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EFF Ad Campaign On File Swapping
miladus writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation is launching an ad campaign
to
counter the RIAA's lawsuits about file
swapping. There are more details available at the File Sharing: It's Music To Our Ears subsite." The press release kicking off this campaign says that "EFF's Let the Music Play campaign provides alternatives to the RIAA's litigation barrage, details EFF's efforts to defend peer-to-peer file sharing, and makes it easy for individuals to write members of Congress."
Did anyone else notice that the EFF Executive Director, the person who is trying to encourage file sharing, is named Shari Steele? I cannot think of a a better name for a person defending sharing, Except Mr. P. Too Pee, that is.
Karma: Can there be a void?
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Sure it will. Thry're realize how good a deal it is, like the rest of us working stiffs.
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It's about time Pirates started acting like them.
Rather than trying to sue people into submission...
Suing is the American way! Hey, you don't like it? Sue me.
--- I'm Green Hornet's sidekick not Inspector Clouseau's!
The network will become fully sentient soon.
All the indications are clear. Within 10 years time, the consciousness of the people comprising the communications of the planet are combining into a common intelligence.
It is not only predictable, it is now inevitable. Just as Moore's Law predicts the doubling of circuit density every 18 months, the doubling of communications links proceeds at a geometric rate.
Copyright will fall to the network. The intelligence of the network is directly proportionate to the number of unique voices to which any individual may hear at any time. Copyright imposes a cost to hear each voice, as this cost reduces to zero, the entirety of the connected human population will hear one another, at will.
When this happens, a new Renaissance will flourish. Art will be promoted on quality, not on its profitability to the distributors. For if distribution costs nothing, there is no incentive to promote the latest Britney Spears album to the masses of people who do not know any better.
When you can hear anything, you will want to hear the best music you can find. Friends will recommend to you what they enjoy, and you will be able to listen at once and form your own opinions.
Artists will prosper under the new system. People will gladly pay people to produce quality, to perform, to entertain and enlighten them. And without the middleman distributors, 100% of the money going to such things will enrich the artist.
This is the new world, it will be here soon.
Peace and love, y'all
What is the Matrix?
RIAA: Now that millions upon millions of people have been exposed to the pleasures of filetrading... STOP IT!!!
[holds gun to own head]
RIAA: Don't make me pull the trigger now... Put down the MP3's or I swear I'll do something that I will regret...
Looks like the RIAA has started a counter-campaign.
Only if we get to mod the "copyright violation != stealing" posts down at the same time. Honestly, you guys sound like a broken record.
Man, I wish that copyright violation == stealing!
I could just see the news now:
It was revealed today that a pirate has stolen every N'Sync song ever made. It appears that he downloaded every song thousands of times, and then, to everyone's horror, deleted them. "It's hard to believe that all that music is gone forever" cried one fan.
Can I mod that as Funny just because you used the word "recockulus"?
Macintosh humor! MacComedy.com
To paraphrase Harry Enfield, though -
If that Robbie Williams turned up at my wedding, and started to croon, I'd say Oy, Williams - what do you think you're doing? Crooning like Sinatra's all well and good, but you're shit - go back to Stoke and die.
But that's just me.
oh brave new world, that has such people in it!