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Re: (TV) bummer



On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 17:52:44 +0000
Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> No problem, pretty soon Sony's "rootkit"-based DRM will soon have 
> completely trashed everybody's computers and they won't be able to read 
> the sites anyway.

Not so - those of us not under the thrall of MickeySoft haven't had our
machines compromised at all.

I'd noticed some time back that a number of guitar sites had taken to
posting songs with only lyrical snippets, like this:

D           Bm                G       A             D
Docks...  A whisper woke...       ....water would resume.

One wonders just how copyrightable just a chord sequence is.

I have to say, though, that it pisses me off righteously that they
now see musicians themselves as the enemy, at least if they look on
the Internet for someone else's songs, or even their own!

I saw Leo Kottke a couple of years ago, and he told the story of wanting
to do one of his early pieces in his show, and couldn't for the life of
him remember how it went, so he went on the net and found that someone had
tabbed it out, and he used that to re-learn the tune!

Michael Stipe from REM has also famously had to go to the net and download
song lyrics (especially It's The End Of The World As We Know It) because he
can 't remember them.

It's all going to come back and bite the RIAA and the labels in the ass,
just not soon enough for many people's liking.

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