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:: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 ::

:: 1:31 PM :: 0 comments ::

EFF: RIAA Petition

if you think the RIAA is overstepping societal bounds, please sign the EFF: RIAA Petition...

-J

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:: 1:19 PM :: 0 comments ::

protect yourself from alien thought control...

notice: this is not one of my websites.

thank you.

-J

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:: 7:50 AM :: 0 comments ::

the previous recordholder must be heartbroken...

World’s oldest genitals discovered
LONDON, Sept. 17 — Scientists have discovered fossils of the world’s oldest genitals — belonging to 400 million-year-old insects — in ancient rocks in Scotland. The penis of the ancient harvestmen insects, commonly known as a daddy longlegs, was two-thirds the length of the body and remarkably similar to the modern-day species, New Scientist magazine said Wednesday.

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:: 11:06 AM :: 0 comments ::

memo to RIAA: you're a bunch of asses.

dear RIAA....you suck. You're a multibillion dollar behemoth, trapped in your ancient distribution model that affords you greater control over artists than anyone should ever have allowed, a monopoly power rivalling Microsoft, and you abuse that power to bleed money out of the single mother of a 12-year old girl.

but it doesn't stop there. your lawsuits are going after the technologically illiterate, the accidental followers of a movement much bigger than their limited knowlege of the technology behind it...many who stopped downloading pirated music but had installed P2P software, unaware that their machines had found all ripped music and offered it out to the masses...

you want to stop peer-to-peer? it's easy...put your entire musical library into a music-industry-supported digital distribution channel at 50 cents per song...standard MP3 format. forget about content control and digital media rights management, you're just going to encourage people to hack it. but make it easy to find, and cheap. sure, some people will still pass the files back and forth, but people have been sharing cd's for years, well before they could copy them to another disc...but P2P is popular because the Internet has turned us into on-demand consumers. when I want something, i want it now. right now. not in one business day with overnight shipping. i want it the minute i think about it...if it's a video, i want it via video-on-demand. if i want to send a note to someone, i don't want to have to go to the post office. if i want to know what's going on in the world, i want to see just the articles i'm interested in, immediately...and if i hear a cool song on the radio with a line that sticks in my head, i want to be able to type those words into my internet browser, figure out the song and the band, and have it downloaded and burned to disc within minutes.

for example...evanescence...heard 'em during the daredevil movie. liked the song...watched the end credits...saw the band name...thought i might like the band...went to grokster...searched on the name...found their music...downloaded some songs, right then and there...loaded 'em onto my philips audio keyring mp3 player...listened to 'em....liked 'em...put 'em on my shopping list. three days later, i was near a best buy, and i bought the disc. for music i'd already downloaded. because i liked the music, and wanted to support the artists. but if i hadn't downloaded their songs already, i probably wouldn't have just picked up the disc....nothing i hate more than buying a disc for one good song, only to find out the other eight tracks are all crap.

but here's the thing...i would have never bought the cd if i could have just downloaded the music legally from the web. my new favorite music site is buymusic.com, becuase it does for the PC world what iTunes did for the mac users, without all the lawsuits for trademark infringment from the Beatle's Apple Corps Music.

so it's moving the right direction. but everything isn't up there yet...to tell you the truth, tho, these bullshit RIAA scare tactics are really starting to get on my nerve. i'm about 70% committed to selling all my RIAA-member-tied discs to the local used music reseller, and listen only to independent labels with no RIAA ties...i've got plenty of independent-label cds...

so anyway, RIAA...you suck. your parents wouldn't necessarily be mad at you....just...disappointed.


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:: 12:31 AM :: 0 comments ::

found my favorite website back...

i always found these folks quite funny. Revision 2.0 was my favorite, linked here:
B U D . U G L L Y . D E S I G N
something about the midi file in the background. :)

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