Offhand, the right to keep and bear arms--infringed upon (something the Constitution was pretty explicit about not allowing) by the ban on automatic and semi-automatic weapons. That's not the last four years, though. Yeah, in general, things more recently have been more about restricting and setting limitations on freedom than about explicit removal of rights, though that's another thing that's been done on more or less a regular basis since the end of World War II and the creation of the National Security Act of 1947.
It's not really about recording music as it is making it incredibly easy to do so; in theory, as long as you can hear the music, you can record and distribute it.
It's just that having a program automatically grab and tag songs for you is pretty far-removed from manually recording songs (at FM quality, which I'd assume is considerably worse than XM quality) with DJs and what-not talking over them, and then tagging them yourself. Not that I don't find the entire situation pretty foolish, but it's kinda understandable. In a way. To a point.
Yeah, okay, so it's not, but it's par for the course, at least.
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Offhand, the right to keep and bear arms--infringed upon (something the Constitution was pretty explicit about not allowing) by the ban on automatic and semi-automatic weapons. That's not the last four years, though. Yeah, in general, things more recently have been more about restricting and setting limitations on freedom than about explicit removal of rights, though that's another thing that's been done on more or less a regular basis since the end of World War II and the creation of the National Security Act of 1947.
It's not really about recording music as it is making it incredibly easy to do so; in theory, as long as you can hear the music, you can record and distribute it.
It's just that having a program automatically grab and tag songs for you is pretty far-removed from manually recording songs (at FM quality, which I'd assume is considerably worse than XM quality) with DJs and what-not talking over them, and then tagging them yourself. Not that I don't find the entire situation pretty foolish, but it's kinda understandable. In a way. To a point.
Yeah, okay, so it's not, but it's par for the course, at least.
Further, a rather disturbing study has revealed that nearly 50% of all high school students will graduate in the bottom half of their class.
You mean to tell me that if a study on movie piracy is paid for by the people who lose money from movie piracy, it's not going to be unbiased?
Yeah, right. Next, you'll be telling me that classes on copyright law sponsored by the RIAA are one-sided.
Like much else, brainwashing starts in the home.
But the REAL question is, "where can I get one?"
I'll see you all in Canada.
Weren't they just supposed to monitor violent content? On television networks?
Yay for slippery slopes!