Here I'm allowed everything all of the time
The increase in [counterfeit/pirate] seizures is due to the RIAA’s increasing aggressiveness as a crime-fighting paramilitary organization. But it is a good illustration of the desperate Sophism with which the industry seeks to lay the blame for its own failures on someone else’s shoulders. The strategy is simple: criminalize a group of people, then blame …
… or biting the hand(s) that feed you … In 1978, record sales began to fall, and the major labels blamed a larcenous new technology: cassette tapes. The international industry even had an outraged official slogan: “Home taping is killing music.”
There are a lot of negative (and many even frightening) things going on in the world and society right now…. I myself know that I let lots of things “get” to me a lot of the time – from traffic to annoying or rude people, sitting around and criticizing this and that etc.
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“Microsoft’s controlling behavior has been characteristic of monopolists throughout history. Rather than change with the market, they try to bend the market to their will. In the end, the companies themselves wound up bending to the breaking point.” …
