Dear God, please destroy the "music industry". Not the musicians, just the "industry" part. We haven't needed them for at least a decade now, and they never were much good anyway.
While you're at it, if you could please destroy the "movie industry" too.
I know that the destruction of the music "industry" and the movie "industry" doesn't mean there won't be music or movies, just that the people who leech off the artists will have to find other employment, probably as pimps or drug dealers. Maybe it's best just to smite the lot of them.
Having a few people hit it big and the rest losing out is a pretty neat description of our economic system. It's the way it was designed and it's working even better than hoped.
The people at UNC-TV need to tell Alcoa: "take us to court".
UNC has lawyers on staff. They could always give up the notes, but for god's sake, make Alcoa get a judge to say so.
I'm sure there have been efforts to get PBS or NPR to give up sources. There's surely case law here that will support the right to protect sources.
Alcoa is just hoping that a some scared little mouse of a managing officer will fold instead of stand up. Force Alcoa to make a case, don't just start the negotiations by giving up, UNC-TV.
It's absolutely news to show someone's previous writings in a political campaign.
If it had been an article she wrote, it would be just as much newsworthy and re-publishing would be fair use. Why should a web page be any different.
At worst, Reid would have to simply republish the text without the layout, graphics, formatting. But when you're running for public office, the things you have written and published are now matters of public record, even if you've taken them off the web.
I'm wondering about the part where the "exacloud" is going to "do away with powerful personal computers" as if the only reason I would own a computer is to surf the web.
And the web can't "steal my privacy" as long as I don't give it any real information ("Pope Ratzo" isn't my real name, by the way).
I love how the corporatists are now using evangelicals as their shock troops, as if "God hates regulation!"
I think we need to start a criminal investigation into Fox News for "introducing fraudulent data into computer systems" for the information on their website.
It's not about racism. It's about a greedy industry that's afraid of losing it all.
Plus, they still think they'll figure out a way to make money off Girls Talk.
Just think of it: They'll be able to make money off the original artists' music and then double dip for more money off the sampler's music. It's like shaking the money tree for them.
I have a blog that only contains music that I wrote, recorded and distribute myself (not under "poperatzo" of course). I'm not trying to pimp my work, so I won't include a link.
Believe it or not, since I started this blog, I've received TWO threatening letters from music industry lawyers, one telling me to take down MY OWN music and another saying that I was running an internet radio station and owed license fees.
One of the other musicians I play with is a lawyer and he was able to get it straightened out pretty easily, but this is the kind of extortion that the music industry is now engaged in.
There seems to be a lot of scorn for this little guy trying to assert some bogus trademark.
How quickly we forget that those free credit report dot com stools with ears just locked up over a thousand domains that contained every possible permutation of those words, and all possible misspellings of those words, and just to be save the words "google", "windows" and "smart phone".
And the courts? Well, the courts just bowed deeply to the freek redit rapport dot com bums and said "Table for two thousand, monseiur?"
Precious Obama ignoring the one conservative outlet in Fox
But Fox isn't "conservative", it's "fair and balanced".
I can understand their not wanting their broadcasts to be widely used by liberals, especially considering Fox's proclivity for using misleading film footage and outright prevarication.
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Of course
We know that the Republicans care about keeping the Internet "free".
Dopey Americans, watch what the next two years will bring when you "Save America" by electing Republicans.
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A music lover's prayer
While you're at it, if you could please destroy the "movie industry" too.
I know that the destruction of the music "industry" and the movie "industry" doesn't mean there won't be music or movies, just that the people who leech off the artists will have to find other employment, probably as pimps or drug dealers. Maybe it's best just to smite the lot of them.
Amen.
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The Crux of the Matter
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No way, no how
UNC has lawyers on staff. They could always give up the notes, but for god's sake, make Alcoa get a judge to say so.
I'm sure there have been efforts to get PBS or NPR to give up sources. There's surely case law here that will support the right to protect sources.
Alcoa is just hoping that a some scared little mouse of a managing officer will fold instead of stand up. Force Alcoa to make a case, don't just start the negotiations by giving up, UNC-TV.
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Too late
If it had been an article she wrote, it would be just as much newsworthy and re-publishing would be fair use. Why should a web page be any different.
At worst, Reid would have to simply republish the text without the layout, graphics, formatting. But when you're running for public office, the things you have written and published are now matters of public record, even if you've taken them off the web.
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Re: Burying the lede
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Re:
Well that's just too bad.
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Ironic
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Do evangelicals HAVE to be d-bags?
And the web can't "steal my privacy" as long as I don't give it any real information ("Pope Ratzo" isn't my real name, by the way).
I love how the corporatists are now using evangelicals as their shock troops, as if "God hates regulation!"
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Nameless One is Right
Plus, they still think they'll figure out a way to make money off Girls Talk.
Just think of it: They'll be able to make money off the original artists' music and then double dip for more money off the sampler's music. It's like shaking the money tree for them.
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Re:
Thanks for brightening up my day. I hope the rest of the major labels follow closely along behind them.
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Just don't like the way it looks. I'd rather see a 1930's film in black & white.
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Silliness
That's what they do. Shut up already.
Gorrilaz makes some fun music, but for them to try to claim that their work is some sort of protected "intellectual property" is nonsense.
God, copyright is poison. It makes people sick and crazy.
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How bad it can get
Believe it or not, since I started this blog, I've received TWO threatening letters from music industry lawyers, one telling me to take down MY OWN music and another saying that I was running an internet radio station and owed license fees.
One of the other musicians I play with is a lawyer and he was able to get it straightened out pretty easily, but this is the kind of extortion that the music industry is now engaged in.
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The Magician's Friend
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Re: upside-down
And I've just started a band called "Free Credit Report Dot Com Is A Ripoff".
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upside-down
How quickly we forget that those free credit report dot com stools with ears just locked up over a thousand domains that contained every possible permutation of those words, and all possible misspellings of those words, and just to be save the words "google", "windows" and "smart phone".
And the courts? Well, the courts just bowed deeply to the freek redit rapport dot com bums and said "Table for two thousand, monseiur?"
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Re: In risk of infringment
But Fox isn't "conservative", it's "fair and balanced".
I can understand their not wanting their broadcasts to be widely used by liberals, especially considering Fox's proclivity for using misleading film footage and outright prevarication.
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