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[Andy Green]

Guy Fraser wrote:

> Mac and Linux Users : Music execs should quit whining or we will dump
> their music.

Check out http://jamendo.com for good Creative Commons -licensed music
you can download for free, completely outside the existing system and
with the blessing of the creators.

> Unfortunately most politicians are easy to bribe, and can usually be

I don't think this reflects the reality.  Many, perhaps most politicians
are there because they want to 'do the right thing' and get a kick out
of it.  The big problem comes not from overt corruption (although that
is a problem when MSFT is hiring from its supposed regulators) but from
the binding together of news media interests with the content
industries.  This is a very scary proposition for a politician to go
against the demands of these content industries when they have
'punishment tools' like tabloid hounds on their books which are happy to
dig/manufacture whatever career-destroying dirt they can and splash it.
  Even good political people have to swallow faced with that implicit
threat.  I guess that's why we see the 'suicide 20' congressfolks in the
states standing up for the broadcast flag, which no independent voter
wants or thinks is a good idea.

> Buying and stealing music is a two edged sword :

Copyright infringement is not theft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States

Check out Jamendo and the increasing availability of relatively
liberally licensced music in Podcasts, etc: you may find you can meet
most or all your music needs totally outside the mainstream just like
Linux and GPL software meets almost all my software needs outside the
mainstream and with no question about the legitimacy of the licensing.

-Andy
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