"J. Coon" wrote:
> http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/09/mann.htm
> Rampant music piracy may hurt musicians less than they
> fear. The real threat -- to listeners and,
> conceivably,
> democracy itself -- is the music industry's reaction
> to it
Every once and a while a big giant bully like Jack Valenti and the Motion
Picture what ever (the bastards responsible for seeing that DVDs have
F~ckrovision-which I swear degrades the image quality under certain
circumstances) and the RIAA find themselves discovering that they are
suddenly standing alone instead of being backed by big corporate brother as
they were sure they would be:
"Tech giants slam Napster injunction
A broad coalition of technology and Internet companies are filing
legal briefs Friday that are bitterly critical of last month's court
decision against Napster, saying it could threaten the future of
much of the technology industry. The parties involved, including the
Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the Digital Media
Association (DiMA) and NetCoalition, are careful to say that they
are not explicitly supporting either side in the high-stakes
lawsuit. But each group's separate arguments go a long way to
support Napster in its battle against the Recording Industry
Association of America. The CEA includes giants such as Sony
Electronics, Apple Computer, Cisco Systems and hundreds of others
across the industry. DiMA is composed of many of the leading online
music companies, such as Listen.com and EMusic. NetCoalition is a
Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group that includes Yahoo, America
Online, Amazon.com and Excite@Home, among others. Several of the
trade associations contend that federal Judge Marilyn Hall Patel
misapplied copyright law that protects technologies with
"substantial non-infringing uses." If her decision is used as
precedent for other cases, it could threaten development across the
consumer technology sector, they say. Patel's decision late last
month sided with the record industry and said it is likely Napster
was at least partly liable for massive copyright infringement on the
part of its members. She ordered that the music-swapping site
prevent copyrighted material from being traded via its technology."
Sony must find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place! On the one
had they are now one of the largest record companies in America. On the
other hand they are the leader of consumer "progressive storage"
technologies (the MD, The Stick, etc.)
I thought that we live in a democracy? If the majority of population want
Napster to exist, shouldn't that be the case? If the RIAA wants to prevent
people from sharing songs, I'm sure that they could come up with some way
to prevent copying and at the same probably destroy the fidelity of their
products. What gives them the absolute right to record in digital and then
claim it is illegal for you to copy our digital music, since it is digital
music that seems to really have the bug up their asses.
Getting back to Sony, (I'm not making a political statement here or taking a
side on the issue, just giving an analogy) take the person who thinks that
abortion is the greatest sin that anyone can commit. Now, this guy happens
to be a father and not crazy about Black people.
His daughter is free thinking (if not all that smart when it comes to safe
sex). She has a Black boyfriend and becomes pregnant. What does the father
do?? He hates Blacks, but has made such a fuss about abortion??
Crazy analogy from crazy Larry. Hey, I turned 52 last Friday. I have been
practicing dentistry since 1973. Between the mercury (which I hardly use
these days) and the screams of the high speed drill (not to mention an
occasional scream from a patient), you expect me to be normal??
Hope everyone is enjoying their Labor day holiday,
Larry
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