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U.S. Sides with Record Labels Over DMCA Subpoena Powers
Injektilo* writes "The Washington Port is reporting
that the U.S. government sided with the recording industry in its dispute with Verizon Communications Inc. on Friday, saying a digital-copyright law invoked by
record labels to track down Internet song-swappers did not violate the U.S. Constitution." We've been following this case.
Oh, I'm a Republican
I got a small schling
I like to bomb niggahs
and make a lot o' bling
I got a bunch o' friends
in high up places
They helps me get dem
government graces
You think I'm smart
I just know who's who
I couldn't run a fruit stand
without the red white & blue
I'll drop some crap
about Jesus the Christ
You'll buy it all
and vote for me twice
'Fact, Jesus is comin'!
Real soon, now!
So we gotta prop up Israel
That ol' sacred cow
Don't need no history
Don't need no schoolin'
I got my ideology
To keep me a shootin'
Liberals! Faggots!
Commies and queers!
Socialist hippies
Full o' pussy tears
Propaganda's m'friend
But I calls it "fact"
Even though I don't read
'Cept for Chick tracts
Facts? No! Don't need em here!
We're conservatives! We work on FEAR!
Don't like what we say?
Well FUCK YOU, bud!
We'll shove it down yer throat
and tell ya it's good!
first post
Wow... a first post AND it got modded up. Guess today's my lucky day!
shoulda signed in... dang.
The U.S. "Founding Fathers" seem to have put a lot of thought and effort to the task of offering protection to the sovereign Individual against the overwealming power of the state, an instutional entity. Now the (Large) corporation seems to have taken the place of the state or at least assumed a status co-equal with the state as a peril to the natural rights and perogatives of the Individual. It seems that the Corporation may in the end be the more dangerous threat. The worst excesses of the State are, at least in theory, held in check by Constitution, Custom, and Law. The excesses of the corporation seem to be subject relatively little control in theory, and almost none in practice.
Folks, listen. Redistributing material for which you do not own the copyright isn't your natural right, it's not your Constitutional right, and it's not a business model either. I don't care what is your excuse.
...Or, continue being the Industry's biotch with a fat wallet and no willpower. Whichever path you choose, stop freakin' whining about it. Just stop, crybabies.
The fact that you owned the album in the 70s, but accidentally left it in the back window of your Dart Swinger does not give you the right to secure your own illegal copy. Just because the industry fixes prices at inflated levels does not grant you the right to secure an illegal copy. Just because one song out of 10 is decent does not give you the right to secure an illegal copy. Just because distributors are screwing artists with predatory contracts does not give you the right to secure an illegal copy.
I could take issue with not being able to listen/watch something that has some lame copy protection, for which you do have a legal copy. But, that's not the case here.
So, it's up to you. Stop listening to, and distrubting illegal copies, so the RIAA doesn't have legal fodder. Stop listening to radio payola pop garbage music, so you aren't brainwashed into consumer frenzy. Stop buying pop music from major labels, (here and abroad, and at any price.)