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Don't Waste Culture, Recycle Art

Posted by michael on from the plastics-and-metal-in-the-blue-bags dept.

Eddan Katz writes "Stepping up the copyright battle on behalf of artists, EFF is hosting an event tonight called Digital Mix at the Black Box in Oakland. Between laptop music, hip hop, and illegal art films, speakers will talk about the Creative Commons sampling license and EFF's "Let the Music Play" campaign."

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  1. FP?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:FP?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Who is the dumbfuck mod that mods stuff like this down. I mean it was already at 0, there is no need to waste mod points on making it any lower. Probably the same mod that modded this guy up. All he did was re-type the article it wasn't even slashdoted!

    2. Re:FP?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yeah that's right, keep wasting your mod-points. Meta-mods: make sure to mod this guy as 'unfair'. It's so annoying when people waste all their mod points on stupid stuff like this. There are legitimate times to down-mod someone, but when its already at 0, you're just wasting your points, and you would do better to let someone else have your mod points.

    3. Re:FP?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Its usually the "editors" (or should I say janitors), not moderators, who mod this stuff down. The janitors spend their time looking at gay porn, modding shit down, staring at goatsex, fantasizing about each other, and randomly selecting the worst possible articles from the submission bin with their thumbs (or fists, in Cmdr Taco's case), up their collective asses.

    4. Re:FP?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Like I said, it will never get in meta-moderation because it was modded down by a slashdot janitor. Notice how few crapflood posts you see in metamoderation?

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    2. Re:The Cheap Alternative to Subscriptions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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    5. Re:The Cheap Alternative to Subscriptions by dytin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hope you're proud of yourself you worthless karma whore.

  4. Re:GNAA IS ART! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you really want to support your organization, shouldn't you get an account karma whore for awhile, get your bonus point, and then post at +2?

  5. attendees beware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    geeks get shot in Oakland on a routine basis.