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ARTS & FARCES internet : When elephants dance And it�s only going to get worse. Hilary B. Rosen, president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) told Congress on 28 February 2001 that the practice of copy-protecting audio CDs would expand in the United States. �If technology can be used to pirate copyrighted content,� Rosen wrote in her response to a Congressional query, �shouldn�t technology likewise be used to protect copyrighted content? Surely, no one can expect copyright owners to ignore what is happening in the marketplace and fail to protect their creative works because some people engage in copying just for their personal use.� Her pal, Michael Eisner, head of Disney, said he was tired of being �finessed� by the technology industry, whatever that means.

{randomly: ok so the grimm brothers never locked up their stuff. no family inherited the patent/copyright whatever. so Disney gets a plotline and a whole tale really they couldn't buy for love or money from the word whores they employ. and that's repeat business there. so they make millions and bazillions off what is essentially what... a dead man's chest? buried treasure? they found the map? but wait, they donated half their gross to societies and associations caring for and nurturing storytellers right? to preserve the holiness of stories. but sadly no. it's all product. and the only sanctity is contract law. which in the christian tradition is a particularly important bugaboo of...that's right kids! Ol' Scratch hisself. God proves time and again to be real flexible where contracts are involved. but the devil gets all wiggy around that dotted line. so ok how about the actual profit margins? webster the dairy farmer even with his 1000 acres and hundreds of moo, he's stuck in the marketplace counting pennies over the expense chart. and it's a constant thing. costs x to produce y. I don't know about movies but it seems like records, sorry CD's aren't frighteningly expensive to create. And aside from a few prominent stars from what I hear music is not rewarded at the source in Mr Eisner's world. No it's metered at the spigot. which is where these graspy little fucks are dancing and howling in pain, or in anticipation thereof. I mean are there titans of the dairy industry? making quadrillion dollar salaries? because milk is sold thruout the land, kids. daily, hourly, by the second. people want it even more than they want their Shania Twain. so how come there's so much monetary splendor in the entertainment industry? well I don't know. is there a little arc a spectrum a whaddayacallit between bread CD's and cocaine? the spread being necessity to fun or something. and oddly enough there's more money the farther you get from necessity. more money for the movers and distributors that is. is that because of regulation or what?
well yeah. as a matter of fact these same spineless greasy fucks would sell bread for the maximum if there wasn't some law in the way of it. same with medicine or anything people wanted. they don't differentiate between necessity and frill you bet. the music the true music of their lives is the sound of termites in the walls of a house. the steady blind scratching of bugs that neither know nor care where they are or what they do.