Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use - washingtonpost.com
Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use - washingtonpost.com: "The industry's lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are 'unauthorized copies' of copyrighted recordings."
Happy almost New Year. I haven't really spent a ton of time thinking about this subject nor do I have much expertise at all in regards to this topic, but I will say that I find it a funny, ironic microcosm of our world now.
Things have changed so much in just the past decade for both good and bad. We can now contact anyone anywhere at any time - truly revolutionary if you think about it. We can store so much information so quickly it honestly boggles the mind sometimes and more often than not I think my electronics are in a lot of ways much smarter than me due to the sheer amount of information they hold.
We have also eclipsed other milestones: we are now ~8 billion strong, us humans, and are having profound effects on our civilization due to our numbers. We are also having profound effects on our earth and our fellow species. We are inter-connected in such ways now such as we have never been but at the same time we are distant from the reality that this one story points to so clearly:
Change is happening and we all need to change along with it. We must not look at this amazing technology we have available, whether you talk about hybrid cars or burning CD's, with disdain and with hope that we can put the genie back in the bottle. We must embrace the change and look at it as an opportunity to develop ourselves further. I know this is not easy when you are sitting there as the Exxon CEO or the RIAA and thinking of the millions you used to see rolling in day by day and the risk you run by embracing change, but we need to. The time is now for the folks with the money and the power to wake up and embrace the revolution all ready happening.
Happy almost New Year. I haven't really spent a ton of time thinking about this subject nor do I have much expertise at all in regards to this topic, but I will say that I find it a funny, ironic microcosm of our world now.
Things have changed so much in just the past decade for both good and bad. We can now contact anyone anywhere at any time - truly revolutionary if you think about it. We can store so much information so quickly it honestly boggles the mind sometimes and more often than not I think my electronics are in a lot of ways much smarter than me due to the sheer amount of information they hold.
We have also eclipsed other milestones: we are now ~8 billion strong, us humans, and are having profound effects on our civilization due to our numbers. We are also having profound effects on our earth and our fellow species. We are inter-connected in such ways now such as we have never been but at the same time we are distant from the reality that this one story points to so clearly:
Change is happening and we all need to change along with it. We must not look at this amazing technology we have available, whether you talk about hybrid cars or burning CD's, with disdain and with hope that we can put the genie back in the bottle. We must embrace the change and look at it as an opportunity to develop ourselves further. I know this is not easy when you are sitting there as the Exxon CEO or the RIAA and thinking of the millions you used to see rolling in day by day and the risk you run by embracing change, but we need to. The time is now for the folks with the money and the power to wake up and embrace the revolution all ready happening.
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