Guy Fraser wrote: > Mac and Linux Users : Music execs should quit whining or we will dump > their music. Check out http://jamendo.com for good Creative Commons -licensed music you can download for free, completely outside the existing system and with the blessing of the creators. > Unfortunately most politicians are easy to bribe, and can usually be I don't think this reflects the reality. Many, perhaps most politicians are there because they want to 'do the right thing' and get a kick out of it. The big problem comes not from overt corruption (although that is a problem when MSFT is hiring from its supposed regulators) but from the binding together of news media interests with the content industries. This is a very scary proposition for a politician to go against the demands of these content industries when they have 'punishment tools' like tabloid hounds on their books which are happy to dig/manufacture whatever career-destroying dirt they can and splash it. Even good political people have to swallow faced with that implicit threat. I guess that's why we see the 'suicide 20' congressfolks in the states standing up for the broadcast flag, which no independent voter wants or thinks is a good idea. > Buying and stealing music is a two edged sword : Copyright infringement is not theft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States Check out Jamendo and the increasing availability of relatively liberally licensced music in Podcasts, etc: you may find you can meet most or all your music needs totally outside the mainstream just like Linux and GPL software meets almost all my software needs outside the mainstream and with no question about the legitimacy of the licensing. -Andy
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