Janis Ian on the Internet Debacle

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Janis Ian on the Internet Debacle

Posted by michael on Tuesday July 9, 2002 @01:47AM from the been-there-done-that dept.

Datasage writes "Janis Ian, famous songwriter and artist, writes about her views of free music downloads, the music industry and the evils of the RIAA in this article." Yet another artist with substantial first-person experience speaking out, reminiscent of Courtney Love's speech.

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Famous? by yatest5 · 2002-07-09 02:07 · Score: 3, Funny

This must be a new meaning of famous I've never come across before. Come on /., sort it out.
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Re:more artists against RIAA by Lord_Slepnir · 2002-07-09 02:19 · Score: 3, Funny

And we all know how proud he is of his black heritage, don't we
What? He's black?
How could you miss this one? by drew_kime · 2002-07-09 02:36 · Score: 4, Funny

We'll turn into Microsoft if we're not careful

Wow. Anti-RIAA and anti-Microsoft in eight words. The girl can write.

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Ozzy! by ShavenYak · 2002-07-09 03:24 · Score: 3, Funny

I don't know, but I have this great mental image of Ozzy biting off Hilary Rosen's head.

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1. Re:Ozzy! by questionlp · 2002-07-09 03:38 · Score: 2, Funny
  
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Re:more artists against RIAA by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-09 03:33 · Score: 1, Funny

What? He's black?

Isn't America great? Some poor black kid can
grow up to be a rich white woman.
Re:I want an apology by DEBEDb · 2002-07-09 04:06 · Score: 2, Funny

My CD collection vastly outweighs my mp3 collection

I'm sure. How much does an mp3 weigh?

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