Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : The *NEW* Frank Coluccio Technology Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (485)	7/21/2000 4:05:09 PM
From: ftth	Respond to of 46821

You're all right in my book Mike. Hollywood can solve their own problem. Just stop producing the aftermarket stuff completely. Then there'd be no source of their precious product to copy. Problem solved. What a shame that'd be, 'eh!

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (485)	7/22/2000 9:45:53 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Hi Mike, Re: PS Might as well throw in one of my mini-rants I noted the brevity of your attempt, sir. Here's something that is a tad extended and was something of an eye-opener for me regarding the efforts of the RIAA to do all it can to its artists. Unlike the Mel Gibsons of this world, one would have to feel that if Courtney Love is correct, musicians are among the most under-rewarded of artists. In the same league as painters, sculptors, body artists, and comedians. :) salon.com This one passage really sums up for me why I think the rest of the US needs to consider seceding from Beltropolis and all the ill it represents: <snip> Last November, a Congressional aide named Mitch Glazier, with the support of the RIAA, added a "technical amendment" to a bill that defined recorded music as "works for hire" under the 1978 Copyright Act. He did this after all the hearings on the bill were over. By the time artists found out about the change, it was too late. The bill was on its way to the White House for the president's signature. That subtle change in copyright law will add billions of dollars to record company bank accounts over the next few years -- billions of dollars that rightfully should have been paid to artists. A "work for hire" is now owned in perpetuity by the record company. <end snip> Glazier was subsequently employed by the RIAA as its chief Washington lobbyist. Everyone gets rich, but those who deserve it. The meek shall not inherit the earth, more likely they'll end up in debt. In MVH and incensed O, this midnight chicanery is reason enough to vote all da bums out. Except, obviously, with no public discussion of the amendment wording, and no congressional scrutiny, the only ones we can point the finger at are the lobbyists and their bribed sycophants in the executive branch. I don't mind paying $8 for a movie ticket, but I deeply resent the perversion of "the rule of law" by self-serving special interests. Particularly when the eventual victims of their theft are the very cultural heroes we all admire and enjoy, many of whom won't have great second careers to see themselves through. And that, Mike, ends my mini-rant. :) Best, Ray