Capitalism – as they say- is the second best system, but nobody has found the best one yet.

Cheers!

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AACS is required on all Blu-ray discs and costs $1,585 per title plus $0.05/disc

No. Holy Jesus Muffin Baked In Hell’s Sweet Flame No.

There is no fucking way I am going to go through the pain of applying for a “license” to some asswipe centralized copy protection gestapo so that I can be issued my unique serial number, blowing $1,585 out the window for the privilege of this delicious turd which I then HAVE to use (HAVE to use, I must stress) on my disc so it “can’t be duplicated” by normal people but easily duplicated by anyone else and THEN pay another five cents PER DISC for all future copies of the disc using this key I didn’t want for copy protection I don’t want. On TOP of the royalty to the patent pool of the Blu-Ray Consortium per disc. No fucking way! I couldn’t make this clearer if I formed the words using a pile of dead offspring. This is an utter deal breaker, friends.

I just accidentally overwrote a comment post from Alsee, the one I refer to above, citing Jonathan Swift’s 1729 satire, and which inspired my own comment.

Alsee expressed surprise at the fact no one appears to have picked up that Silverman’s piece was a satire.

Alsee also believes it was significant I hadn’t said ‘A Modest Proposal’ was part of the title to Silverman’s post, which in full was (and still is ) Commentary: Save the Music, A Modest Proposal For Government Intervention. Actually, all I’d meant to do was abbreviate it.

So, Alsee, I’m really sorry for inadvertently deleting your original Reader’s Write. Please feel free to post it again.

Cheers! And thanks …

I thought it couldn’t have been more obvious that in it, I was mocking both Apple and SunnComm. But I was wrong. So many people took it seriously SunnComm ended up issuing a passionate denial in a national, and even perhaps international, press release.

Tony Silverman’s piece is in my book one of the best satires on the corporate music industry I’ve ever seen and I admit I was hoping this post would provoke one or two mainstream reactions.

I emphasised, “Rock & Roll did more to bring about the fall of the Soviet Union than the CIA. A strong music business is a matter of national security.”

Excellent, and this isn’t bad either >> “Between 2000 and last year, the number of new releases rose from 35,515 to 79,695, according to Nielsen SoundScan. This increase in production has created an album glut, which the government could reduce by paying labels not to release albums, as it has done for agricultural commodities. It should also establish a fund to buy back 20% of all U.S. artist CD returns, which it could then distribute to developing nations to further spread American influence.”

Meanwhile, I’d never heard of Swift’s A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR PREVENTING THE CHILDREN OF POOR PEOPLE IN IRELAND FROM BEING A BURDEN TO THEIR PARENTS OR COUNTRY, AND FOR MAKING THEM BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC.

It’s absolutely amazing. Thanks, Alsee.

I just thought they were useless tools.

Here’s an idea.
Allow rock n roll on P2P and it will lead to the fall of china and Korea.

Fuckin morons.

Capitalism is great in theory. I’d just like to see it happen in practice.

(Off topic, but socialism is about equal results for everybody)

Hahahaha! Corporations are ABOUT “interference from Government”:

1. “Limited liability” means that Government creates a “veil” between the “personal assets” of corporate CEOs and shareholders and the assets of the corporation itself. How this doesn’t encourage “bad behavior” on the part of stockholders and corporate boards is beyond me. People – particularly CEOs with muliti-billion dollar salaries — know that their “personal” property and assets are completely insulated from the consequences of what the corporation does. With a vanishingly few exceptions, if corporations are liquidated, the CEOS and board members’ never have to deal with the possibility of losing their ten houses or their fleet of cars.

Incorporation is ABOUT the State “interfering” to insulate people from the consequences of their own business decisions.

Sole proprietorships/partnerships don’t provide “limited liability” — the proprietors of the business enterprise retail full liability for what their business does. Interesting how most “mon and pop” outits retain a sense of ethics, no? Corporate drones and the scumbags-in-chief at the top know full well that nothing they do will have any “consequences” to them, financial or otherwise.

The employees who can — and often are — terminated on a whim, however, aren’t so lucky.

“Capitalism” may be a lot of things, but it sure as fuck isn’t “free enterprise”

“while using American music to influence foreign culture”
Myself personally dont want to see any more “Gangsta” or “Ghetto” influenced culture

There has been a failure in this rush to do something in first formulating the rules to go by and couple to the money. Just like the Iraqi war, this was put into effect. With little thought out plans, a whole bunch of drum beating to stir up emotions to sell the idea, and jumping in head over heels.

Now you have every corporation looking for that free hand out. Hey, the US government is giving money away to those that ask. You don’t even have to be part of the US to get it. Stupid and dumb with the taxpayer left holding the bag. If you think the economy was going to tank before with all the deficits because it is driven by consumer spending, wait till the tax bill comes in for this one on top of the two wars fought on credit. This is another nail in the coffin, ensuring the economy is going to gutter. It’s feel good, not doing good and is a direct example of why the American people have given Bush and company such a low confidence rating. Not to mention what the American people think of the Congresscritters that all jumped on the bandwagon, without much thought.

Supposedly, Bush has been in the planning stages for some time over the situtation to have a plan to deal with it. What I distinctly notice in all this, was a lack of involving anyone else till it was in dire circumstances. It gives me the definate impression he was hoping to walk out without having to deal with it, leaving it as a time bomb for the new president to deal with. Thus making a very bad impression on the public with the new president as no matter how it is dealt with, the economy is a major producer of public sentiment.

Again, playing politics is more important than doing what is good for the country. It is amply demonstrated in this emotional, no time for considering so do it now, little thought out plan. It is the same way he has gotten passed so many bills that if there were time to reason and consider, no one in their right mind would have supported.

So if all the people in the US claim to be artists, such as mr silverman or the people he claims to represent; can they all get in on the bailout?