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  • On the post: Sex, Drugs… And Facebook? Moral Panic Police Blaming Social Networks For Kids Being Kids

    AG Wright ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2011 @ 08:46am

    Re: Mike's knee-jerk reaction to any moralizing.

    "The Internet is a cesspool where the lowest urges and goals hold sway."

    Have you ever heard the old saying that you find what you look for in people?
    If you look for cess, you will find it. If you look for friendship, communication, knowledge, companionship, music, movies, and human beings you will find them.
    Some people are trash. Some are saints. It's always been that way and always will be.

  • On the post: TSA Agent Threatens Woman With Defamation, Demands $500k For Calling Intrusive Search 'Rape'

    AG Wright ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2011 @ 12:31pm

    Re: Re: Re: Anybody see the bottom...

    "Regardless, this TSA agent should at least be fired, but I doubt even that will happen."

    They can't fire the agent because then the TSA would have to admit that something wrong has been done and they can't do that.

  • On the post: Nigeria 'Celebrates' Its Recording Artists With 'No Music Day'

    AG Wright ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2011 @ 11:07am

    Free country

    At least I live in a free country where I can be called a thief for using the Google Music beta and downloading lots of music from archive.org.

  • On the post: Feds Raid Gibson; Musicians Now Worried The Gov't Will Take Their Guitars Away

    AG Wright ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2011 @ 04:59am

    Re: resource protection

    Gorph, What you didn't get in this whole thing is that Gibson is one of the companies that ONLY uses wood from renewable and supportable sources. They really are one of the good guys in the industry.
    They have bent over backwards to follow the law and now, without a change in the law.
    As a person that has multiple stringed instruments ranging from 5 to 45 years old I have no slightest idea how old the components of my instruments are.
    Is the nut of that 45 year old guitar bone or ivory? I don't know. I have no way of knowing. I bought the instrument 20 years ago in a pawn shop. It's my main guitar but I can't carry it out of the country, if I ever needed to travel with the laws in the current state.

  • On the post: RealNetworks Destroying Dutch Webmaster's Life Because He Linked To A Reverse Engineered Alternative

    AG Wright ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2011 @ 10:47am

    In trouble

    I wonder if I'm in trouble. I've recommended both Real Alternative and it's companion Quicktime Alternative on quite a few web sites and to customers numerous times. I know the web page is gone but I may need to look on archive.org and see if there is a copy.

  • On the post: Court Slams Righthaven (Again); Refuses To Let It Back Into Democratic Underground Case

    AG Wright ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2011 @ 05:12pm

    When do they give up?

    They will give up when the appeals court rules in favor of the Democratic Underground and the LVRJ finally has to pay.

  • On the post: Roscoe P. Coltrane Claims Warner Bros. Stiffed Him On Millions In Merch

    AG Wright ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2011 @ 02:14am

    He should be paid because

    It's simple. He has a contract that says he should be paid. The studio promised him to pay him for the use of his likeness and didn't do it and didn't bother to use standard accounting practices to account for that money that they did get.
    It shouldn't take 30 years to get an accounting of what and where those monies were received and spent on. It should take a few months to get everything together and it should be finished.

  • On the post: Can You Beat Patent Trolls By Using The Same Techniques That Make Them So Successful?

    AG Wright ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2011 @ 02:06am

    Success

    Nothing breeds success like success but it will take some large companies getting together and sponsoring a few lawyers to concentrate on this type of practice and the selflessness of those lawyers to share their methods and results to get it going.
    Unfortunately those large companies are stakeholders in the present method of defense against this type of suit and the odds are against it happening.

  • On the post: TSA Confiscates Pregnant Woman's Insulin, Ice Packs

    AG Wright ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2011 @ 09:10am

    Defective

    The woman must have gotten defective ice. You know the kind that melts.

  • On the post: Dear World: Self-Driving Cars Will Get Into Accidents Too (Though, This One Wasn't The Computer's Fault)

    AG Wright ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2011 @ 02:11pm

    Re:

    Oh come on I've never had Windows 7 crash to the point that it froze and had to be hard rebooted and I have managed to do that with Solaris and Linux. Haven't use OS 10 enough to have an opinion.

  • On the post: What Do They Say About The Lawyer Who Represents Himself?

    AG Wright ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2011 @ 09:31am

    Idiot for a client.

    Is he going to sue me now?

  • On the post: Lawsuits Against Grooveshark Continue; Music Publishers Seek To Redefine The DMCA

    AG Wright ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2011 @ 05:23am

    Re: Re:

    No the publishers just want it to make peace by going back to a time before the net and again having things their own way.

  • On the post: Writer Explains How Copyright Has Prevented Her From Ever Seeing TV Shows She Wrote

    AG Wright ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2011 @ 12:43pm

    Not even a torrent

    Sorry I can usually find a torrent of most stuff. I found one but nobody's seeding it.
    Sigh

  • On the post: Monkeys Don't Do Fair Use; News Agency Tells Techdirt To Remove Photos

    AG Wright ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2011 @ 11:49am

    Copyrighting animal pictures

    There goes my plan of making millions of dollars from my cat cams.

  • On the post: Danish Law Enforcement Would Like To Outlaw Anonymous Use Of The Internet

    AG Wright ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2011 @ 01:59pm

    Information needed

    But police,private investigators and crooked politicians all over the world need that kind of information to uh...
    protect the children from pedophiles and the rest of us from terrorists.
    Put that camera phone down and step away from the police vehicle too.

  • On the post: Reading 'Go The F**k To Sleep' May Lead To Child Abuse And Racism*

    AG Wright ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2011 @ 09:59am

    Get in line

    I can't help thinking that this particular book needs to get in a very long line of causes of child abuse like poverty, poor education and many other societal problems.
    I think if some of the other problems were addressed in some effective way, and I don't know what that might be, society as a whole could handle very well the amount of abuse that came about as a result of this book.

  • On the post: It Is Good To Be Laughed At; It's Better Than To Be Ignored

    AG Wright ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2011 @ 02:17am

    Wisdom

    Some people are wise. Some people are smart. A few are both and Mr. Wilson was obviously the rare individual who was both.

  • On the post: The Many Killers Of The Music Industry: The Analog Era

    AG Wright ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2011 @ 04:21am

    Re: Re: Re: But musicians also don't see what is coming

    The problem with your assertion is that most people aren't willing to use those tools that have become so common. I've been a musician for over 40 years and I don't usually perform for money. I perform for fun.
    I sometimes get paid but I've spent 5 times or more what I've made on instruments, strings, other accessories and even gas getting to performances than I've ever been paid.
    Most people that listen to music just want to listen. They have no interest in performing.
    The undeniable fact that a new instrument, the computer, has come on the scene and that people are using it to make music, even bad music, doesn't change the fact that to a great extent musicians make music because it's fun. Some of them make a living at it. Most of them don't.

  • On the post: The Many Killers Of The Music Industry: The Digital Era

    AG Wright ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2011 @ 09:55am

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    I keep having this discussion with people. The music business has little to do with the recording industry. The product can be the same but there are many millions of people involved in the music industry, teachers, salesmen, students, manufacturers and just players that are not involved in recording or only occasionally if they are.
    Even then the involvement in recording is in recording their own performances not in the "recording industry".
    It's only in the last 75 to 100 or so years that if a person is involved in making music the dream was to make recordings. Before that people were happy to play have fun and maybe make a living.

  • On the post: Record Labels, Once Again, Freak Out About Anyone Making Their Content Useful

    AG Wright ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2011 @ 04:31am

    Band that made it with free

    Maybe someone noticed it and I didn't notice on this thread but there was one band that totally and always was willing to have their fans share their music. You could lug any recorder into their concerts that you wanted and lug was what you did in those days.
    Who?
    The Grateful Dead
    You can download hours and hours of their music free at http://www.archive.org/index.php and those that are still alive don't care and never did.
    Free can work. It has always been something that was an option and could be built into the music business but the labels didn't like it.

    AG

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