The money quote is this: "I followed the law. And because I followed the law, at the end of the day, the policemen's case is going to hold strong."
She wasn't "protecting the library", she was protecting the case! If she had "cooperated" and just given the information the case could have been tossed for illegally obtained evidence. If nothing else it would have been grounds for an appeal.
She did the right thing and they can not even recognize it.
It's quite in keeping with the spirit of the license. Read some of the "Prime Palaver" articles in their free library (http://www.baen.com/library). Jim Baen distributes free ebooks like crack. "The first hit is free, little one...". And he is aware of the CD ISO images being distributed, and has no objections. IIRC a couple of the people hosting them even asked for permission to be certain.
186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
Hell, even if this is real, radio stations have always made their own playlists. Is this really any different from a station manager that hates
Bob Dylan and never plays any of his songs? What are you going to do, pass "equal time" legislation so that every song must be played once before you can ever repeat one?
I think this falls under the category of "overreacting".
Heck, just judging just from the titles that kikta posted, I'd say this _is_ a case of a network manager (one step up from station manager) just making his own personal preferences into policy.
If you don't like his preferences, tune in to another radio station. It ain't censorship as long as there are alternatives (which is why we can't let the government pull this stuff off) -- it's just free expression on the part of the corporate wonk in charge of playlists.
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Hey, you gotta let there be some surprises!
Try some Ringo (no, not Starr). Start with "A Hymn Before Battle". Alien centaroids, battle-suits, enough yellow blood splashed about to paint a city.
The money quote is this: "I followed the law. And because I followed the law, at the end of the day, the policemen's case is going to hold strong."
She wasn't "protecting the library", she was protecting the case! If she had "cooperated" and just given the information the case could have been tossed for illegally obtained evidence. If nothing else it would have been grounds for an appeal.
She did the right thing and they can not even recognize it.
It's quite in keeping with the spirit of the license. Read some of the "Prime Palaver" articles in their free library (http://www.baen.com/library). Jim Baen distributes free ebooks like crack. "The first hit is free, little one...". And he is aware of the CD ISO images being distributed, and has no objections. IIRC a couple of the people hosting them even asked for permission to be certain.
186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
Hell, even if this is real, radio stations have always made their own playlists. Is this really any different from a station manager that hates
Bob Dylan and never plays any of his songs? What are you going to do, pass "equal time" legislation so that every song must be played once before you can ever repeat one?
I think this falls under the category of "overreacting".
Heck, just judging just from the titles that kikta posted, I'd say this _is_ a case of a network manager (one step up from station manager) just making his own personal preferences into policy.
If you don't like his preferences, tune in to another radio station. It ain't censorship as long as there are alternatives (which is why we can't let the government pull this stuff off) -- it's just free expression on the part of the corporate wonk in charge of playlists.
-rmh