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http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=327297 Do we have any musically inclined types around here? I'd be interested in the view that musicians with a hope of selling their product or service to the public, resident around here, and without currently a contract with a large recording business of the sort represented in the story linked above, take on the effects of networked distribution of music. I would suggest that unless it is exactly the same as is held by the RIAA and the UK lady and org referred to above, that they make arrangements to make it known in a suitably restrained, well-phrased, and definite form to our local MP/s. Janis Ian's (http://www.siliconvalley.com/images/siliconvalley/siliconvalley/3914/15322424436.jpg) widely quoted and linked piece on the music industry and the Internet is worth reading, http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html as it the reprise on it http://www.janisian.com/article-fallout.html EFF comment on this at http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/20020815_eff_pr.html and /. http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/09/1218204.shtml?tid=141 and elsewhere, easily found via Google. There is a definite convergence of free software and Internet freedom and public interest here and it seems to me to merit involvement by LUGs to at least form and pass on a view to our political representatives. I'm happy to collate, or to observe or to work on a consensus document. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
