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Requiem For The Record Store
Rick Zeman writes "The Washington Post has an article (minimal registration required) in which record stores ('Daddy, what's a record?') are preparing for their own demises. They attribute this to the big box stores (Best Buy, etc), online retailers (Amazon, etc) and, you guessed it, downloading, both illegal and legal. 'The fat lady is warming up, but she's not exactly singing,' says one retailer, knowing that he still has a few more years until his business is totally moribund." Get it while it's hot -- soon, the Washington Post is switching to a more annoying registration system.
I think it's pretty good that non-digital formats are dying out, but we have to worry about hyper-DRM and the ever-annoying DMCA. This will annoy everyone and make some switch to P2P. In the end though, when KaZaA is shut down, we'll still have IRC, so I'm not worried.
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time to start a "no more" washington post articles! a pre-emptive strike (or is that a decapitation strike?)
All those links prove you are a slashwhore.
Injecting stale poop into one's ball-sack can occasionally have that effect, if the needle accidently pierces the testicle.
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Is this where the linux gay conspiracy has led to?
Santorum.
You mean people actually have anal sex? It's not just a disgusting idea invented by the Slashdot trolls?
Imminent Death of the Internet Predicted!
I'm generally not attracted to men, but my God something about Hitler just drives me absolutely batty! That dramatic sweep of hair across his brow, like he just tossed his head and there it fell, a cascade of black like the velvet curtain of night. I want him to take me on the hood of a King Tiger, its 1400 horsepower engine revving as he violates the virginal secrets of my Eagle's Nest.
I picture it like those glorious mass rallies the Nazis used to have. There he is lovingly pounding away at my second front while legions of goose-stepping Aryans march past and salute our union. Just as Hitler is about to empty his tiny ubermenschen into the expanse of my Liebe-raum a wing of Stukas will fly overhead, their sirens howling in synchronicity with the primal cries of pleasure from Der Fuehrer.
My god, what a man!
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nah. as long as they comply when they get a dmca notification to delete it, slashdot is fine.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
Until I read the post article on new registration requirements, I thought I was the only one using 90210 as my fake zip code ;)
No---I thought I was the only one using that zip-code when asked to register on all kinds of sites.
What the fuck? Right-wing republicans are having gay sex now? :(