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DRM-Free Music Spells Trouble?
digitaldame2 writes "Many opponents of DRM have been overjoyed at recent efforts to free media from its grip. But PC Mag Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff believes the whole world has gone mad. His view is that our digital economy will collapse this way, and it could be followed by countless others. 'The music industry's moves have been terrified reactions to staunch the bleeding of millions of dollars in revenue down the drain. For maybe a year, music companies thought they had the situation under control, but then album sales tumbled. Retailers, musicians, and some music-industry execs thought DRM was the culprit, and they soon joined the chorus of consumers calling for its head. Now consumers are getting their wish, and the music industry will continue to crumble. Giving up control of content and giving it away free are not rational ideas in a market economy, yet everyone's cheering.'" Is the removal of restrictions from our media really that big a deal?
The derivation of a word is not the same as its meaning. For instance, the South African equivalent to "nigger" is "kaffir", an Arabic word roughly akin to "infidel" - yet when Afrikaaners used it, they certainly weren't referring to their darker-skinned countrymen's lack of faith.
Stupid political correctness. I find it insane that some people would find 'black person' offensive. Like if I was picking someone out in a crowd I'd use hair colour, skin colour, height, whatever, and yet sometimes find myself scared to say 'black person' because of all this political correctness bullshit. It's crazy.. over here (in the UK) schoolteachers aren't allowed to call blackboards blackboards. I have no problem with marker boards being called whiteboards, so why the big deal about blackboards? If I was black I think I'd find it more offensive that someone has taken it upon themselves to 'protect' black people from this abomination of a word, that I doubt would have been offensive to me in the first place. Anyway, rant over. I wish someone would take out those morons that keep doing the "nigger posts" and spank their asses with flaming hot pokers..
which is totally what she said