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Rep. Boucher Outlines 'Fair Use' Fight
A reader writes "AtNewYork.com is reporting: U.S. Congressman Rick Boucher, moving to strengthen "fair use" provisions under federal copyright law, said he is introducing a bill that would essentially restrict the record industry from selling copy-protected CDs."
Her campaign against musicians
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I'm sorry, I haven't HEARD any music made since the 80's.
(well except for the occasional work of Enya that doesn't suck and a few oddlot musicans, most of whom aren't popular worth a crap in mainstream anyways).
Deathmetal and hard core rap SHOULD be banned, there is NOTHING artistic about yelling into a mic about how you want to rip somebodies head off and rape their body (death metal) or shove a gun up somebodies ass and start firing it off (hardcore rap).
That is just pure plain filth and it is an insult to REAL musicians that it is allowed to be made at all. (actualy it is closer to an insult to the human race that somebody who claims to be human could
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According to the First Amendment, neither you nor anyone else decides whether it's worth selling or whether it's really "music".
/my/ criteria for censorship.
First Amendment was written in times when people did not go spewing out dog shit from their mouths and call it art.
I SERIOUSLY doubt that any of the drafters of the constitution EVER dreamed of the type of vile crap we have today.
The first amendment is in there to protect freedom of speech so as to keep the government from getting out of hand and to keep Really Really Rich Guys from being able to screw over the little guy quite so often.
(actually darn nearly ALL of the constitution deals with those issues, I don't see a single thing in there about the rights of death metal bands....)
There is a fine line between art and vulgarity.
My opinion is that when the person doesn't have any musical talent as hitherto defined by, err, uh, anybody, ever, then, well, shit, ain't really music. I mean you can't DANCE to it, you can't SING to it, and the 'performers' can't sing or dance either. All they do is spew garbage into a mic really really fast and loud.
You want me to defend freedom of information? Sure I am all up for that. Freedom of expression? hey no problem, you got an idea, you thought about it, you got the right to express it.
Want me to defend some assholes right to thoughtlessly scream and rant all day and start shout'in about how to rape somebody?
Nope, fuck'off bud. Death metal / hardcore rap ain't done a thing to progress the sciences, they are irrelevant as far as I am concerned. Science wouldn't be harmed one bit by their removal, and that is
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So test the hypothesis.
Did pre-1989 communist countries, where musicians and artist (supposedly) could not gain monopolistic profits from their creations, realise the creation of more or less great art and music than the capitalist countries with restrictive copyright laws during the same time period?