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Kazaa, Verizon Propose Compulsory Music Licensing
akb writes "USA Today is reporting on an interesting new alliance between Kazaa, the dominant file sharing network, and Verizon, a company with revenues of $67 billion. The two companies are floating a proposal to ISPs and the computer and manufacturing industries to lobby to force the music industry to license their music. Royalties would be payed to artists directly, thus circumventing the stranglehold the RIAA has on the music industry."
``Recording Industry Association of America president Hilary Rosen calls the proposal "the most disingenuous thing I've ever heard. It's ridiculous."'' Most disgusting thing? Possibly she hasn't looked in the mirror lately: http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/_photos/hilary- rosen.jpg
Look up the Economics of Elasticity when you get a chance.
If somehow we're going to tax the Net and distribute it to musicians (by what formula?), how about another tax to be distributed to writers? And what about visual artists? How about erotic visual artists?
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Let's be honest about it: music is just a branch of the sex industry. (Okay, we still have military music too, but you're downloading that, right?) So if we don't want a tax supporting the sex industry, we should probably disallow erotic artists, whether visual or aural. Still, shouldn't Net users everywhere pay a tax to subsidize the valuable time
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"with their freedom lost all virtue lose" - Milton
Coming up with a new business model requires thinking. An original idea.
Fuggedaboud id!
These xxAA parasites have opposed EVERY single fuckin' thing since the development of the player piano.
They ain't interested. Whatever it is, they ain't interested.
The fact that they have LOST every fuckin' time and that every loss has gone on to found entire industries doesn't seem to matter to them.
The fact is that if they had won there would be:
NO radio,
NO record players, reel-to-reel or cassete players,
No CDs, never mind the audio recording and reproduction industry,
NO TVs, VCRs or DVDs, never mind the video recording and reproduction industry,
NO advertising industry, never mind the multi-billion dollars that spent every year on the vain hope that something they they flash in front of you eyes will lead to a sale.
These cock suckers have NEVER won a thing. And thank God cause we'd ALL have to sit 'round the porch playing the piano, no matter how badly, and singing along, no matter how off-key, for something to do on a Saturday night.
BUT THE XX-AAS DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO THREATEN THE STATUS QUO AND THEY ARE FUCKIN' PARANOID ABOUT TECHNOLOGY.
The last time an original idea entered the halls of some xxAA, they took it out back, beat it to death with tire irons and dragged the corpse to the highway so it could get run-over by passing motorists.
Jack Valenti and Hillary Rosen are reactionary pond scum who will obstruct and block ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. Their knee-jerk reaction is to jerk their knee of anybody nearby with an idea right in the 'mads.
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Ha Ha ha ha ha hahahahahahaha oh, oh, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ROFL Ha Ha Ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha hahahahaha... ha... ha... ahhhhhhhhh. America, the country that practically invented the internet is now destroying it because of corporate pigs trying to cash in. And you know what? i don't even care, i don't live in America so it doesn't concern me. And the best thing of all is - none of this matters because the ideals of the internet will live on free though newer projects such as wireless P2P networks. Damn, i hope we declare war on the US soon, otherwise they will infect Tony (dumb shit) with their evil laws.
Guess what, i hit the karma barrier, so you can mod me down as much as you like, i don't care.
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