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31-01-03, 11:48 PM | #1 |
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Record Execs Furious At RIAA
"This is a clear case of a multinational conglomerate using its political muscle to the disadvantage of everyone but itself. So, instead of creating new content and allowing long-standing laws to work, the entertainment business frantically seeks to manipulate the process to its own ends. And it does this with the obsequiousness of penurious politicians and a supinely acquiescent Supreme Court.
That is the best the establishment has to offer, and it has nothing to do with progress or the good of the society." - John Snyder and Ben Snyder Ice cold anger in there and exactly how I feel about it. Finally, the money end is waking up. Manifesto in Salon, WIR. - js. |
01-02-03, 04:19 AM | #2 | |
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That was one hell of a manifesto, and right on the nail!
It was a great sum-up from the lessons of p2p so far, a must read for every p2p afficiando. Coming from somebody inside the music industry it demonstrates that there are intelligent forces and players also on the commercial side of the fence even if the big production/distribution conglomerates are acting like retarded bullies. Quote:
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Excellent!
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(P.S. I notice it was cleverly appended to the trailing edge of this week's WIR.) As I said in my comments on the WIR, I'm really shocked that the record business hasn't folded already. The following quote sums up my feelings nicely : Quote:
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01-02-03, 02:43 PM | #4 | |
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Re: Excellent!
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yes, it made the "late edition." the wir is always held open until the end of the dateline for just such an event, and while there may be the later minor change for typos or style, after saturday any items of substance are held for the next issue. i've not seen a stronger denouncment by a responsible writer that i can ever recall. that it was written by a recording executive is more than unusual, it's extraordinary. it's also about time. - js. |
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02-02-03, 07:14 PM | #5 | |
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lmao! ain't that the truth. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE people. excellent, excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!
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04-02-03, 05:30 AM | #6 | |
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I only got to reading it yesterday - it is one of the finest peace of writing I recently read. I always (well, since the time I began to look into it) that there are profound similarities between the ideas behind Free Software and filesharing. I was especially delighted to see one of the Founding Fathers formulate that idea in clear words. Sometimes free software - similarly to p2p - by its opponents is described as unAmerican, even communist (or Bill Gates favorite metaphor: a cancer, a virus), so reading Thomas Jefferson's words was sweet indeed:
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