Well, you know once <A HREF="http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/2244930.html" target="_new">this</A> makes a "large" newspaper (well, the largest in MN) that it's time for the public to speak. I'm talking about the so-called anti-piracy bill (<A HREF="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_cong_bills&docid=f:s2048is.txt.pdf" target="_new">S.F 2048</A>) introduced by Senator Hollins, D-S.C.
It's tripe, and a thinly veiled attempt by the RIAA to control all access to music. I see it as having the effect of killing indie groups who use the internet to spread their MP3s so that people can know who they are. And, it makes it easy for them to have one master copy and burn as many as needed. That would be near impossible under this bill. Yes, it does not say that specifically, but by limiting the ability of retail products from being sold unless they have hardware encoding that looks for certain bytes of data, etc., unless you ante up the money to buy software to put that in your recordings, you are screwed. Also, it pushes the currently legal practice of ripping and mixing the CDs you personally own into a legal gray area, and also has the possiblity of making audio cd's completely unreadable to a computer (some discs like this have shown up in Europe, which specifically say that they will not work on a PC). And last, I suspect that the RIAA is feeling shorted since they haven't been able to capitalize on the Internet Revolution, so what better way to make money from the internet then by making encoded MP3s, WMAs, etc. that are readable only if a certain data key is used by the decoding software, which would be sold by RIAA affiliates.
This is total and utter crap, and something needs to be done. The first step is to <A HREF="http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm" target="_new">write your senators.</A> Tell them that you won't stand for this. Next, spread the word to other people who enjoy personal freedoms, telling the to write their senators. And once that ball is rolling, a second protest needs to be organized. One that will hit the RIAA right in the pocketbook. Using the internet, I think we could set up a day or week where people will not purchase CDs. Yes, I understand that artists need to make money, but from what I know, they get a slim to near zero slice of the profits pie. Kinda like game developers. It really sucks for them.
-SammyBoy
It's tripe, and a thinly veiled attempt by the RIAA to control all access to music. I see it as having the effect of killing indie groups who use the internet to spread their MP3s so that people can know who they are. And, it makes it easy for them to have one master copy and burn as many as needed. That would be near impossible under this bill. Yes, it does not say that specifically, but by limiting the ability of retail products from being sold unless they have hardware encoding that looks for certain bytes of data, etc., unless you ante up the money to buy software to put that in your recordings, you are screwed. Also, it pushes the currently legal practice of ripping and mixing the CDs you personally own into a legal gray area, and also has the possiblity of making audio cd's completely unreadable to a computer (some discs like this have shown up in Europe, which specifically say that they will not work on a PC). And last, I suspect that the RIAA is feeling shorted since they haven't been able to capitalize on the Internet Revolution, so what better way to make money from the internet then by making encoded MP3s, WMAs, etc. that are readable only if a certain data key is used by the decoding software, which would be sold by RIAA affiliates.
This is total and utter crap, and something needs to be done. The first step is to <A HREF="http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm" target="_new">write your senators.</A> Tell them that you won't stand for this. Next, spread the word to other people who enjoy personal freedoms, telling the to write their senators. And once that ball is rolling, a second protest needs to be organized. One that will hit the RIAA right in the pocketbook. Using the internet, I think we could set up a day or week where people will not purchase CDs. Yes, I understand that artists need to make money, but from what I know, they get a slim to near zero slice of the profits pie. Kinda like game developers. It really sucks for them.
-SammyBoy
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