Comments on: “You’re not naive enough to think we’re living in a democracy are you?” http://punkassblog.com/2007/05/05/youre-not-naive-enough-to-think-were-living-in-a-democracy-are-you/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:27:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: INotI http://punkassblog.com/2007/05/05/youre-not-naive-enough-to-think-were-living-in-a-democracy-are-you/#comment-40920 INotI Wed, 09 May 2007 20:40:24 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/05/05/youre-not-naive-enough-to-think-were-living-in-a-democracy-are-you/#comment-40920 <blockquote> Business picks up on the ‘we can do whatever we want so nyah!’ vibe and starts to apply it themselves</blockquote> I think you have that backwards. The CEOs and executives running the government learned that in the business world, and brought it into government.

Business picks up on the ‘we can do whatever we want so nyah!’ vibe and starts to apply it themselves

I think you have that backwards. The CEOs and executives running the government learned that in the business world, and brought it into government.

]]> By: Nick http://punkassblog.com/2007/05/05/youre-not-naive-enough-to-think-were-living-in-a-democracy-are-you/#comment-40758 Nick Mon, 07 May 2007 14:24:47 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/05/05/youre-not-naive-enough-to-think-were-living-in-a-democracy-are-you/#comment-40758 What astonishes me is how often this happens, with the RIAA. They cried and cried when free radio came out, and now they get paid for people who just play their music. They cried and cried when cassette tapes became popular, and now they get paid for every such tape sold in the US or Canada. They did the same when recordable CDs arrived. Every time, the nation develops a collective amnesia about the organization's crusade to to be paid every time anyone hears the "intellectual property" that they coerced away from the artist who created it. I have no doubt that the eventual result of the filesharing fight will be a tax on net traffic that just hands the RIAA some fraction of a cent for every bit of data transferred, ever, forever, because it might be "stolen music". What astonishes me is how often this happens, with the RIAA. They cried and cried when free radio came out, and now they get paid for people who just play their music. They cried and cried when cassette tapes became popular, and now they get paid for every such tape sold in the US or Canada. They did the same when recordable CDs arrived. Every time, the nation develops a collective amnesia about the organization’s crusade to to be paid every time anyone hears the “intellectual property” that they coerced away from the artist who created it.

I have no doubt that the eventual result of the filesharing fight will be a tax on net traffic that just hands the RIAA some fraction of a cent for every bit of data transferred, ever, forever, because it might be “stolen music”.

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