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Month: February 2001

Published on February 14, 2001

Everybody wants a piece of Napster’s pie… Since the federal court’s ruling on monday which could effectively shut the service down, everyone has been trying to get a piece of the estimated 50 million strong user base. The Recording Industry has been celebrating this as a huge win in their battle to “defend the intellectual property rights” of it’s artists (read: defend their profits) … My problem with this whole thing has nothing to do with intellectual property rights – in fact, I agree that artists should be compensated fairly for their work – I am an artist myself, and I would like to make some money off my craft – my problem is with the way the RIAA, Hillary Rosen, et al, have been going about this – “The Big Five” are only interested in staying “The Big Five” – and they use litigation to do it. When less than $1 of every $20 CD sold goes to the artist, I have a hard time believing that the labels are all that concerned about compensating their artists fairly. I also think they’re insane to think that shutting down Napster is going to help their cause in any way. They’re only going to succeed in pissing off about 50 million music lovers – music lovers who have been buying more CD’s, not less, in the time that Napster has existed. People will find other ways to share music – there is no doubt about it – if the RIAA had worked with napster to develop a paid legitimate file sharing program, at least they would have had a chance to reach at least some of the 50 million – instead, they chose to alienate them.

Published on February 13, 2001

Blog By Night News! – Comments are back! BlogVoices has been resurrected and we have comments back! (actually, BlogVoices wasn’t really out for all that long – it just took me this long to re-implement the scripts) Just click on the .d. after any post and gimme hell! Tell me what you think of my links! Tell me what you think of my opinions! Tell me I’m an idiot! Discuss the news of the day! Whatever! Enjoy! (what’s with all the !’s… gotta watch them)

Published on February 13, 2001

The Oscar Nominees have been announced – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Gladiator are up for 10 awards each. I really hope Crouching Tiger does well… I really don’t give a shit about any of the other movies nominated – except O Brother Where Art Thou? which got 2 nominations for Cinematography and Writing. What a bad year for movies. Though I highly recommend both Crouching Tiger and O Brother… I haven’t seen Almost Famous, which I think I would like.

Published on February 12, 2001

Oh my god – You’d think that since I am a web designer and all, that I’d have the presence of mind to test my site in multiple browsers when I launch a new look. Nope – I just looked at my site in Netscape for the first time today – it looks like ASS! Shit de merde- I’m gonna have to mess with it some… Netscape is a great big pile of poo!
Update: fixed! I just made a little change to my css and all looks good now! (at least on my machine with my versions of the browsers… if the site doesn’t look right to you e-mail me)

Published on February 9, 2001

Rectilinear kittens not funny, says FBI – Wow… this story just won’t end! Apparently FBI agents in the Boston field office have launched an investigation into the site. Don’t they have some internet pedophiles to catch or something? Too much…

Published on February 9, 2001

Sick – So he had a bad childhood… poor fucking bastard. Charles Smith, a Newport, Rhode Island man who murdered his 16-year-old stepdaughter and had sex with her corpse, won’t be getting off because of this shit-lame excuse. Thank christ.