I'm a 'member' of a studio in Pennsylvania. For twenty dollars a year, you can buy a membership and download MP3s or OGGs from a long list of local music.
The real lie here is the use of the word 'pirate'. The creatures at the MPAA don't understand art. Art doesn't make them any money. Product makes them money. Justice doesn't make them money (although injustice apparently does...), constitutional rights doesn't make them money, human feelings don't make them money. Sharing doesn't make them money. Anything which does not make money for these creatures is anathema and is to be attacked, or at least ignored.
But the 'Artists' these people so blithely talk about understand that money is not the reason for, or the beginning of, art. Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against getting paid for my work; and sometimes a big project costs money; but I recognize that any art, be it a story or a song or whatever, is a collaberative work between artist and audience. It cannot exist without both; but it can exist without the MPAA.
That's what's got the MPAA running scared. That's why they're trying to confuse the issue by talking about 'theft' and 'piracy'. That's why they're pouring millions of dollars into the Congressional whorehouse to buy themselves eternal copyright legislation.
And therein is the big lie : they place a copyright on Art and from that point on, insofar as they're concerned, it's Product. When all art is product, then all fans become pirates.
I agree that Kim Jong Il would be insane to actually use one of those weapons, although I wouldn't be entirely sure that he isn't. There are people in this world who hate themselves and the United States enough that they could and would use such a weapon. The greater danger, as I see it is that the Dear Dictator might sell a working nuke to terrorists.
Anyone who's tempted to think that there's any virtue or legitimacy in Kim Jong Il should watch Children of the Secret State, a documentary about life inside North Korea. If even a portion of that film is true, then North Korea is a cold, bleak Hell of despair and now it's a cold, bleak Hell of despair with nukes.
Children of the Secret State (http://times.discovery.com/convergence/ins idenort hkorea/video/video.html)
"In upholding the dog's sniff-search of the trunk, the Supreme Court held that it did not "compromise any legitimate interest in privacy." Why? Because, according to the court, "any interest in possessing contraband cannot be deemed 'legitimate.'"...so let me get this straight. I have a right to privacy, so long as I'm not possessing contraband. But if they find contraband while violating my right to privacy, then I didn't have a right to privacy to begin with... ????
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I'm a 'member' of a studio in Pennsylvania. For twenty dollars a year, you can buy a membership and download MP3s or OGGs from a long list of local music.
With outfits like
Steam Powered Studios , who needs Sony?
The real lie here is the use of the word 'pirate'. The creatures at the MPAA don't understand art. Art doesn't make them any money. Product makes them money. Justice doesn't make them money (although injustice apparently does...), constitutional rights doesn't make them money, human feelings don't make them money. Sharing doesn't make them money. Anything which does not make money for these creatures is anathema and is to be attacked, or at least ignored.
But the 'Artists' these people so blithely talk about understand that money is not the reason for, or the beginning of, art. Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against getting paid for my work; and sometimes a big project costs money; but I recognize that any art, be it a story or a song or whatever, is a collaberative work between artist and audience. It cannot exist without both; but it can exist without the MPAA.
That's what's got the MPAA running scared. That's why they're trying to confuse the issue by talking about 'theft' and 'piracy'. That's why they're pouring millions of dollars into the Congressional whorehouse to buy themselves eternal copyright legislation.
And therein is the big lie : they place a copyright on Art and from that point on, insofar as they're concerned, it's Product. When all art is product, then all fans become pirates.
I agree that Kim Jong Il would be insane to actually use one of those weapons, although I wouldn't be entirely sure that he isn't. There are people in this world who hate themselves and the United States enough that they could and would use such a weapon. The greater danger, as I see it is that the Dear Dictator might sell a working nuke to terrorists.
s idenort hkorea/video/video.html)
Anyone who's tempted to think that there's any virtue or legitimacy in Kim Jong Il should watch Children of the Secret State, a documentary about life inside North Korea. If even a portion of that film is true, then North Korea is a cold, bleak Hell of despair and now it's a cold, bleak Hell of despair with nukes.
Children of the Secret State
(http://times.discovery.com/convergence/in
"In upholding the dog's sniff-search of the trunk, the Supreme Court held that it did not "compromise any legitimate interest in privacy." Why? Because, according to the court, "any interest in possessing contraband cannot be deemed 'legitimate.'" ...so let me get this straight. I have a right to privacy, so long as I'm not possessing contraband. But if they find contraband while violating my right to privacy, then I didn't have a right to privacy to begin with ... ????