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Hilary Rosen Defeated at Oxford Union
yogi writes "Oxford University Students' Union had a debate last Thursday, titled This House believes that 'the free music mentality is a threat to the future of music.'. Ordinarily, not too exciting, but since it is the Oxford Union, they get Hilary Rosen to speak. She lost the debate, and had to have pictures like this taken. Read the writeup at NTK, or a more detailed one here. I especially like the bit where she asked all the file downloaders whether it made them buy more music."
Gee, from the title it looked like it was a military defeat, but I guess this will do ;-)
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Hilary Rosen is a woman.
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"You did very well considering your indefensible position"
har har
Oh yeah, can you imagine how that debate would go? I can.. let's listen in..
Rosen: (to herself: heh, this one works every time.. well except at Oxford Union.) So, who here downloads and burns music?
Congress: (silence. they look at each other and shrug.)
R: (to herself: oh yeah, they don't know the hip lingo like I do) Uh, who here uses their computer to get digital music from the internet and then to put the music on recordable CDs, you know, like homemade CDs?
C: (silence. one congressman checks his watch.)
R: (getting frustrated) Okay, does anyone here use a computer?
C: (shaking of heads. one congressman quietly hides a piece of paper with pending legislation on regulation of the personal computer industry.)
R: (gets an idea) Hey never mind about that. Here's another one: who here likes money?
C: (faces light up.. the room becomes animated) ME!! ME!! ME!! ME!!! OVER HERE!! MONEY!!
R: (to herself: looks like my side won this debate after all)
Hilary Rosen was a woman.
your case is a good example of how filesharing is a "gateway crime". they start out with filesharing, but then they turn to identity theft, shoplifting, and eventually murder and terrorism.
Hey, at least Hilary gets health benefits.
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I'm an RIAA detective and my partner and I noticed that you were singing. May I please scan your universal id card. Enter your secret password, please and I remind you that refusing to supply your passcode is an offence.
It says that you are not licensed for singing. You haven't submitted the proper fees. Your cable bill is also overdue. I suggest that you take this summons and pay the fine and get these matters in order.
(There was music before the music industry and there will be music after.)
Well maybe their next of kin gave permission.