Well if exaguration to make a point must happen, I certainly prefer satire to paranoid rants, although Im probably guilty of some paranoid ranting myself from time to time eh.
Still its not like the RIAA and corporations etc, are actually spoiling vlogging for everyone right now. Their attitude is not very progressive, and they are being horrible, and we should keep an eye on them, but as far as vlogging goes they are only likely to inconvenience vloggers who wat more freedom for bits of music to sometimes be somewhere in their works. I guess I dont want to see vloggers fall into the trap of feeling persecuted and running the risk of developing victim mentality. Feeling helpless is bad for you, sure we dont have a fair amount of power in various domains we should, but there are some freedoms we all enjoy, decisions and control we do have over some aspects of our lives, and focussing on that can undo some of the damage of living in societies that are oppressive in some areas. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "bordercollieaustralianshepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay ... this is a few weeks old. Maybe seen by many. Worth a repos ... > > Monday, December 31, 2007 by: Mike Adams > > On the heels of the RIAA's recent decision to criminalize consumers > who rip songs from albums they've purchased to their computers (or > iPods), the association has now gone one step further and declared > that "remembering songs" using your brain is criminal copyright > infringement. "The brain is a recording device," explained RIAA > president Cary Sherman. "The act of listening is an unauthorized act > of copying music to that recording device, and the act of recalling or > remembering a song is unauthorized playback." > > The RIAA also said it would begin sending letters to tens of millions > of consumers thought to be illegally remembering songs, threatening > them with lawsuits if they don't settle with the RIAA by paying > monetary damages. "We will aggressively pursue all copyright > infringement in order to protect our industry," said Sherman. > > In order to avoid engaging in unauthorized copyright infringement, > consumers will now be required to immediately forget everything > they've just heard ... MORE :-) <http://www.newstarget.com/022437.html> > > > "....Permission is granted to make copies of this story, redistribute > it, post it and e-mail it (please provide proper credit and URL) as > long as you do not actually remember it because copying to your brain > is now strictly prohibited. Any attempts to circumvent the > memory-based copyright restrictions on this article will result in > your brain imploding, causing such an extreme loss of cognitive > function that your only hope for any future career will be running for > public office." >
