On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 09:24 -1000, david wrote: > Vince Werber wrote: > > > On a lark I surfed over to Matt Drudge's web site (www.drudgereport.com) to > > see if there was anything new on the ASCAP lawsuits and lo and behold... > > There is a story about Sir Elton wanting to shut down the web because he > > thinks the web music people are in some way causing a problem with music... > > Sir Elton is just mouthing the fundamental RIAA issue with the web. good grief, did you even read/listen to what he had to say? it has absolutely nothing to do with the net as a distribution/retail/exchange medium. his comments were primarily about the impact that music technology and the internet have on the social aspects of art production and consumption. he really didn't say much at all about money, power or control. and i think that he is right, at least in part. however, scapegoating technology for magnifying an existing feature of human life doesn't make much sense to me. it was always the case that social, gregarious people got together with other such people in person, and less social people did not and hungered for other ways to interact with people. the internet makes various kinds of social interaction and collaboration that were unthinkable 30 years ago, and for the most part, this seems like its probably a good thing, even though more people are making music alone. --p _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
