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Amazon's Special Thank-You
theodp writes "To commemorate its 10th Anniversary, Amazon.com announced that on July 16th customers will receive a special thank-you - a concert featuring Bob Dylan and Norah Jones. Of course, customers will be squinting at streaming video while Amazon employees actually attend the concert at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, but isn't it the thought that counts?"
Man if only i could be that lucky to be a amazon.com customer!
I gave the bat commader a high five.
" Tambourine man....(buffering)...(buffering)....play a song...(buffering)...(buffering)...for me."
That's not a bandwidth problem, you're listening to the William Shatner cover.
Amazon puts up a free concert, and Slashdot idiots go nuclear. What a surprise.
This isn't deserving of thanks or, 'gee look how kind they are' -- I think of it as an extra service provided by a company. Some will enjoy it, some won't. Why is it deserving of such scorn?
When AOL did this several times over the past years, with the Rolling Stones, for example, did that deserve scorn?
Music is highly subjective, but it's the height of adolescent immaturity to slag off Bob Dylan and Norah Jones as crap if you don't like their style of music.
Get the fuck over yourselves.
(It was time to burn the karma anyway)
-Stu
Personally, I think that copyrights on music should last until the writer dies, and they should only be given to the song writer.
Let me say that again. You never never never want to base the length of copyright on someones death. There are enough things that makes passing on hard enough. We don't need to put the added stress on people with the idea that "every day I stay alive is another residue check my family can receive." Or worse "if we unplug dad from the respirator out estate has to give up our copyright." Linking financial matters (even more than we already have) with the process of dying is inhuman. This is one of those cases where something sounds like a good idea but the consequences are disgusting.