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Tax dollars at work for - the RIAA!

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by deepsand

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/154282/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws

No doubt the recording industry is more worthy of funding than is education, since presumably the reason that most attend college is to pirate musical recordings.

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by the scummy one

Now taxpayers need to start paying for devices and software to help the RIAA?
If I lived in KY. I would be doing some writing, and emailing over this sh!t.

And this is not even to mention a 44 Million Dollar shortfall in the budget already, and they are gonna spend almost 10Million on this. Someone needs a linchin

by deepsand

Unfortunately, far too many, including some here, mistakenly conflate free enterprise with capitalism, and are therefore either unable or unwilling to see the evils perpetrated by the latter.

by tony hopkinson

This is abuse of government office. Anyone who doesn't formally! work for the RIAA and put this forward is either corrupt or stupid, perhaps both.

by deepsand

This action happened as a result of the RIAA's desire for such, and its will to use its corporate power, one derived from money, not simply owing to their having been given a gift unsought.

by tony hopkinson

not to use their money however they can to 'erm maximise shareholder value.

I do expect my elected officials to remember who elected them and why.

I mean if they don't think they are serving me badly by taking someone like the RIAA's support in return for some carefully constructed legislation, where's my cut?

by deepsand

From the capitalist's point of view, our "cut" is the "privilege" of being allowed to sweat away in their employ & purchase their goods and/or services.

The days of "company towns" are not so very far away; songs like Merle Travis' "Sixteen Tons" are as timely today as in 1946.

"[i]You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go;
I owe my soul to the company store... [/i]"

by road-dog

This worked here because campus networks are a government service. The solution is a non government one.

If I were a university President, I'd begin talks with a provider and sub out campus network operations. Let RIAA deal with them. I bet a broadband provider would give the school free bandwidth for school servers and possibly a franchise fee for the business.

If negotiated well, I bet this would be a net gain for the schools.

by nicknielsen

Several states require state-funded agencies to utilize the state network. I wouldn't be surprised to find that Tennessee is among them.

by deepsand

Between the truly private institutions on the one hand and the state land grants on the other lies a very large grey area.

That the bill in question applies to "state-funded universities" may or may not make their respective networks "government services."

Particularly noxious is that this is a measure that "the Recording Industry Association of America wants throughout the United States." How is it that private business should be allowed to act in the capacity of quasi-law enforcer?

by tony hopkinson

same words, more emphasis.

And before anyone asks , yes I do own a copy.

The cut I was referring to was the one from my elected official, he wouldn't have got the brown envelope full of unmarked bills but for me, only fair to pass (some of) it on.
:p

by deepsand

But, then, I've always had a blind spot in my memory re. names infrequently used.

The face, though, is unforgettable; reminds me of "Hoss" (Dan Blocker.)

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