Apple files did not play on Zune etc
Apple files did not play on Zune etc. Basically the labels gave away control of the medium and while they manufactured LPs, music cassettes and CDs themselves, they had no control over digital music files.
aqian100317 Sure, hackers and bored kids will unlock the files, but that percentage might not be much larger than the CDs that used to “fall” off the loading dock. I also think that copyright has to be changed. Not 100 years, not even 75 years. Maybe 25 years, but with strict government enforcement.Hold Ebay responsible for every russian pirate CD they sell, hold Rapidshare responsible for every copyrighted file being shared, hold YouTube responsible for any copyright infringement. (((PS: when we order CDs from our manufacturer we have to fill out a dozen pages of information that is required by law and is there for the manufacturer’s protection.
Among other info we have to state the name of every song and that we own the copyright. That kind of information should be required for every Ebay/RapidShare/YouTube transaction/upload. When you buy a car you want the seller’sYou should read the whole thing!! Ai Weiwei on Wikipedia Ai Weiwei’s web site and blog.
Deliver us from evil On July 3 I saw the dress rehearsal for the Lincoln Center Festival presentation of Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten. As all early signs indicated, it’s an astonishing experience; details will follow in a New Yorker review. Unfortunately, the only tickets still available for the run ??” 7/5 to 7/12 ??” are in the $150-250 range;cheaper seats are all gone. There’s a video preview at the New York Times website. (Via Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise) Great! 18 percussionists, 110 musicians, a wagon that moves a thousand people… check out the video preview. From the Lincoln Center web site:
The 110-piece Bochumer Symphoniker and its enormous percussion section ??” along with a jazz combo and forty singers, actors and dancers ??” quotes Bach amid Zimmermann???s twelve-tone composition and shares a multimedia palette with taped.