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____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Monday 18 August 2008 20:49 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:51:13 +0000
> <6299721.Q9zW1g1Ltd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> US presidential candidate is a pirate
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | THE PRESUMED Republican US presidential candidate John McCain favours
>> | draconian copyright enforcement, except when his own election campaign
>> | uses other people's music.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/16/gop-presidential-candidate
>>
>
> Why doesn't this surprise me?
>
> http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/9111.html
>
> (Debating this issue is probably best done elsewhere, such
> as alt.politics.usa.misc, but I have my doubts as to whether
> John "Straight Talk (Except When I Don't)" McCain even knows
> what the Internet is, let alone Linux, DRM, and an operating
> system. (He might know something about copyright law, though
> not necessarily about recent updates.)
>
>> Pandora Reaching Its Epilogue?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Many are predicting the upcoming demise of the company as a result of a
>> | federal panel ruling ordering them to pay twice the royalties to artists
>> | that ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> | they already were.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/18/pandora-reaching-its-epilogue
>
> This might be good news, in a way -- it might focus the
> debate on whether content *delivery* should change end-user
> content *cost*.
>
> Or it might not. Stay tuned.
>
>>
>> Pandora can't make money, may pull the plug
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Buckling under the weight of the Internet radio royalty hike that
>> | SoundExchange pushed through last July, Pandora may pull its own plug
>> | soon. Despite being one of the most popular Internet radio services, the
>> | company still isn't making money, and its founder, Tim Westergren, says it
>> | can't last beyond its first payment of the higher royalties
>> `---- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080818-pandora-cant-make-money-may-pull-the-plug.html
>>
>> Yup. Passing laws to declare the competition "illegal" or "irrelevant".
>>
>> Maximalist monopolists.
>
> http://www.loc.gov/crb/
>
> To be fair, the laws are described in
> http://www.loc.gov/crb/laws/ (Title 17, chapter 8,
> sections 801-805, and Title 17, chapter 10 of the USC),
> and the change may have been fomented by the Copyright
> Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004 (PL 108-419,
> signed 2004-11-30) and the Copyright Royalty Judges Program
> Technical Corrections Act (PL 109-303, signed 2006-02-06).
>
> Someone sponsored those laws. I'd have to look who.
> http://thomas.loc.gov/ might assist there.
> Both PL 108-419 and PL 109-303 were sponsored by Lamar Smith,
> Republican, 21st district of Texas.
>
> http://www.loc.gov/crb/claims/
>
> shows links to three royalty claim forms: one for cable
> transmission (which may or may not include DSL; that's
> going to be interesting), satellite transmission (aka
> "broadcasting", presumably), and "DART", which stands for
> digital audio recording technology (one wonders whether
> DVRT is another acronym, and whether the actual recording
> technology -- DAT, CD, DVD, streaming -- makes a lot
> of difference).
>
>>
>>
>> Recent:
>>
>> Royalty fee 'to damage net radio'
>
> In the same manner presumably as Hiroshima and
> Nagasaki damaged Japan's industrial war capacity.
>
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Hundreds of US net radio stations face potential closure from Monday when
>> | they will be expected to comply with a new royalties ruling for playing
>> | music.
>> |
>> | Smaller stations face a payment increase of 1,200% while larger station
>> | could owe up to 300% more, lobby group SaveNetRadio has said.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6896152.stm
>
> And remember, DRM is here to protect you the consumer. Not. :-P
>
> Though in all fairness I hope DRM at least makes a token
> attempt at protecting all of the music artists. (In
> a modern production there's a large number thereof:
> singers, lyric writers, performing musicians, mixing
> studios/artists, and arrangers come to mind. One can
> also look at the credits of any of a large number of
> modern movie productions, where everyone from the
> executive director to third string gaffer are listed. ;-)
> But they're all needed -- that light does have to move,
> after all.)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv203_cambridge_4_stallman_08-04_003.ogg
- --
~~ Best of wishes
Microsoft loves competition.
"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to
everything it touches."
--Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
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