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[freepatriot32]

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[tubebender]

Good one!!!

[cgbg]

I saw that hearing on CSPAN.

Sununu was fantastic!

It is rare these days when I want to give a Republican politician a standing ovation but Sununu really gets it.

Keep the stupid government regulators out of our face.

The American flag is the only flag needed, thank you.

[ndt]

The greatest danger has passed I believe (hope).

When a new technology emerges, is easy to make it sound dangerous and destructive. Now however, MP3 players have become the de facto standard in portable music. They are so common , that even some of the more decrepit members of the legislative body know what it is and what it does. The RIAA will not find it so easy to mask it under an aura shadowy danger.

[adamsjas]

With that simple question, the octogenarian Senator encapsulated arguments about place-shifting, interoperability, and fair use that would have taken whole federal dockets to explain a few years ago.

As much bad press as he gets, this is a typical Stevens setup. I'd wager the whole thing was planned, and the "we gotta pass this" attitude was for show, but he knew all along there would be objections, and he had no intention of voting for it.

The fact that an 80 year old knows what an Ipod is good for is telling of his savy. And being from alaska he's seen enough corporate rape jobs to know what the record industry is after.

I'm hopeing this goes no where. They are OUR airwaves, and if you don't want us recording it, then keep your gutter trash music off our air.

[Wilhelm Tell]

That is great! That really unmasked the greed behind all the hysteria. If some people had their way, all books would disintegrate after being read the first time! If you wanted to read a book a second time, you would have to buy a second copy. If you bought a reference book, you would have to pay a "maintenance fee" every time you used it or the book would disappear!

[Swordmaker]

Do we really need this law... PING!

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[operation clinton cleanup]

Of course, under the RIAA's proposed controls, you may not: this is "disaggregation" in their language.

Cmon' now they are just making stuff up! That can't be a real word.

[Paul C. Jesup]

"The suggestion is that if we don't do this, it will stifle creativity. Well...we have now an unprecedented wave of creativity and product and content development...new business models, and new methodologies for distributing this content. The history of government mandates is that it always restricts innovation...why would we think that this one special time, we're going to impose a statutory government mandate on technology, and it will actually encourage innovation?" The second revelation, dropped into the later discussion of the RIAA's audio flag, was that Senator Stevens' daughter bought him an iPod.

Finally someone in the Senate understands the issues. And that someone is Republican Senator John Sununu.

And if that was all. Hehehehe...

"The suggestion is that if we don't do this, it will stifle creativity. Well...we have now an unprecedented wave of creativity and product and content development...new business models, and new methodologies for distributing this content. The history of government mandates is that it always restricts innovation...why would we think that this one special time, we're going to impose a statutory government mandate on technology, and it will actually encourage innovation?" The second revelation, dropped into the later discussion of the RIAA's audio flag, was that Senator Stevens' daughter bought him an iPod.

This is unhappy news for the RIAA. Once again, their representative was forced to burst into praises of MP3 players (a technology his organization attempted to sue out of existence in 1998).

And when Stevens asked whether with the audio flag in place he would be able to record from the radio and put the shows onto his iPod: that's when the RIAA's Mitch Bainwol really began to sweat.

Rolling on the floor laughing as freedom wins out today. LOL!!

[SunkenCiv]

"The suggestion is that if we don't do this, it will stifle creativity. Well...we have now an unprecedented wave of creativity and product and content development...new business models, and new methodologies for distributing this content. The history of government mandates is that it always restricts innovation...why would we think that this one special time, we're going to impose a statutory government mandate on technology, and it will actually encourage innovation?"

I don't regard piracy as creativity. However, the RIAA has a history of being on the wrong side of issues, such as its opposition to the sale of used CDs. I'm reminded of John Dvorak's remark in InfoWorld nearly 20 years ago -- where but in the software industry can one take a $1 program, put it on a 50 cent diskette, slip it into a $2 paper box, sell it for $500, and spend the rest of one's time complaining that one can't make any money?