> Could Google censorship be happening in the U.S. too?
Yes.
And yes, Chinese regulations will require us to remove some sensitive information from our search results. When we do so, we'll disclose this to users, just as we already do in those rare instances where we alter results in order to comply with local laws in France, Germany and the U.S.
During a recitation by the Poet Master Opie812 of the book "Atlanta Nights", four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid- Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off.
Opie812 is reported to have been "disappointed" by the books reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled "My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and civilization, leaped straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
I guess this will be me blowing off steam; having posted i think once before, i don't think this will get moderated very high. ..
1) 0% - Ethics Major at university. Sorry
2) 0% - Don't like Macs.
3) 0% - Creative Commons? Haven't heard of that one. ..
4) 100% - Everything i like, i buy. Everything i buy, i rip. If i can't afford the CD i want, i simply wait until i can afford it.
5) 0% - They don't have anything i like that i haven't already bought myself.
6) ~1% - i've written about 10 cd's of stuff, but it pales in comparrison to my Cure collection. (see rant below)
7) ~.% - 1 cd by an unknown band from university. they broke up in the studio.
All right. That's me. You want to know my three room mates?
1) ~90% - too cheap to pay for what they can get for free
2) 0% - they don't know what Macs are
3) 0% - this is a guess. If i don't know about it, i doubt they do
4) 10% - the couple of cd's they bought before they found out about Napster, et al
5) 50% - lot of friends, lots of cd's
and this is where i start spewing hate :
6) 0%
7) 0%
i absolutely refuse to sell/give my cd's to people i know that swap mp3's online. I've worked too hard and spent too much time and money to have some pimply faced teen downloading my music for free, while i've sunk about $4000 into my recording studio, which still sounds amateur.
I made my mistake at university, gave one of my first cds to a kid across the hall. within a day, it was smeared across the whole campus, and couple of the houses off site. they didn't see the cover art i photographed and put together, they didn't read any of the liner notes i spent weeks rearranging to get the most impact, and best of all, no one bought the album. maybe because, being a demo of my first album, it sucked? possibly. but you think out of 3000 students, one would have said "hey, neat. here's five bucks" or something. ..
and i know most people, who have probably never written music, much less played an instrument, think that this is good, because now more people are hearing my material. i play for my love of music right? yeah, see, the only problem is, is all the freakin' ears in the world aren't going to help me buy more gear, or rent real studio time, or pay for my food so i don't have to get that second job which takes all my free time so i can no longer write new music.
Look, i don't even know what my point is anymore. I'm just screaming down an empty tunnel. I just hate those posts "we're trading MP3's for the good of the artists. they love making music", where in reality, they're the ones preventing the artists from doing what they like to do. ..
Unfortunately, I can't pull up the interviews here because of the SmartFilter, but. ..
From what I remember, Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, and Depeche Mode all lost money out of their pocket doing their most recent tours, even though a majority of them sold out, t-shirts sales or no.
Of course, they didn't need to do large, over the top, theatrical presentations (esp. NIN), but they said it was worth it to make the fans happy. ..
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> Could Google censorship be happening in the U.S. too?
Yes.
And yes, Chinese regulations will require us to remove some sensitive information from our search results. When we do so, we'll disclose this to users, just as we already do in those rare instances where we alter results in order to comply with local laws in France, Germany and the U.S.
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Opie812 is reported to have been "disappointed" by the books reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled "My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and civilization, leaped straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
-D.A. ('52-'01, RIP)
I guess this will be me blowing off steam; having posted i think once before, i don't think this will get moderated very high. . .
.
.
.
1) 0% - Ethics Major at university. Sorry
2) 0% - Don't like Macs.
3) 0% - Creative Commons? Haven't heard of that one. .
4) 100% - Everything i like, i buy. Everything i buy, i rip. If i can't afford the CD i want, i simply wait until i can afford it.
5) 0% - They don't have anything i like that i haven't already bought myself.
6) ~1% - i've written about 10 cd's of stuff, but it pales in comparrison to my Cure collection. (see rant below)
7) ~.% - 1 cd by an unknown band from university. they broke up in the studio.
All right. That's me. You want to know my three room mates?
1) ~90% - too cheap to pay for what they can get for free
2) 0% - they don't know what Macs are
3) 0% - this is a guess. If i don't know about it, i doubt they do
4) 10% - the couple of cd's they bought before they found out about Napster, et al
5) 50% - lot of friends, lots of cd's
and this is where i start spewing hate :
6) 0%
7) 0%
i absolutely refuse to sell/give my cd's to people i know that swap mp3's online. I've worked too hard and spent too much time and money to have some pimply faced teen downloading my music for free, while i've sunk about $4000 into my recording studio, which still sounds amateur.
I made my mistake at university, gave one of my first cds to a kid across the hall. within a day, it was smeared across the whole campus, and couple of the houses off site. they didn't see the cover art i photographed and put together, they didn't read any of the liner notes i spent weeks rearranging to get the most impact, and best of all, no one bought the album. maybe because, being a demo of my first album, it sucked? possibly. but you think out of 3000 students, one would have said "hey, neat. here's five bucks" or something. .
and i know most people, who have probably never written music, much less played an instrument, think that this is good, because now more people are hearing my material. i play for my love of music right? yeah, see, the only problem is, is all the freakin' ears in the world aren't going to help me buy more gear, or rent real studio time, or pay for my food so i don't have to get that second job which takes all my free time so i can no longer write new music.
Look, i don't even know what my point is anymore. I'm just screaming down an empty tunnel. I just hate those posts "we're trading MP3's for the good of the artists. they love making music", where in reality, they're the ones preventing the artists from doing what they like to do. .
- rovent
Well, suddenly my favourite past-time appears like it's going to be a lot more difficult.
"How can the cache be 100 meters to the east? I'm already standing knee deep in the Atlantic Ocean!"
Unfortunately, I can't pull up the interviews here because of the SmartFilter, but. . .
.
From what I remember, Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, and Depeche Mode all lost money out of their pocket doing their most recent tours, even though a majority of them sold out, t-shirts sales or no.
Of course, they didn't need to do large, over the top, theatrical presentations (esp. NIN), but they said it was worth it to make the fans happy. .
- Rovent