I started using my.mp3.com after they disabled the "listen to your CDs" feature.
Yet I have hours of music stored there. This is all music that was put on mp3.com for public consumption by the artists themselves.
If you ask me the CD-access feature is the least interesting thing about my.mp3.com. The thing that is really cool about mp3.com is the access to a bajillion independent musical artists from around the whole world.
I've discovered bands and even whole genres of music that I love and would never have known about otherwise. Gretchen Lieberum, Planet Delirium, 12 Majestik -- I've currently got tracks by 43 different artists on my personal playlists.
Hell, I even made my own station so I could turn some of my friends on to this stuff:
I can share all this music freely. Copyright is not an issue, because the artists made the music available themselves.
All this quibbling about the issues surrounding copyrighted music at mp3.com and napster just bores me silly.
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As wiser people than I have observed, most of the anti-globalization movement is really against imperialism, not globalization per se.
I started using my.mp3.com after they disabled the "listen to your CDs" feature.
Yet I have hours of music stored there. This is all music that was put on mp3.com for public consumption by the artists themselves.
If you ask me the CD-access feature is the least interesting thing about my.mp3.com. The thing that is really cool about mp3.com is the access to a bajillion independent musical artists from around the whole world.
I've discovered bands and even whole genres of music that I love and would never have known about otherwise. Gretchen Lieberum, Planet Delirium, 12 Majestik -- I've currently got tracks by 43 different artists on my personal playlists.
Hell, I even made my own station so I could turn some of my friends on to this stuff:
I can share all this music freely. Copyright is not an issue, because the artists made the music available themselves.
All this quibbling about the issues surrounding copyrighted music at mp3.com and napster just bores me silly.
Hear, hear. We all know Nader won't win. So arguments about how he would actually do as president are kinda off the mark.
The idea in the "Screed" that Nader is too much of a gadfly to be presidential is exactly the reason I'm voting for him.
A vote for Nader is a vote for the Greens, and that's what I'm really interested in: a viable third party that speaks to the issues I care about.