I sometimes have this thinking that I have a bit of Larry McReynolds inside myself. In the case of Orrin Hatch, he is a songwriter. I saw a friend at church wearing a Natalie Grant tee-shirt which carried the theme of an Orrin Hatch songon that shirt.
As a songwriter, he's tired of the piracy because it hurts him as a writer. Writers aren't as respected as the singers who sing them because the writers have a hidden role compared to the glory of the performer.
But writers have been victimised more than singers, because their living is affected more by a pirated song than a singer. They don't have the concerts or the records. Their living is based on the royalties they make on a song, and the royalties aren't great for the writers than the singers.
Do you mean someone might be punished for being a thief?
when you put it together with the PIRATE Act and Hatch's "tens of thousands of continuing enforcement actions," you have a Department of Justice putting more resources into protecting record and movie companies from copyright infringers than Americans from Osama bin Laden.
Hatch is always willing to carry the water for Eisner and the Gay Day crowd over at Disney. He is the sort of "conservative" that believes the function of government power is to support and enrich government functionaries and the businesses that bribe them.
As far as this being about "artists" or "writers," if the RIAA member organizations were concerned about them they wouldn't use such rapacious tactics to impoverish them. One standard major-label ploy is to require green new acts to use an "approved" attorney from a list: a list of those lawyers who do most of their business with the label, and who will make sure to represent the label's interests while being de jure attorney for the act. It's unethical, but since when was that anything but a word to attorneys?
Another standard, totally bog-standard encroachment the labels do, is require the writer to give up his publishing to the label's captive publishing firm. That's 50% of your royalty, skimmed right off the top.
And now they show up, saying they are concerned about the poor starving writers. Dude, I can tell the difference between a rain shower and someone ****ing on my leg.
Orrin Hatch -- Ted Kennedy's best friend in the Senate -- I wonder what kind of cha-chingg he's getting for this one?
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Note to Hatch: Hey $h!†head, there's MURDERERS and TERRORISTS out there. Get you hands out of your pants, wash 'em, and get back to the PEOPLE'S WORK of ensuring life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The recording industry and their buddies in Congress are years behind current technology and what the consumers actually want to do with their music.
As we get closer to November, the democrats will be finding useful idiot Republicans who have no clue this type of stuff HURTS REPUBLICANS.
Sen. Orrin Hatch R-Utah needs to go don;t vote for him
Of course, Hatch isn't the one up for election this year.
If Palladium takes off, one of its purposes would be to make it impossible for anyone to examine code; a DRM file would contain code which could be executed but not decoded, inspected, or virus-checked. Am I misunderstanding how Palladium works, or should it be code-named "virus heaven"?