Comments on: Musicians dropped from Digital Britain debate http://www.p2pnet.net/story/31737 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eric http://www.p2pnet.net/story/31737/comment-page-1#comment-991419 Eric Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:48:11 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=31737#comment-991419 If we are not criminalized, then we consumers are "ignorant" for having an opinion that doesn't jibe with the status quo. If we are not criminalized, then we consumers are “ignorant” for having an opinion that doesn’t jibe with the status quo.

]]> By: Jon http://www.p2pnet.net/story/31737/comment-page-1#comment-991394 Jon Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:48:21 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=31737#comment-991394 @ TonsoTunez <i>You</i> are talking to <i>me</i> about "serious dissertation"? Get serious. :) Cheers! @ TonsoTunez

You are talking to me about “serious dissertation”?

Get serious. :)

Cheers!

]]> By: Crosbie Fitch http://www.p2pnet.net/story/31737/comment-page-1#comment-991387 Crosbie Fitch Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:08:06 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=31737#comment-991387 Bragg may have nothing to offer the cartel, but he has plenty to offer the customers for music that the cartel has been threatening and prosecuting. The more harshly the cartel rejects FAC the more likely FAC are to abandon their compromise of a non-commercial ghetto for file-sharers and embrace complete liberty. Software engineers and their customers had to liberate themselves, and now we have the FSF, Linux and loads of other copyleft software. Artists and fans can also liberate themselves. Just as Microsoft couldn't do anything except help free software, so RIAA and MPAA can't do anything except help free music and movies. This is the quicksand of inevitability. Each movement against those who would freely produce and purchase music that they are at liberty to share and build upon hastens the doom of those who would keep them shackled by copyright. Bragg may have nothing to offer the cartel, but he has plenty to offer the customers for music that the cartel has been threatening and prosecuting. The more harshly the cartel rejects FAC the more likely FAC are to abandon their compromise of a non-commercial ghetto for file-sharers and embrace complete liberty.

Software engineers and their customers had to liberate themselves, and now we have the FSF, Linux and loads of other copyleft software.

Artists and fans can also liberate themselves. Just as Microsoft couldn’t do anything except help free software, so RIAA and MPAA can’t do anything except help free music and movies.

This is the quicksand of inevitability. Each movement against those who would freely produce and purchase music that they are at liberty to share and build upon hastens the doom of those who would keep them shackled by copyright.

]]> By: TonsoTunez http://www.p2pnet.net/story/31737/comment-page-1#comment-991383 TonsoTunez Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:44:25 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=31737#comment-991383 I'm sorry, Jon, but Billy Bragg's association with you and P2Pnet.net disqualifies the Featured Artists Coalition from participation from any serious dissertation of how to protect creator's rights in the digital environment. I mean, look at your advertisers. Look at your uniformed commentary. Look at the ignorance of the readers who follow you. Bragg has chosen to deep six himself and now is viewed as having nothing viable to offer. I’m sorry, Jon, but Billy Bragg’s association with you and P2Pnet.net disqualifies the Featured Artists Coalition from participation from any serious dissertation of how to protect creator’s rights in the digital environment. I mean, look at your advertisers. Look at your uniformed commentary. Look at the ignorance of the readers who follow you. Bragg has chosen to deep six himself and now is viewed as having nothing viable to offer.

]]> By: Jon http://www.p2pnet.net/story/31737/comment-page-1#comment-991379 Jon Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:12:06 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=31737#comment-991379 johnny disco: You're dead on. Thanks. Fixed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_%28newspaper%29 I was thinking of the Times. Cheers! johnny disco:

You’re dead on. Thanks. Fixed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_%28newspaper%29

I was thinking of the Times.

Cheers!

]]> By: johnny disco http://www.p2pnet.net/story/31737/comment-page-1#comment-991377 johnny disco Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:03:00 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=31737#comment-991377 I think that the Telegraph is owned by a couple of Channel Island tax avoiders called the Barclay brothers. I think that the Telegraph is owned by a couple of Channel Island tax avoiders called the Barclay brothers.

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