Comment RIAA Always Needs a Good Scapegoat (Score 1) 4
Too bad legislators actually buy into this nonsense.
Submission + - Elton John: 'Close Down the Internet!' (zeropaid.com)
Jared writes: "Says that it's "destroying good music" and "stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff." Laments the way that the internet and the emerging industry of digital music has created a cold and impersonal world for artists to create new music in. He says that it is "destroying good music, and that "The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff."
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8947/Elton+John%3A+'C lose+Down+the+Internet!'"
Comment COPY of the ACTUAL LETTER SENT TO STUDENTS (Score 1) 406
Submission + - Michael Moore's new "Sicko" leaked on BitT (zeropaid.com)
Jared writes: "Michael Moore went so far as to stash a copy of his new documentary "Sicko," a scathing indictment of the US healthcare system, in Canada over fears the Feds would seize it since a portion of it was filmed in Cuba despite the current US embargo against it. Buyt, it won't matter after all since a copy of it has been leaked on BitTorrent and P2P networks everywhere.
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8846/Michael+Moore's+ new+documentary+%22Sicko%22+leaked+on+BitTorrent"
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8846/Michael+Moore's
Submission + - Pirate Bay to create YouTube competitor
Jared writes: "The site will be modeled after YouTube in that content will be user generated. What will set it apart however, is that there will be "no censorship," that The Pirate Bay "will not be the moral police" and determine what content stays or goes as is oftentimes the case with YouTube. He then hinted that that the community will instead be the censors, that "the community will have to do that.""
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