Comments on: Share a File, Burn in Hell

By: Lawrence Dunn

Lawrence Dunn — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:13:15 +0000

As a student of a music conservertoire, I use the college subscription to Naxos Music Library, a service that allows me to stream all of the music on the Naxos label, and those labels it owns. This is an enormous amount of music, probably more than 90% of the total classical repertoire. Without it I would be lost.

I won’t reveal it, but there is an extraordinarily easy way to obtain access to the service if you are a non-student. But it is a fantastically useful resource, and a source of immense pleasure to me. So far, I have revealed the ‘secret’, as it were, to only one other person, who I have immense trust in, and is a musician and thinker of utter conviction. But I’m sure anyone, if they tried for long enough, would be able to obtain access to the service.

By: Steve Layton

Steve Layton — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:41:28 +0000

It was written by a non-profit oragization; but if you follow these things at all, the particular overreaching and dubious legal assumptions illustrated have their source in ploys used by both the RIAA and MPAA. They’ve been creating nightmare “victim” scenarios: one for the industry as a whole, another supposedly for the artist, and now for the “perpetrators”. In each there’s an almost a sense of orchestrated hysteria, whose sole purpose is to use in their lobbying bids to secure even more draconian copyright lockdowns for their industry. And it wasn’t written for “grade-schoolers”; it was specifically targeted to colleges and universities. I think part of it was more to cow the schools themselves, as much as the students.

By: Seth Gordon

Seth Gordon — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:05:52 +0000

The latest RIAA/MPAA tactic? Enlist a non-profit â€œjusticeâ€ organization

And where, exactly, does it state that this comic had any connection to the RIAA or MPAA?

Jeez, it’s a frickin’ educational pamphlet about the court system written for grade-schoolers. Wow. They picked a general topic that’s been in the news and would be familiar to their target demographic. Go figure.

Do y’all see conspiracies in everything?

By: Robert Bonotto

Robert Bonotto — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:16:10 +0000

CHORUS: We are the hollow agents, we are the agents of hollow.

COMPOSER I (to another composer at dinner table): Are you going to eat — uh, fileshare that?

CHORUS: We are the dreamer of dreams.

COMPOSER II: Um … no, you can have it.

CHORUS: Vengence is ours.

COMPOSER I: Cool. (takes it)

(suddenly bells and sirens go off all over the stage. Chairman Mao, Richard Nixon, Gertrude Stein, and Virgil Thomson all come on stage)

STEIN: Oh, yes he did it he did it oh yes yes yes he did hey yes he did and it was bad and yes oh yes he did it.

JAMES JOYCE (yelling from audience): HEY!! Those lines are MINE!

(all exeunt)

By: Combs

Combs — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:19:39 +0000

Shady Guy: Pssss. hey, you, ya you!

Ms. Robbins: Yes?

SG: You wanna buy some illegal shit?

Ms. Robbins: I, I don’t know.

SG: Some hardcore copyrighted shit, make you feel good……

Ms. Robbins: Well maybe just this once.

Ms. Robbins hands SG 100 dollars and at once 20 G-Men jump from surrounding rooftops and promptly take Ms. Robbins in to custody.

SG takes off shady garb and reveals G-Man uniform. He turns to the news camera: “That was one bad deal for Ms. Robbins. Don’t Do CI!”