Well, this just plain sucks!
I'll try and update with the link to the active posting site.
This is just plain sick and wrong.
DNC alies with RIAA!...and a coalition with this dirtbags is one of the DNC biggest blindspots.
http://kos.dailykos.com/
Here in Oregon-beyond already shutting down our library systems, we are looking a summarily terminating our Public broadcast systems as well.
This due to a bill sponsored by Al Gore which mandates an automatic switching to a digital broadcast format which on average costs each independent station 18 million dollars.
Most independents will simply shut down in 2009.
How does apply to the RIAA-these are the record industry hacks who are trying to perpetuate the same studio/distribution system that ripped off creators rights as far back as the 1950s.
Think Elvis and Col whats-his-face, among sooo many others.
Well, by suing college students and at-home mothers, the RIAA is trying to weasel it's way into the new millenium.
The RIAA is utilizing morally bankrupt legal practices which steal artists's creative properties without giving them a dime.
They also champion ripping off their artists by forcing them to sign over rights to publicly-traded corporations, whose stockholders are only too happy to sell to whatever advertising campaign ponies up the big bucks.
Finally, the RIAA are the foremost champions of the DRMA act (spelled wrong-think digital rights millenium act)...
Which is an act which essentially mandates digital watermarks, an inability to copy things you've legally purchased, and a fundamental assualt to the freedom of information, which is one of the cornerstones that made this country great!
I despise these idiots, and the DNC has compromised itself once again.
-LB!