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Singing Cow To Attack CBDTPA

Posted by michael on from the stampede dept.

karmawarrior writes "Gateway is launching an advertising campaign against Senator Holling's CBDTPA bill, which, apparently will include its cow mascot encouraging computer users to legally download MP3s and burn their own CDs." Wired also has a story; see Gateway's website for more, as Gateway takes a page from Apple's "Rip-Mix-Burn" playbook.

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  1. *sigh* by Carmody · · Score: 5, Informative

    While I think this is good news and all...

    Gateway is another large company with an agenda, and ITS agenda happens to coincide with my interests, and so I think it is good news.

    But really, what is the online-privacy and free-speech fight really? It is large corporations fighting each other to see which one gets to write the laws. There is a debate going on, but we are not really part of it, except as the Prize. If a divorcing couple fight over who gets to keep the Car, they aren't really worried about what the Car wants.

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  2. More FUD from the RIAA by thesolo · · Score: 5, Informative

    "If only they would devote a little bit of the millions of dollars they're spending on this ad campaign to help stop illegal downloading ... but that wouldn't help them sell more CD burners, would it," said Hilary Rosen

    <sarcasm>Yes, because all CD burners are sold to make discs full of illegally downloaded music!</sarcasm>

    Maybe if the RIAA would price their CDs more reasonably, actually give money to their artists, and stop the overwhelming and unnecessary homogenization of the music which they promote to (read: push on) the public, people wouldn't be so inclined to download music.