Important article in
the International Herlad Tribune by Thomas Cranston called Confessions
of Criminals of the digital age. Some rad French citizens who belong to the group StopDRM staged civil
disobedience of a kind to demonstrate their anti-DRM (Digital Rights
Management) grievances. The punitive copywrite protection techniques employed
by record companies make making mixtapes for your friends terrifically
tedious, so all artists-getting-their-due concerns aside I am so with them.
On the other side of
the globe the pro-DRM Forces begin indoctrination early as Boy Scout age, the
AP and endgadget
report. Troop Leaders in Los Angeleare handing out merit badges for not sharing
music illegally, which is so fucking fascist it’s shocking. And I say ‘shocking’ with the same arch, indignant and English-accented way Madonna did in her Oprah interview. Shoh-cking.
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