Well, I hope that since he's not passing his wealth on, at least not the bulk of it, hopefully he also won't pass on his idiot-prone and big-brotherish licensing techniques.
I like what Moby said, there should be an online service, what with the continued expansion of Broadband, that will allow any low-paid user to listen to an arbitrary number of songs an unlimited number of times possibly for a certain amount of time. They can listen to it all they want, and even a handy desktop client can be given out, and they pay some. Most artists never get royalities anyways, due to some fraudulent RIAA-Companies' accounting policies, so that's why many artists don't give a shit, they know it doesn't effect them because they make more money from the shows and the sales of merchandise. Moby is right, they need to embrace technology or be damned!
Fascinating.
I've always thought that copyrights inhibited innovation. Although, OpenSource licenses seem to help it along while still guarenteeing many of the same rights. Punk Radio Cast has a funny copyright notice and so does CrimethInc.TK...
The Department of Homeland Security is a branch employed by Bush after he let 9/11 happen. This branch is not for external matters but more to repeal the rights that real patriots fought and died for. See the PATRIOT Act for more info.
Find more info here.
Uh, okay mister nationalist. Its too bad we spend less on education than most civilized nations percentage wise.
Its too bad that 300 billion goes to corporate welfare while only 13 goes to social welfare.
This is what I say: bolster social welfare to 50, cut corporate completely and give the other 250 back to the people. Think of it.
It figures that a fascist and unamerican branch of Gov't such as the DOHS would employ a fascist and unamerican company such as M$ to take care of their tech-needs. Heil Bush!
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Well, I hope that since he's not passing his wealth on, at least not the bulk of it, hopefully he also won't pass on his idiot-prone and big-brotherish licensing techniques.
I like what Moby said, there should be an online service, what with the continued expansion of Broadband, that will allow any low-paid user to listen to an arbitrary number of songs an unlimited number of times possibly for a certain amount of time. They can listen to it all they want, and even a handy desktop client can be given out, and they pay some. Most artists never get royalities anyways, due to some fraudulent RIAA-Companies' accounting policies, so that's why many artists don't give a shit, they know it doesn't effect them because they make more money from the shows and the sales of merchandise. Moby is right, they need to embrace technology or be damned!
Fascinating.
I've always thought that copyrights inhibited innovation. Although, OpenSource licenses seem to help it along while still guarenteeing many of the same rights.
Punk Radio Cast has a funny copyright notice and so does CrimethInc.TK...
The Department of Homeland Security is a branch employed by Bush after he let 9/11 happen. This branch is not for external matters but more to repeal the rights that real patriots fought and died for. See the PATRIOT Act for more info. Find more info here.
Is that from a DOHS statement or something?
Uh, okay mister nationalist. Its too bad we spend less on education than most civilized nations percentage wise. Its too bad that 300 billion goes to corporate welfare while only 13 goes to social welfare. This is what I say: bolster social welfare to 50, cut corporate completely and give the other 250 back to the people. Think of it.
It figures that a fascist and unamerican branch of Gov't such as the DOHS would employ a fascist and unamerican company such as M$ to take care of their tech-needs. Heil Bush!