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Want to demonize an industry? Just use the adjective "big".]]>Apr 27th 2006 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/
Any chance i can get a high-res print-ready version somewhere?]]>Apr 27th 2006 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/
Any chance i can get a high-res print-ready version somewhere?]]>Apr 27th 2006 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/]]>Apr 27th 2006 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/
I just read on some other blog that downloading copyrighted content gets you 10 years federal prison time, downloading kiddy pr0n gets you only 5 – WTF?

But props to that guy coining the term "Big Content" though, I hope it gets lumped into the collective Zeitgeist and associated with "Big Oil".

T]]>Apr 27th 2006 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/Apr 27th 2006 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/
However, I think there's an important flipside that is often ignored. People should tell record labels not to crack down on legitimate consumers, absolutely. But people should also tell their friends and family who fill up their iPods with downloaded music they haven't paid for that they are NOT legitimate consumers.

Goes both ways.]]>Apr 27th 2006 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/Apr 27th 2006 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/Apr 27th 2006 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/
This is great but unfortauntely unless we all become millionaries and "contribute" to the senators all we're get are generic letters and "aw its ok" messages from our "politicians"

Votes don't talk, money talks in Washington. I wish there was something more we could do]]>Apr 27th 2006 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/Apr 27th 2006 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/
http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=115

Takes you straight to a form letter, just fill in your data and it will send it on your behalf.

Do it now. Takes 10 seconds. No one else is going to fight for what is ours to lose. If we want to keep the rights and freedoms we have, WE have to do something about it.

Jake]]>Apr 27th 2006 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/
What he doesn't realize is that there are 'big' consumers too. People who appropriate material on a massive scale. People who download and distribute hundreds of thousands of copies of other people's work.

It is like the drug world. There are the 'pushers' but you really need to concentrate your efforts on squashing the casual user...they are the base that supports the whole dirty industry. So, in the case of music thevery...it is right to come down as HARD as possible on the users and cut the foundation out from under the 'pushers'.

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The black market feeds itself, and if you honestly believe cutting out the person on the bottom doesn't mean the pushers will simply find another buyer, you're as delusional as the people who lock kids up for smoking weed.

You can't lock up enough at the bottom to keep the top stagnant. There's never going to be a time when someone with thousands of dollars of Illegal Whatever (Heroin, Music) sits on it just cause there aren't enough buyers.]]>Apr 27th 2006 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/Apr 27th 2006 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://giantrobotprinting.com/store/shirts/commies/drm
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Gary Shapiro in particular has been leading the charge for DRM for some time now. In my book, DRM is hardly a consumer-friendly technology.]]>Apr 30th 2006 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/May 1st 2006 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/gary-shapiro-and-the-cea-take-a-stand/
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Easy-click email is soon identified for what it is, and gets ignored. Good old hard-copy that fills the bag is what makes them listen, on this issue or on any other.]]>Oct 30th 2006 11:05AM