[Rictor]

http://amish.blogmosis.com/archives/012511.html


update: seems Mr.Hatch is using some JavaScript on his site that goes against the terms of the license agreement of the script makers...



OOPS

[Nico]

lt's send Tiara to his home so she axe-chops his computer

[Top Gun]

Surprize, Surprize

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[Bobboau]

http://www.hatchmusic.com/

[Stryke 9]

I won't claim I can do better, aside from the lyrics, but **** man, what were you thinking?

[Nico]

"looks at album names and music titles"

oh, I get it, now

[aldo_14]

At six years old, Orrin began taking piano lessons. Knowing how to play the piano gave him confidence to advance to the organ and violin.

Like many young boys, Orrin enjoyed playing with his organ

[DragonClaw]

Bleh, this is just another idiot who knows absolutely nothing about the digital age trying to stop something he knows absolutely nothing about. He's proposing something and he doesn't even have the slightest idea how to carry it out. Politicians are Satan's spawn, I tell ya.

Originally posted by an0n
Like many young boys, Orrin enjoyed playing with his organ

He has one?

[aldo_14]

He's probably bitter because nobody will pirate his music (and I use music in the loosest sense)

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Bobboau
Oh I hope this gets passed, the ***** slap the hacker community would unleash upon them would be legendary

Haha!  That is good...thats definately quoteable in a strange sort of way

The door opens both ways...you can't just do it one way without getting feedback from it the other way.  Seriously, how do these senators get into power?  They seem to be the most power hungry, lowest IQ, highest radicalist in the state, with little or no understanding of the common family values, beliefs or traditions, and even less understanding of their childrens values, beliefs, and traditions...what is wrong with these people?  How can we expect them to represent a state or a country when they are so self absorbed.

This file sharing paranoia has gone on far too long.  RIAA needs to get their heads out of the sand and so do the record companies.  The long days of their ultimate control over who's music gets published and who's doesn't are starting to fade.  The internet bypasses this middle-man kind of monopoly that the record companies enjoy at the moment.  Their monopoly has been made obsolete...the are just having a hard time hanging on.  The new iTunes from Apple is the kind of proof I have been hoping for.  Get a clue record companies, 99 cents a song is fantastic.  People want music, they want it now, they want what they want to listen to, and they want to be able to take it everywhere with them.  There is demand, why is there no supply.

Sorry, I'm ranting.  I really want this whole filesharing thing to go to the next level where its 100% legal and the people who made the music get the recognition and the financial compensation they deserve.

[Bobboau]

actualy he is from Utah,
he probly does reprsent there views

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[Rictor]

I'm all for filesharing (I dont think I've bought music for like 6-7 years and now the concept sounds absurd to me) but I do agree that there is a bad side to it. Ultimately, most people will download most of their music, cause very few people want to pay unecessarily. Then, you create a situation where the musicians are getting little to no money, so where is the incentive for them to make good music? I mean there will always be concerts, merchandise and even people buying the music, but I think that it could have a negative effect on the quality and quantity of music thats being put out.

However, this guy has no idea what he's talking about.

edit: ya, just noticed that. How many more hardline Christian fundamentalists are going to get into power. Bush is bad enough, now this guy, and others as well

[Bobboau]

the incentive to make the music should be for the art, if someone does not want me to DL there music I generaly don't want to already.

[Kamikaze]

unfortunately that sort of idealogy is largely unrealizeable in today's materialistic world....

[Bobboau]

no acutaly there are a lot of artist who are quite in suport of the file shareing, I beleve weazer even got into truble for actualy putting one of there albums on there site for people to DL freely

[Kamikaze]

Do they support file sharing like kazaa with no pay-to-download? (I'm assuming so 'cause you said freely) If so that's quite an amazing commitment.

[01010]

You'd find that most artists income comes from merchandise and touring, even highly rated artists make little more that £0.60 per album sold, which is disgusting given that at the end of the day, it's their art that is making sales.

I think file sharing is the death knell to the record industry and it's not without due time because they are leeches that suck eveything that is good and pure within music and they represent neither the art nor the artisan.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by 01010
You'd find that most artists income comes from merchandise and touring, even highly rated artists make little more that £0.60 per album sold, which is disgusting given that at the end of the day, it's their art that is making sales.

I think file sharing is the death knell to the record industry and it's not without due time because they are leeches that suck eveything that is good and pure within music and they represent neither the art nor the artisan.

hey, it's all 'the bottom line' for them, not the amount of soul that goes into the music..

[Bobboau]

lets think about something for a moment,
it takes me, an individual, roughly $0.20 to make a CD
the corperation with the big huge automated CD burnatrons (in otherwords it probly costs them less) sell the same CD for $7.00-$20.00.
just think about that.

[Turnsky]

exactly, it's not like blank discs are expensive and made out of solid gold is it?

they get a large chunk out of what most artists pour all thier creative talent into (britney spears doesn't count, she has no talent)

and this makes the record companies more evil than microsoft..