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Future of Music Summit

Posted by michael on from the retina-scans-required-to-turn-on-car-radio dept.

DotcomScoop writes: "We were provided with a copy of the letter sent by Congressman Rick Boucher to RIAA head Hilary Rosen and IFPI head Jay Berman questioning the legality of copy-protecting CDs. 'I am particularly concerned that some of these technologies may prevent or inhibit consumer home recording using recorders and media covered by the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (AHRA),' Boucher writes. We've summarized the letter in a story and CNET also has coverage. Monday is the kick-off of the two-day Future Of Music Policy Summit, which includes keynotes or panels from Boucher, Rosen, Napster CEO Konrad Hilbers, Nirvana's Krist Novoselic, Fugazi's Ian MacKaye and the National Writer Union's Jonathan Tasini, among others." We already posted a story about the Boucher letter, but it can't hurt to mention it again.

14 of 184 comments (clear)

  1. Want a free car? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Our car-manufacturing company has developed a new revolutionary business model for making cars.

    We give away the cars for free and then we sell services for those cars! If you want to we can clean your car, wax it or you can use some of our other services.

    We get cash from a couple of VC's, the rest of them simple don't "get it". If we need more we just call "the suits".

  2. Re:Music was my first love, and it will be my last by Britney · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    How's Washington?

    D.C. al Fine!

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    (if you're still looking for the point, it was back there, in the post. </sig>)
  3. ARGHHH!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just when you thought you'd never see any more of the idiotic commericals for Sins of the Father (because they aired it yesteday), they're STILL playing the blasted commercials.

    I seriously wish this network would go bankrupt in the next day or so!!!

    1. Re:ARGHHH!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      haha wow those must be some really aweful commercials haha.

      I never seen em cuase i don't have cable.

      Cable TV mostly just cheesy movies chopped up with annoying ass commercials mixed in...

      oh wait...

  4. HILLARY ROSEN AS A CHILD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the truth is all revealed. horror.

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  5. My new CD doesn't play under XP by dunstan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just bought a new CD, and it doesn't play on my XP machine. Aren't Microsoft shite.

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    The last scintilla of doubt just rode out of town
    1. Re:My new CD doesn't play under XP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That's a bunch of bullshit.

    2. Re:My new CD doesn't play under XP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      And this crap got past the lame filter?

  6. bride him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think Mrs. Boucher would have something to say about that :-)

  7. Re:Nice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Could you try making some sense? That post, and even your sig, are unintelligible.

  8. Re:Future of ARSE, more like! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    14/M/10 inch

  9. Developers developers developers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The title of your post gave me a weird vision of Steve Ballmer of MS running around like a monkey :-)

  10. NO, -YOU- get it straight! by Vanguard(DC) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You said it yourself, "get on with your life"..

    Now, THAT to me means getting on with protecting MY Civil right to sit in my fricken "jammies" playing video games SINCE I, and many others like me, spend my workweek protecting feel-good anonymous flamers like yourselves from those who would steal your freedom AND civil rights. None of us will FORGET the incident on 9/11, nor will will FORGIVE those who did it, but that in NO WAY will stop us from paying attention to the RIAA and others who wish to remove freedoms idiots like you have probably never fought to protect.

    So, listen, I don't drive over to the Ronald McDonald house and piss in YOUR hot cocoa and break YOUR lego sets, so do us all a favor and IGNORE ours.

    Thank you.

    Oliver Petruzel

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    "I think, therefore I get paid."
  11. Re:Music was my first love, and it will be my last by Legion303 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    That's not punny

    -Legion