Here we go again. Ranting and raving at the recording industry, and encouraging boycotts and petitions and holding your breath till your face turns blue are (a) pointless and (b) not winamp related.
bruce -- Bruce Toews Skype ID: o.canada E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: DogRiver@xxxxxxxx LiveJournal: http://brucetola.livejournal.com Radio Show and Podcast: http://www.totw.net Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, James Mannion wrote:
This isa very disappointing thing for people like myself that have playlists full of internetradio stations I have liked to listen to and they are dropping off rapidly already. This prove the absolute stupidity of the recording industry as they are too greedy and absolutely stupid to see they are surpressing something that helps them more than hurts them. People should vote with their dollars and refuse to purchase CDs to show that we are not going to reward the recording industry's selfishness and stupidity in what they are doing. I believe these people do not understand the internet and just refuse to even make any attempt to understand it and what it really means to them. They prefer to cling to their own ideas regardless if they are correct or not. Obviously the judges response indicates a motivation to be stubern and not to even be willing to look at things with any reasoning. The recording industry has a lot of money to throw at their stubbern ajenda instead of looking at any of this with logical reasoning. > From: aman@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: Judges Reject Appeals From Webcasters> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:48:23 -0400> > Hi, Ron.> Actually, this means the effective end of independent American> music-based Internet Radio. While the day may come when this American> precedent may be followed in other countries, that day is not yet here, and> whether/when it will come is an interesting question. Again, the history of> copyright issues in other countries does not seem to indicate that this will> be followed, at least not soon and not with the same kind of enforcement.> While I agree this is a very bad event for the internet radio industry in> the United States, and that it is against the interests of everyone except> perhaps the short-term interests of the record companies, I think calling it> the end of internet radio is rather strong. > Aman > > -----Original Message-----> From: winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [mailto:winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ron Canazzi> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:59 PM> To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Judges Reject Appeals From Webcasters> > And this means the effective end of independent Internet Radio.> > Within 2 years, Internet broadcasting will be like cable TV: Five people > determining what ye shall hear and what ye shall see.> > > To post a message to the list, send it to winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send a message to:> winamp4theblind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.> Archives located at:> //www.freelists.org/archives/winamp4theblind>> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or> the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list directly. Instead, please contact> the list owners at winamp4theblind-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
