my piece of mind
2003-08-09 ~ 4:28 a.m.

explanations about the riaa message at the top of the screen.

avid music fan equals impending doom.

no joke.

i deliberately blacked out this site and every other one i have.

this is important enough to warrant it. to me.

don't listen to me. look it up yourself. pay attention and understand.

i love music. but this isn't really about the music.

do you actually know who the RIAA is?

..."The Recording Industry Association of America is a special interest group that claims from time to time to lobby on behalf of musicians, but it is funded by, and represents the interests of, the major record companies." i stole that from http://www.futureofmusic.org/manifesto/

don't look to the news. they are owned. you will not hear about the grandfather getting sued because he found his favorite oldies on his p2p software his tech savvy son set up for him. he had less than 250 songs.

understand that your ISP is giving your information away.

most were already selling it...but now they are giving it up.

MIT and Boston College are fighting this...and are making small steps to victory. (the subpoena for student information was denied by a fedreal judge in mass. for not being filed correctly in accordance with the students rights)

yes. student's rights.

rights?

fourth amendment?

this is not the country it was.

give a fucking damn.

do your own damn researching and begin to feel the panic.

look it up...

the RIAA (recording industry association of america)

the DMCA (digital millenium copyright act)

CARP (copyright arbitration royalty panel)

SDMI (secure digital music initiative)

the DRM (digital rights management)

the Patriot Act

put it in perspective. get glasses if you fucking have to.

this is where science fiction catches up to the present and devours it because 'the people' are too busy being distracted with everything else they throw at you.

not to diminish current events or to suggest preposterous conspiracy theories. the news is edited unless it is live and late-breaking.

they don't give a shit about music. do you actually think rosen listens to eminem or 50 cent? that is laughable.

so why then is there such a ruckus?

greed. fairly obvious choice. except why then did they settle a case involving over 500,000 songs for 12,000 dollars? divide that. it is less than 50 cents a song. stop and explain cd prices to me right now.

power. wait. they are a lobbying group, no?

job security. don't laugh. if the numbers get crunched...at the current rate, it will take over 206 million years to eradicate music pirates. that is some long term job security there.

control.

you buy a new computer. in a few years or sooner, that computer will not let you download or upload anything that is not digitally fingerprinted as being 'legal and within acceptable use' for you to share. you try hacking around it only to find out that it is built into the hardware and there is no way around it. (refer to DRM - Digital Rights Management)

now, if you have read for yourself...do you really think this is ultimately about the music?

do you grasp the idea that federal court judges are denying you your fourth amendment rights?

do you care?

do you think it will all just die down and go away and your life won't change?

"we are trapped here like rats..."

indeed.

that was my rant.

i slept the evening away and will sleep this morning. this afternoon is terri's birthday party.

things to do.

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