My music consumption habits represent not a pathological need to break the law so much as a legal situation that no longer reflects mainstream social norms.
For example, I am regularly listening to hip-hop mixtapes that include literally hundreds of unauthorized samples. This is not an outsider pathological practice but a daily habit among thousands and thousands of fans. Kevin On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Stephen Paul Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Somebody claiming to be Kevin Driscoll wrote: >> Ryan: >> >> Perhaps there is a need for a decentralized way to broadcast what you're >> >> listening to in such a way that only people who have access to your site >> >> can read it. << >> >> We could definitely make such a thing but we risk the possibilities >> and network effects that accompany the enormous dataset found in a >> service like Last.fm. >> >> What do you think? How many people is needed for it to be useful? > > A way to do it would be to implement the audioscrobbler API as a > WordPress plugin. Then any scrobbling software could easily be modified > to talk to your own WordPress install. Content could be secured with > the DiSo permissions plugin or similar if that was wanted. > >> Stephen: >> >> Or just never play/possess/acquire tracks for which someone might sue >> >> you. << >> >> That I laugh at such a statement reveals something significant about >> the gap between my music participation habits and the legal structure >> that disciplines them. > > I will never understand people's pathological need to break the law. > > - -- > Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma > Please see <http://singpolyma.net> for how I prefer to be contacted. > Don't toppost! <http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkmfSTYACgkQ6oSxepE9BOseBQCfQXHq6GN26VcWSTAXXXNqsHPv > gjEAn1Baeu9ogvN9DgSQl74a+sxXhePs > =6xvX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
