a little add-on to my post. if the internet hadn't grown like it has (and any good idea for that matter) then we'd still be sitting behind shitty computers with equally shitty modems and no-color screens hacking our way through rudimentary ways to communicate. while we're at it, why don't we block out the phone and electricity for people who we feel have nothing earth shattering to use these advances for. kind of weird that on a topic relating to free speech we found ourselves here...trying to limit what this case stands for by allowing only a select few to have access to this tool for communication.
I agree with a lot of what you say there....but, it's like your favorite band. Remember that band that you loved, loved to see in small clubs without the big crowds. They rocked. Then they got big and you didn't like going to the big shows because the intimacy wasn't there any more (it happened to me twice). Next thing you know, losers that didn't know shit about their music were suddenly all over the place...singing your songs!! It sucked. The internet's like that I guess. When anything's that powerful, it's impossible and even selfish to keep to yourself (after all, this site today is a result of that). There are always gonna be dorks who try (inadvertently pehraps) to spoil it for the rest but that's why you keep on searching and guess what..if those bands had't have made the big time, they probably wouldn't be playing today. Either that or they would be doing crappy renditions of earlier days. C'mon the internet has given a lot of people a lot of opportunity they never would have had. Ignore the losers and focus on the good stuff.
Perhaps this has been discussed. Is it crazy that Mattel brought on this lawsuit as a publicity stunt. This is the most attention they've received in quite some time I'm sure
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a little add-on to my post. if the internet hadn't grown like it has (and any good idea for that matter) then we'd still be sitting behind shitty computers with equally shitty modems and no-color screens hacking our way through rudimentary ways to communicate. while we're at it, why don't we block out the phone and electricity for people who we feel have nothing earth shattering to use these advances for. kind of weird that on a topic relating to free speech we found ourselves here...trying to limit what this case stands for by allowing only a select few to have access to this tool for communication.
I agree with a lot of what you say there....but, it's like your favorite band. Remember that band that you loved, loved to see in small clubs without the big crowds. They rocked. Then they got big and you didn't like going to the big shows because the intimacy wasn't there any more (it happened to me twice). Next thing you know, losers that didn't know shit about their music were suddenly all over the place...singing your songs!! It sucked. The internet's like that I guess. When anything's that powerful, it's impossible and even selfish to keep to yourself (after all, this site today is a result of that). There are always gonna be dorks who try (inadvertently pehraps) to spoil it for the rest but that's why you keep on searching and guess what..if those bands had't have made the big time, they probably wouldn't be playing today. Either that or they would be doing crappy renditions of earlier days. C'mon the internet has given a lot of people a lot of opportunity they never would have had. Ignore the losers and focus on the good stuff.
Perhaps this has been discussed. Is it crazy that Mattel brought on this lawsuit as a publicity stunt. This is the most attention they've received in quite some time I'm sure