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Web-Only Album Wins Grammy
blamanj writes "Jazz artist Maria Schneider won a Grammy last night for her album 'Concert in the Garden.' What makes this unusual, according to CNET, is that she might be the first artist ever to win a Grammy for an album distributed solely on the Web. None of the sales were in record stores, and the album was financed through Artist Share."
I think that this is an attempt to legitimize the grammies. You know how these archaic lame-duck institutions are desperately trying to be "hip", they figure they can give a grammy to one of them there "world wide interweb" musicians so that they are new and cool like the internet is.
It's kind of like giving a grammy nomination to "blame canada" in the south park movie.
Speaking of lawyers and P2P...
A few months ago I had to attend a week-long training class that was taught by a lawyer. He and I got to be pals; eventually one of our conversations led us the mirky woods of music piracy. Long story short, he brought me his mp3 collection on many many DVDs. I brought my iPod in the next day for him to leech to his laptop. I got an email from him yesterday asking where to go now that Suprnova is defunct.
I got a chuckle from this lawyer who makes his living from the application of law and has absolutely no reseverations about pirating movies and music.
The problem arises that the IRS is making people believe that the statutes are written one way, when they are actually written as another.
It's easy to blame the IRS. Congress has the right and obligation to pull in the IRS if it's doing wrong, so apparently the IRS is doing what's right by Congress and the people who support Congress. Again, if someone forces the IRS to match what you think the statues mean, Congress will have to change the statues to mean what IRS believes they mean.
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