At the risk of sounding antisemitic, the majority of the people in the music industry are Jewish and always have been. Same people who screamed about the advent of CD's, videotapes and DVD's and now online music distribution. While the Japanese managed to work around it in the 90's by buying many of the Hollywood studios (Sony, Panasonic etc. bought out MGM and Paramount etc.), I realized that those very studios are pretty much still run by the same cabal of Hollywood insiders. For anyone to condemn and take down a fair use video such as this one is despicable in general and evil in particular when you consider the source of the complaints.
How we managed to get into this situation of being expected to pay for something each time you hear it is beyond me. As a visual artist, I have no expectation of anyone being required to pay me each time someone walks past a painting of mine and looks at it - same analogy. Or how about this example: I do an illustration that gets used for a billboard campaign for an advertiser? Should I get paid for views like clicks on an online ad? Yet, they use a jingle for a commercial and heaven help the advertiser if they forget to pay the artiste for one single missed listener!
I hope the new paradigm of the Internet will finally begin to change an antiquated approach that's been in place for way too long already. Am I missing something here?
I have been pondering this issue in context with a much bigger story. It's all about What-If's that keep coming to mind as we charge along the path to a wired world. If the general population (thanks in no small part to the MSM and ranting bloggers to reinforce their drumbeat) continues to mistrust ALL voting machines, then it simply maintains a status quo in which an outdated "representative government" keeps running this country. Electronic voting is the levelling quantum shift that gives individual voters the power that was lost when we gave that power to our Senators and Congressmen a couple of centuries ago. Let's face it - politicians do NOT want you to trust anything that begins to take their power away.
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Music Copyright
At the risk of sounding antisemitic, the majority of the people in the music industry are Jewish and always have been. Same people who screamed about the advent of CD's, videotapes and DVD's and now online music distribution. While the Japanese managed to work around it in the 90's by buying many of the Hollywood studios (Sony, Panasonic etc. bought out MGM and Paramount etc.), I realized that those very studios are pretty much still run by the same cabal of Hollywood insiders. For anyone to condemn and take down a fair use video such as this one is despicable in general and evil in particular when you consider the source of the complaints. How we managed to get into this situation of being expected to pay for something each time you hear it is beyond me. As a visual artist, I have no expectation of anyone being required to pay me each time someone walks past a painting of mine and looks at it - same analogy. Or how about this example: I do an illustration that gets used for a billboard campaign for an advertiser? Should I get paid for views like clicks on an online ad? Yet, they use a jingle for a commercial and heaven help the advertiser if they forget to pay the artiste for one single missed listener! I hope the new paradigm of the Internet will finally begin to change an antiquated approach that's been in place for way too long already. Am I missing something here?
Voting Machines: The REAL Story
I have been pondering this issue in context with a much bigger story. It's all about What-If's that keep coming to mind as we charge along the path to a wired world. If the general population (thanks in no small part to the MSM and ranting bloggers to reinforce their drumbeat) continues to mistrust ALL voting machines, then it simply maintains a status quo in which an outdated "representative government" keeps running this country. Electronic voting is the levelling quantum shift that gives individual voters the power that was lost when we gave that power to our Senators and Congressmen a couple of centuries ago. Let's face it - politicians do NOT want you to trust anything that begins to take their power away.