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Hilary Rosen Defeated at Oxford Union

Posted by timothy on from the choose-your-door-carefully dept.

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."

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  1. Mod parent funny by Joey7F · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Come on, take a friggin joke. That was hilarious (or should it be hilaryous?)!

    --Joey

  2. Has downloading music made you buy more music? by sbwoodside · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I want to know what slashdotters think about this. Personally, it definitely has. I like to be able to try out bands online and then if I like their stuff, I go and buy it. Not only does it ease my conscience, but also I can get nice clean copies of an entire album. And it helps me pick out the albums that I want too.

    So far I bought a bunch of Orbital and Orb, and a Dire Straits album (good old stuff) because of that, and avoided needlessly contributing and funds to the pockets of Fleetwood Mac ;-)

    simon

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