Ya don't need to live near ground zero. I don't feel any different because of a policy or practice or not. An event like that can happen anywhere, and it has. It doesn't take 2 years to orchestrate a disaster on a large number of people. It may, to make it symbolic. But hell, any fool can pack a big boom surprise and walk into grand central station. A little more planning than 2 or 3 months and a volatile chem or nuke fac can really waste a population. I'm not sure if I buy any of it. If they really wanted to strike terror in everyone, I think we would see relentless shit happening everywhere. What do they have? A team of like 3 people or something? If they are as big as the feds make it with 100s of sleepers, whats with all the slo go? Sounds like negotiations are being made under our noses. Either that or someone needs a reason for a budget.
That 2-3 years planning I heard about I think was all coordiantion of "evidence", who to point the finger to and burning documents.
Wow people make a career outa this stuff huh? May want to try to get out of the house more often. Ya know there's a whole beautiful world full of sunshine and happiness out there boys and girls. It's just waiting for you to take a juicy bite out of. Keep that smile a goin fella. Umkay?
Or atleast the gov doesn't have much competency with what they use.
It's the corporations that have a $ behind what they need to do that worry me. It's amazing what those munchkins can accomplish if you wave a dollar in front of their nose.
Section 3 2A a list of all contracts, memoranda of understanding, or other agreements entered into by the department or agency, or any other national security, intelligence, or law enforcement element under the jurisdiction of the department or agency for the use of, access to, or analysis of databases that were obtained from or remain under the control of a non-Federal entity, or that contain information that was acquired initially by another department or agency of the Federal Government for the purposes other than national security, intelligence, or law enforcement.
"Uh, correct sir, we didn't provide a report on the use of this information because it was previously used for national security, sir. We are obligated to report if its for purposes other than national security, intelligence, or law enforcement. Yes sir, toilet paper purchase behavior is taken very seriously in the intelligence community, sir."
If you don't care about DNC, don't care about telemarketers, and have no problem with letting the answering machine pickup all the calls, then...
I guess you have no problem.
My apologies for missing the point but, exactly what was the point of your post then? And why are you even reading this thread? Much less posting anything here?
Can someone mod the previous poster flamebait or troll please.
Nice. We're supporting idiots for an economy of idiots.
Single white female seeking Darwin to share mass wide extinction of idiots. Must be indescriminate and compassionless. Love of better gene pools a plus. Reply SASE.
You should have every right to call me if you want to. Just as I have every right to put up a fence to prevent you.
Companies don't have rights. The constitution and the amendments, and for that matter most laws that govern human behavior don't apply to corporations. When did we get such a silly notion?
A telemarketer wants to sue me or the person who administrates the DNC for blocking his free speech? Go ahead. Just make sure you make your lawsuit personal.
Mr.Iwannabeabitch vs Mr.Bitchslapper.
Not Telenagger Inc. vs MrBitchslapper. Nor Telenagger Inc. vs DNC.org
Devil's advocate would have me say that telemarketers are being denied their right to free speech.
To this I would have to say, free speech is for individuals. Let the telejockey file the lawsuit specific to the call he could not make against the person he/she could not talk to.
The bigger question is how did we make laws that allow companies to constitute entities that have the right to sue? Companies don't make decisions. Companies don't sue or hire lawyers. Let's cut the bullshit. People in companies hire lawyers. People in companies sue. What a load of complete crap that a lawyer can represent a company's interest. Companies have interests? They have hobbies too? How do you justify a corporation having rights the way people do? Did I hurt the corporations feeling? Was there emotional damages that the company can sue for? Where did we go so awefully wrong? Ever since we allowed corporations to embody the concepts that people do, we've had problems. Allowing people to hide behind the corporate veil to do that which the person would never do if there was accountability directly to that person's behavior and actions. Has it been this way ever since we climbed out of the trees?
It would be difficult, but well worth it if we could enforce intelligence testing and create a Do Not Sell registry comprising of all people that fail.
Personally, if it is created I would also recommend a Call All Others registry that notifies everyone else who and where these idiots live anytime they purchase anything so we can go over to their house and smack them in the back of the head.
"This truly is a case of regulatory overkill," said Tim Searcy, ATA executive director. "This [telemarketing] truly is a case of pushy sales overkill" said mobileskimo, Annoyed phone owner.
The telemarketing industry estimates the do-not-call list could cut its business in half, costing it up to $50 billion in sales each year. Go make money providing society with something usefull.
Implementing the list could also eliminate up to two million jobs, the ATA said. Stop getting paid for being a schmuck and go do something usefull.
Quality Service Management Don't get me started on this one.
And we wonder why our economy sucks when people wake up and smell the garbage they've been tossing around. Well, duh, if we're not producing anything and just making shit up to sell to each other, how do you expect anything of real value to be added to our world?
In the days just prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks, the stocks of United and American Airlines were shorted by parties unknown.
So let me get this straight. They have no idea who they are making the payout for stock trades? The government doesn't want their tax from the capital gain?
If thats the case, how do I sign up for a stock account where I can be "parties unknown", and not pay taxes?
That's odd. Maybe you need to look for better fans? My case (through 2 upgrades since its original 500Mhz installation) still has the original fans and only now one of them is starting to rattle (just add oil). I smoke, and live quite a filthy lifestyle where vacuuming and dusting was a fad. It's probably been 3 or more years and they still work just fine, after removing the wads of dusty from the fan grill. I might suspect maybe the stability of the power feed may impact the longevity of the motor on the fan, like anything else that's powered.
I imagine that a heat pipe would last much much longer than any fan. For a start they have almost no moving parts (well, no fiction really), and most of all no _exposed_ moving parts. (The pipe contains a liquid that moves/pumps heat by changing to a gas and back again.)
Remember that the heat sink efficiency will be FAR more sensitive to dust, since it relies so heavily on the surface to transfer heat. So, while they have the potential of being a "better" cooling device, they also have the potential to be a greater risk. A fan dies, its more likely you'll notice the noise difference. Heatsink gets choked, you'll notice when something is burning. I recommend you double check that a temperature monitor works properly after having one installed. (How do you test if you're temp monitor notifies correctly of overheats? Waste an extra card by burning it out? LOL)
So you are saying the people who create or make a living from music, movies, games, books, pictures, software, etc. should not have any rights with respect to their works?
I'm sorry. Did you have the misperception that people, like Britney Spears, who "create" music for a living actually own the copyright?
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but corporations like the ones represented by the RIAA, are the ones that own the artists, the music, the rights and make the bucks. Let's cut the bullshit. You want realism? I could care less for artists trying to distribute their songs by the millions and want to be driven in limousines. I'd care to pitch a few dollars in return for a CD that might have sold a few hundred or thousand to a struggling artists whose right it is to receive it.
If we were to overturn every attempt the MPAA made at controlling piracy, do you think making movies would become unprofitable for the movie houses to continue? Take a look at box office figures and tell me with a straight face that you expect someone to feel guilty for pirating that movie.
This is all about greed.
The more nails RIAA or MPAA put in the coffin of piracy, the larger their profit. With piracy on the loose, they're still making a profit. Just not as much. I have no problem with RIAA or MPAA chasing profits, its what they do, its what I expect them to do. However, I do mind it when someone tells me I can't view it on my computer because the encoding is now only supported by RIAA approved DVD players (they tried to do this a few months back).
One last question: It was never a problem with cassette tapes. And EVERYONE I know copied cassette tapes. Why CDs? Maybe because people have gotten wise to the fact the cost of CDs are pennies, yet their price is $15? The cost for administration, promotions, contracts, packaging, etc., are not much different than cassettes (infact I'll guess that cassettes are more costly to manufacture), are they?
Don't take this personally, but it is people like you who give the rest of us who want looser restrictions a bad name. We need realism, not extremism.
What are you smoking? ofcourse people take this personally. Keep making those compromises and Charmin will have a buttcheek identification print everytime you wipe your ass. Corporations go for MAXIMUM PROFIT. Extreme greed is what allows these corporations to become as powerful as they are. Bill may have made his windows half-assed, but do you think he was sloppy about his business practices? He went for the throat. And look at him now. On top of the world. With all of us chained to windows (yours truly included).
Wow, that was a good long read. He's on the ball with the answers and writes as well as I would expect.
However, most of the questions and subsequently the answers are quite technical (not technical as in gadgetry but technical in process). While the details of implementing the philosphy are all there and the process looks good, we haven't traveled back up the chain to review the philosphy first.
As many have pointed out, why is copyright/IP infringement a criminal investigation? How have we come to place criminal penalties for issues that impact people's financial security to be quantifiably comparative to those of real harm, emotionally and physically as in the case of rape, murder or even aggravated assult with weapon? How can we justify prosecution of copyright infringement destroying the stock value of a multimillion $ company by destroying the life of an mp3 leeching headbanger?
Correct me if I misrepresent the perception that most people would think penalties for criminal activities are meant to deter menaces to society at large. We imprison burglars and rapist because we believe the behavior to repeat with other victims that would suffer emotional distress and physical harm. MP3s?
Would I be inaccurate to suggest that restitution and compensation for someone's greed encourages corporations to nudge the DOJ to review something more closely? There are no restitution or compensation for a victim inflicted rape or murder.
And M$ won't be patenting this any time soon, the greeks used this even BC.
Yea, but MS will copyright the "inkblot" password mechanism.
BTW, all those flames about it being or not being secure, I'd have to say this is secure. If you haven't thought about it for more than 5 minutes, then you might be tempted to jump to the conclusion that the permutations are limited due to common ideas that translate to common words or phrases. Common phrases can consist of any number of common words to describe the same thing. The "flying man" I interpreted as "man with green wings" which is the two letters "MS". I almost used "Superfly Liftoff" which is "SF". I'm pretty sure it would be far simpler to brute force 26 letter combinations than design some obtuse thesaurus driven cracker. Not to mention the fact that you'd need someone to key in the initial interpretation. Based on psychology, your average cracker may turn out to be "inkblot" different than the average computer user. I could go on and on.
"What's the lowly webpage designer going to do when *gasp* they want to change a page? Are they going to have to go down into C source, and have to change it? The webpage designer probably is going to really screw things up becuase the page needs changing."
No. The webdesigner will create a new page from scratch and toss out the C.
er... Last time I checked a modem jack is a phone jack. A modem uses a phone line. I would imagine it's only a matter of finding software that will record what the modem hears.
The only problem I might imagine is if the modem on whatever gadget you are looking at doesn't listen to voice frequencies. But I'm not too bright on the frequency stuff, so I may be completely off.
This was buried deep in the thread but I think it's a very important point that gets right to the heart of the ART, and hence furthermore allows us to re-examine copyright.
Anonymous Coward wrote...
OK since we can't shoot for the novel. Lets go for what could be.
Everyone take out a pad of paper and pencil. Now make a list of items that are created by artists. Next make a list of items not created by artists. Now imagine a world without the items on the first list. Pretty sterile isn't it? That's the world the attitude behind file sharing will create. Today it's movies, music, and books, but as technology improves the list will grow ever bigger because the attitude is insatiable. Now what self-respecting artist will want to raise their kids into that kind of environment? To feed the unrelenting attitude[2]. If people think the IT crisis[1] was something to moan about? They haven't seen anything yet.
Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the world that greed and selfishness built. Admire it before it collapses from it's own unsustainability.
[1] What! Writing code isn't artistic? [2] Shades of communism. You work for the P2P'ers. They take everything, leaving you with just the "tangible" shirt on your back.
Er.. you've jumped to conclusions.
P2P sharing causes items that are created by artists to disappear?
Please correct me if I'm wrong (and I hope I am), but are you implying that without profit motive artists won't create art?
What I might believe P2P will remove "art" creations that are largely "commercial" and "grande" powered by big bucks and big distributions. Maybe. I think there's still enough profit in these indeustries even with P2P. They're just greedy for more $$. Thanks, but I can do without Matrix and Britney Spears. As for paintings, sculptures, and folk music, I don't think anything will ever kill that. Not even war.
Greed is what is causing the entire debate in the first place. Take away copyright altogether and what happens? Corporations no longer have a vested interest to progress "art" to stupid, boundless, ridiculous levels of mass distribution, profit collection all in the name of "culture". Do I really consider TV programs, movies, and pop-music to be "art"? Without corporate backing Art returns to its fundamental roots. Capable of being identified with by its people. Providing the service I would like to believe is its true purpose. Communicating personal meaning from artists to audience.
How much of the music that is created today will endure 2 generations? How many music compositions(and art in general) that were created before the invention of copyright have endured to this day, and will for generations to come?
We have CLEARLY taken the wrong road to preserve ART. Much worse we have taken the wrong road to creating NEW ART.
Slashdot Mirror
Too late.
BTW, even if it was brought about by gov, its still a coporation, as this analysis of the Constitution shows.
Ya don't need to live near ground zero. I don't feel any different because of a policy or practice or not. An event like that can happen anywhere, and it has. It doesn't take 2 years to orchestrate a disaster on a large number of people. It may, to make it symbolic. But hell, any fool can pack a big boom surprise and walk into grand central station. A little more planning than 2 or 3 months and a volatile chem or nuke fac can really waste a population. I'm not sure if I buy any of it. If they really wanted to strike terror in everyone, I think we would see relentless shit happening everywhere. What do they have? A team of like 3 people or something? If they are as big as the feds make it with 100s of sleepers, whats with all the slo go? Sounds like negotiations are being made under our noses. Either that or someone needs a reason for a budget.
That 2-3 years planning I heard about I think was all coordiantion of "evidence", who to point the finger to and burning documents.
Wow people make a career outa this stuff huh? May want to try to get out of the house more often. Ya know there's a whole beautiful world full of sunshine and happiness out there boys and girls. It's just waiting for you to take a juicy bite out of. Keep that smile a goin fella. Umkay?
Or atleast the gov doesn't have much competency with what they use.
It's the corporations that have a $ behind what they need to do that worry me. It's amazing what those munchkins can accomplish if you wave a dollar in front of their nose.
The report all hinges on this section...
Section 3 2A a list of all contracts, memoranda of understanding, or other agreements entered into by the department or agency, or any other national security, intelligence, or law enforcement element under the jurisdiction of the department or agency for the use of, access to, or analysis of databases that were obtained from or remain under the control of a non-Federal entity, or that contain information that was acquired initially by another department or agency of the Federal Government for the purposes other than national security, intelligence, or law enforcement.
"Uh, correct sir, we didn't provide a report on the use of this information because it was previously used for national security, sir. We are obligated to report if its for purposes other than national security, intelligence, or law enforcement. Yes sir, toilet paper purchase behavior is taken very seriously in the intelligence community, sir."
If you don't care about DNC, don't care about telemarketers, and have no problem with letting the answering machine pickup all the calls, then...
I guess you have no problem.
My apologies for missing the point but, exactly what was the point of your post then? And why are you even reading this thread? Much less posting anything here?
Can someone mod the previous poster flamebait or troll please.
Apparently, as BlueFrog has pointed out here
Thank you. This is what I was looking for.
Free the Coporations! Emancipation for Soul-less! All men, women and coporations were created equal!
I can hear an old man sitting in one of the benches in the courtroom mumbling...
"Let the sillyness begin sigh Hey Ralph, wanna go up to the lake and go fishing?"
Nice. We're supporting idiots for an economy of idiots.
Single white female seeking Darwin to share mass wide extinction of idiots. Must be indescriminate and compassionless. Love of better gene pools a plus. Reply SASE.
Acually, sex slaves would be a poor fit. You may want smaller mouths for two reasons.
[1] You don't want them to talk much
[2] Increased friction
Slashdot troll requires humour and typing skills.
Truck driver requires driving permits, most of these students can't get one yet.
You should have every right to call me if you want to. Just as I have every right to put up a fence to prevent you.
Companies don't have rights. The constitution and the amendments, and for that matter most laws that govern human behavior don't apply to corporations. When did we get such a silly notion?
A telemarketer wants to sue me or the person who administrates the DNC for blocking his free speech? Go ahead. Just make sure you make your lawsuit personal.
Mr.Iwannabeabitch vs Mr.Bitchslapper.
Not
Telenagger Inc. vs MrBitchslapper.
Nor
Telenagger Inc. vs DNC.org
Hi, I'm calling you to tell you about...
Can I get your phone number?
Sure. 1-800-55...
No, your home phone number?
Wha... why do you want my...
So I can call you at home. It's only fair, no?
Devil's advocate would have me say that telemarketers are being denied their right to free speech.
To this I would have to say, free speech is for individuals. Let the telejockey file the lawsuit specific to the call he could not make against the person he/she could not talk to.
The bigger question is how did we make laws that allow companies to constitute entities that have the right to sue? Companies don't make decisions. Companies don't sue or hire lawyers. Let's cut the bullshit. People in companies hire lawyers. People in companies sue. What a load of complete crap that a lawyer can represent a company's interest. Companies have interests? They have hobbies too? How do you justify a corporation having rights the way people do? Did I hurt the corporations feeling? Was there emotional damages that the company can sue for? Where did we go so awefully wrong? Ever since we allowed corporations to embody the concepts that people do, we've had problems. Allowing people to hide behind the corporate veil to do that which the person would never do if there was accountability directly to that person's behavior and actions. Has it been this way ever since we climbed out of the trees?
It would be difficult, but well worth it if we could enforce intelligence testing and create a Do Not Sell registry comprising of all people that fail.
Personally, if it is created I would also recommend a Call All Others registry that notifies everyone else who and where these idiots live anytime they purchase anything so we can go over to their house and smack them in the back of the head.
"This truly is a case of regulatory overkill," said Tim Searcy, ATA executive director.
"This [telemarketing] truly is a case of pushy sales overkill" said mobileskimo, Annoyed phone owner.
The telemarketing industry estimates the do-not-call list could cut its business in half, costing it up to $50 billion in sales each year.
Go make money providing society with something usefull.
Implementing the list could also eliminate up to two million jobs, the ATA said.
Stop getting paid for being a schmuck and go do something usefull.
Quality Service Management
Don't get me started on this one.
And we wonder why our economy sucks when people wake up and smell the garbage they've been tossing around. Well, duh, if we're not producing anything and just making shit up to sell to each other, how do you expect anything of real value to be added to our world?
In the days just prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks, the stocks of United and American Airlines were shorted by parties unknown.
So let me get this straight. They have no idea who they are making the payout for stock trades? The government doesn't want their tax from the capital gain?
If thats the case, how do I sign up for a stock account where I can be "parties unknown", and not pay taxes?
all fans need to be replaced every year or so.
That's odd. Maybe you need to look for better fans? My case (through 2 upgrades since its original 500Mhz installation) still has the original fans and only now one of them is starting to rattle (just add oil). I smoke, and live quite a filthy lifestyle where vacuuming and dusting was a fad. It's probably been 3 or more years and they still work just fine, after removing the wads of dusty from the fan grill. I might suspect maybe the stability of the power feed may impact the longevity of the motor on the fan, like anything else that's powered.
I imagine that a heat pipe would last much much longer than any fan. For a start they have almost no moving parts (well, no fiction really), and most of all no _exposed_ moving parts. (The pipe contains a liquid that moves/pumps heat by changing to a gas and back again.)
Remember that the heat sink efficiency will be FAR more sensitive to dust, since it relies so heavily on the surface to transfer heat. So, while they have the potential of being a "better" cooling device, they also have the potential to be a greater risk. A fan dies, its more likely you'll notice the noise difference. Heatsink gets choked, you'll notice when something is burning. I recommend you double check that a temperature monitor works properly after having one installed. (How do you test if you're temp monitor notifies correctly of overheats? Waste an extra card by burning it out? LOL)
So you are saying the people who create or make a living from music, movies, games, books, pictures, software, etc. should not have any rights with respect to their works?
I'm sorry. Did you have the misperception that people, like Britney Spears, who "create" music for a living actually own the copyright?
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but corporations like the ones represented by the RIAA, are the ones that own the artists, the music, the rights and make the bucks. Let's cut the bullshit. You want realism? I could care less for artists trying to distribute their songs by the millions and want to be driven in limousines. I'd care to pitch a few dollars in return for a CD that might have sold a few hundred or thousand to a struggling artists whose right it is to receive it.
If we were to overturn every attempt the MPAA made at controlling piracy, do you think making movies would become unprofitable for the movie houses to continue? Take a look at box office figures and tell me with a straight face that you expect someone to feel guilty for pirating that movie.
This is all about greed.
The more nails RIAA or MPAA put in the coffin of piracy, the larger their profit. With piracy on the loose, they're still making a profit. Just not as much. I have no problem with RIAA or MPAA chasing profits, its what they do, its what I expect them to do. However, I do mind it when someone tells me I can't view it on my computer because the encoding is now only supported by RIAA approved DVD players (they tried to do this a few months back).
One last question: It was never a problem with cassette tapes. And EVERYONE I know copied cassette tapes. Why CDs? Maybe because people have gotten wise to the fact the cost of CDs are pennies, yet their price is $15? The cost for administration, promotions, contracts, packaging, etc., are not much different than cassettes (infact I'll guess that cassettes are more costly to manufacture), are they?
Don't take this personally, but it is people like you who give the rest of us who want looser restrictions a bad name. We need realism, not extremism.
What are you smoking? ofcourse people take this personally. Keep making those compromises and Charmin will have a buttcheek identification print everytime you wipe your ass. Corporations go for MAXIMUM PROFIT. Extreme greed is what allows these corporations to become as powerful as they are. Bill may have made his windows half-assed, but do you think he was sloppy about his business practices? He went for the throat. And look at him now. On top of the world. With all of us chained to windows (yours truly included).
Wow, that was a good long read. He's on the ball with the answers and writes as well as I would expect.
However, most of the questions and subsequently the answers are quite technical (not technical as in gadgetry but technical in process). While the details of implementing the philosphy are all there and the process looks good, we haven't traveled back up the chain to review the philosphy first.
As many have pointed out, why is copyright/IP infringement a criminal investigation? How have we come to place criminal penalties for issues that impact people's financial security to be quantifiably comparative to those of real harm, emotionally and physically as in the case of rape, murder or even aggravated assult with weapon? How can we justify prosecution of copyright infringement destroying the stock value of a multimillion $ company by destroying the life of an mp3 leeching headbanger?
Correct me if I misrepresent the perception that most people would think penalties for criminal activities are meant to deter menaces to society at large. We imprison burglars and rapist because we believe the behavior to repeat with other victims that would suffer emotional distress and physical harm. MP3s?
Would I be inaccurate to suggest that restitution and compensation for someone's greed encourages corporations to nudge the DOJ to review something more closely? There are no restitution or compensation for a victim inflicted rape or murder.
How do you equate these?
working with radioactive material
Ah. That explains...
Rumsfield: What do you mean these slashdot terrorist have no oil?
CmdrTaco: They don't even have a country.
Rumsfield: Oh well that's just dandy! Now I got two excurisions I need to explain!
CmdrTaco: They have karma...
Rumsfield: "karma"? Is it worth anything?
And M$ won't be patenting this any time soon, the greeks used this even BC.
Yea, but MS will copyright the "inkblot" password mechanism.
BTW, all those flames about it being or not being secure, I'd have to say this is secure. If you haven't thought about it for more than 5 minutes, then you might be tempted to jump to the conclusion that the permutations are limited due to common ideas that translate to common words or phrases. Common phrases can consist of any number of common words to describe the same thing. The "flying man" I interpreted as "man with green wings" which is the two letters "MS". I almost used "Superfly Liftoff" which is "SF". I'm pretty sure it would be far simpler to brute force 26 letter combinations than design some obtuse thesaurus driven cracker. Not to mention the fact that you'd need someone to key in the initial interpretation. Based on psychology, your average cracker may turn out to be "inkblot" different than the average computer user. I could go on and on.
No. The webdesigner will create a new page from scratch and toss out the C.
er... Last time I checked a modem jack is a phone jack. A modem uses a phone line. I would imagine it's only a matter of finding software that will record what the modem hears.
The only problem I might imagine is if the modem on whatever gadget you are looking at doesn't listen to voice frequencies. But I'm not too bright on the frequency stuff, so I may be completely off.
Anonymous Coward wrote...
Er.. you've jumped to conclusions.
P2P sharing causes items that are created by artists to disappear?
Please correct me if I'm wrong (and I hope I am), but are you implying that without profit motive artists won't create art?
What I might believe P2P will remove "art" creations that are largely "commercial" and "grande" powered by big bucks and big distributions. Maybe. I think there's still enough profit in these indeustries even with P2P. They're just greedy for more $$. Thanks, but I can do without Matrix and Britney Spears. As for paintings, sculptures, and folk music, I don't think anything will ever kill that. Not even war.
Greed is what is causing the entire debate in the first place. Take away copyright altogether and what happens? Corporations no longer have a vested interest to progress "art" to stupid, boundless, ridiculous levels of mass distribution, profit collection all in the name of "culture". Do I really consider TV programs, movies, and pop-music to be "art"? Without corporate backing Art returns to its fundamental roots. Capable of being identified with by its people. Providing the service I would like to believe is its true purpose. Communicating personal meaning from artists to audience.
How much of the music that is created today will endure 2 generations? How many music compositions(and art in general) that were created before the invention of copyright have endured to this day, and will for generations to come?
We have CLEARLY taken the wrong road to preserve ART. Much worse we have taken the wrong road to creating NEW ART.