopping internation aide to afghanistan, sanctions). Next the countercurrents within their relms dislike the actions (/. and the anti-RIAA mantra; anarchists, anti-war people, Chomskyites, et al with their mantra). Lastly those institutionalized in those mindsets try and quiet those countercurrents (corporate media, businesspeople; the majority of America).