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Ask Singer Janis Ian About the RIAA and Online Music

Posted by Roblimo on from the fallout-from-the-internet-debacle dept.

Janis Ian has been a popular songwriter and performer since the 1960s, and has decided that Internet music downloads help her and many other recording artists. She wrote an article saying so, then wrote a followup piece, and now it's time for Janis to answer your questions about how the RIAA, the "major labels," and online filesharing affect artists like her. We'll send 10 of the highest moderated questions to Janis tomorrow and post her answers when we get them back. (Off-topic note: Alton Brown has not forgotten Slashdot. He had some show taping problems that messed up his schedule, and asks us to be patient, please.)

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  1. Have you read, "How to Cook For Forty Humans"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's grand, even if it smells like slime and space-dust.

    Shouts out to mah troll friends/fiends.

    1. Re:Have you read, "How to Cook For Forty Humans"? by unicron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Kodos: We would've shown you feelings 1000 times that which you call happiness, and a million times that which you call love. You would've lived in paradise for enternity as gods. But because of your distrustful nature, that may never be.

      Marge: For a superior species, they really rub it in.

      Lisa: Their were monsters aboard that ship, and surely we were them.

      Marge: Lisa, remember when I told you you were too smart for your own good?

      Bart: Yeah, way to go Lis.

      --
      Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
  2. Stoning women for having sex with mens permission? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    People in the so-called developing (as opposed to undeveloped, which is a more accurate term) world seem to think this is wrong.

    http://www.mertonai.org/amina/

    What do you think? Sanctions against backwards countries, or just leave them to it, and hope it doesn't catch on here?

  3. Why don't you start your own record label? by techstar25 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    For instance, you might want to start by signing my band, Local Porn Star. Thanks.

  4. Re:As an artist from the 60s... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *sigh* here we go again...

    You have a problem with beer and cigarettes? Or just the currently illegal ones? If the latter, please explain why cannabis should be the drug that has millions of dollars spent in an increasingly futile (and unpopular, I might add - look at the steps being taken in the UK, Portugal and Holland) bid to stop people using it, but the other, far more popular drugs cause massive damage to society?
    Are you really as stupid as your post makes you look?

  5. help by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    janis

    whats the average lifespan of a rhesus monkey. also if you somehow encountered 7 rhesus monkeys in your shower whom would you call to remove them. please let me know hurry.

  6. Did you know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Janis,
    Did you know Joplin?

  7. Re:Who are you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kylie Minouge?! I *LOVE* HER!!!! Wow... why didn't they say so?

  8. Re:More accurately... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You first post is at +1 as I post this. Your comment wont make it. What I post has no effect on the questions the interviewee receives. So quit being a whiny bitch, how about it?