David Bowie on Music, Copyrights, Distribution

EddydaSquige writes "In this New York Times article David Bowie talks about his new album, distribution deal with Sony, and how he's "fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years, and authorship and intellectual property is in for such a bashing." Do you think the Bowie machine has the power to make the music industry see the light?"

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Q & A

[56ker]

Do you think the Bowie machine has the power to make the music industry see the light?

No. End of discussion. Next!

Snowball

[dorward]

Do you think the Bowie machine has the power to make the music industry see the light?

Do you think the Bowie machine has the power to keep a snowball frozen in Hell?

New York Times article

[Henry V .009]

I was surfing nytimes.com right before I clicked onto slashdot. I noticed this article about David Boies on the front page.

David Boies, you know, the famous lawyer who represented the government against Microsoft, and Al Gore versus Florida.

So when I read the blurb on slashdot, I figured that someone important had something logical.

My mistake.

Re:For those without NYTimes accounts...

[Clue4All]

What's the problem with registering an account? They don't ask for any personal information that you need to enter truthfully, and there's no less than 5 posts in every NY Times story with slashdot/slashdot logins and the like. I really don't see the need for this.

Lame ass registration

[fire-eyes]

I wish slashdot would stop posting stories with links to NYT and their lame ass registration.

Or at least get some illegal mirroring up, c'mon guys, give us a damn illegal mirror heh.

Re:Not 10 years

[hkhanna]

Of course, it will help if the average slashdot guy becomes a little more activist. Should you run for congress?

I will be running for Congress. I'm a senior in high school and I'm applying to the University of California-Los Angeles, and if I get in I will study CS/BioTech and go to law school for graduate studies. Then after I finish school, I hope to start a tech company (bio/computer/nanotech, still not sure). If that company is successful and I have enough money, I will start a political campaign. The reason I need money is so that I don't have to take "donations" from corporations.

My plan is to be in the House by 26, be in the Senate by 30, and be President of the United States by 35. Lofty goals? Perhaps. But I'm going to do it, and no parental discouragement or general lack of faith from other people in me is going to stop me. And when I'm in the White House, I won't forget you people, the Slashdotters, from whom many of my ideals stem.

Hargun