Completely tolerant intellectual property laws already exist - check out www.creativecommons.org.
The problem is, artists are not licensing their music this way and don't seem to mind when their fans face persecution.
If you want to support an artist who has chosen to release his album under the "open source" Creative Commons license, you can get my new album for free at http://www.anotherdreamer.net.
In my opinion, artists and fans must work toward a direct, mutually-beneficial relationship and cut the RIAA out of the deal completely.
I recently released an album under a Creative Commons license simply because I would never want a situation in which my audience would be persecuted for listening to my music.
The RIAA is must be taking out of the loop. Fans and artists must make an effort to do so.
Anyway, my album is available for free at www.anotherdreamer.net
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one of the reasons for the decline.
It would also be interesting to compare shopping not just with sex, but with political subject-matter.
Who cares? I'm not interested in moralizing about corporate profits. .
Yup, very pro-American...let's use the centralized power of an authoritarian state to crack down on free speech.
Haha, but let's not take freedom of speech lightly please.
Completely tolerant intellectual property laws already exist - check out www.creativecommons.org. The problem is, artists are not licensing their music this way and don't seem to mind when their fans face persecution. If you want to support an artist who has chosen to release his album under the "open source" Creative Commons license, you can get my new album for free at http://www.anotherdreamer.net. In my opinion, artists and fans must work toward a direct, mutually-beneficial relationship and cut the RIAA out of the deal completely.
They would be, theoretically, paying for "security" not for "my wiretap".
There couldn't be a better plan to make the Olympics less "authentic" and more "manufactured". This policy is not only wrong, it's ineffective.
The larger "catch" is perhaps that we still don't have the right to privacy online. Now THAT would be a victory.
I recently released an album under a Creative Commons license simply because I would never want a situation in which my audience would be persecuted for listening to my music. The RIAA is must be taking out of the loop. Fans and artists must make an effort to do so. Anyway, my album is available for free at www.anotherdreamer.net