Comment it's not just audiogalaxy, it's precedent. (Score 1) 392
I think that we need to look at this decision more closely. This radically alters the nature of IP in America.
The point here is not that they shut down audiogalaxy, it's that the precedent set is quite simple...If you do not have specific permission to touch this IP, you cannot. This hereby executes the concept of public domain anything. It can't be public domain if I have to specifically allow each bit of IP I own to be shared, I now have to actively promote it's trade. Items which have no copyright owner, or none that can be found, are simply dead. What happens when the copyrights expire?
This isn't about controlling copyrighted works. This is about killing off buzz engines that aren't under the knee of RIAA. RIAA's CD sales are down, but the indy scene is more alive and vibrant than ever. Every indy listener I know lives on AG (this town has country stations, public radio, and, surprise! Clear Channel Communications.)
RIAA would like to drown out the entire world of independant music. Laws like this serve only to restrict any scene without a corporate mother to clear each track as it goes up. Combined with artificial cost increases in the Internet Radio business, and what you have is simply corporate domination through elimination of any inexspensive way for artists and fans to have a real international scene, idea machine, and society.
WTF is this...I have to opt-out to have privacy and peace, but opt-in to b e heard. Who's your daddy?
The point here is not that they shut down audiogalaxy, it's that the precedent set is quite simple...If you do not have specific permission to touch this IP, you cannot. This hereby executes the concept of public domain anything. It can't be public domain if I have to specifically allow each bit of IP I own to be shared, I now have to actively promote it's trade. Items which have no copyright owner, or none that can be found, are simply dead. What happens when the copyrights expire?
This isn't about controlling copyrighted works. This is about killing off buzz engines that aren't under the knee of RIAA. RIAA's CD sales are down, but the indy scene is more alive and vibrant than ever. Every indy listener I know lives on AG (this town has country stations, public radio, and, surprise! Clear Channel Communications.)
RIAA would like to drown out the entire world of independant music. Laws like this serve only to restrict any scene without a corporate mother to clear each track as it goes up. Combined with artificial cost increases in the Internet Radio business, and what you have is simply corporate domination through elimination of any inexspensive way for artists and fans to have a real international scene, idea machine, and society.
WTF is this...I have to opt-out to have privacy and peace, but opt-in to b e heard. Who's your daddy?
