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Edison to Hillary Rosen - Parts 3, 4 and 5
An anonymous reader writes "MP3newswire.net has the follow up to the first two chapters of its series "Thomas Edison, Intellectual Property and the Recording Industry". These articles show that the controllers of the media bullied folk back then as they do now - and it didn't work. The last installments of the 5 part series include; Chapter 3 -- The Industry Evolves, Chapter 4 -- Copyright and the Grand Illusion, and closes with Chapter 5 -- Bringing the Past Into the Present"
Well when you think about it if your company can bribe politicians into making laws favorable to you isn't that just the free market in action?
If you put a restriction on the sale of laws and/or politicians you are just hampering the market in action.
you could almost say that history is repeating itself.
I mean, here you have Edison, circa 1900; and miss rosen (whom I am 95% certain is sdem) today.
You can barely tell them apart!
Rosen and the RIAA haven't learned much from Edison, since they're still in the dark...
"Much work is lost, for the lack of a little more." -Edward H. Harriman
You can trap a monkey very easily with a jar and some peanuts...
Try it sometime, you'll finder it tougher than you think. Even if you manage to finally trap the monkey, you have to remember to put in airholes.
Poor monkey.