Some rumblings of discontent in the tech community with one of President Obama's picks for the Department of Justice.
Where do you stand on music filesharing? If you do it, the law is not on your side. But what about ethics? What responsibility do we have to properly credit and pay people who create original works? What's the effect of filesharing on the market? How does this matter?
Friday, February 20, 2009
Obama names RIAA lawyer to DOJ
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This sucks.
The RIAA is a shady bunch of scumbags who know their industry is on its deathbed and are belligerently and illogically lashing out through an ill-conceived legal recourse for some last bits of cash before they die off.
The claims made by the RIAA and this Verrill guy are speculation at best, but more likely are deliberate deception. The RIAA has no credibility in my mind, mainly due to the fact that they have always claimed to represent labels and artists that they don't. They are liars, and that's fact.
I do think that the practice of accumulating music without paying for almost all of it is unethical however. I download tons of music but I wind up buying what I like and deleting what I don't like.
I guess the more important part of this story is: Surprise! Obama is a corporate shill just like every other politician in the two party system.
He has done a pretty good job so far, I think, especially considering he has to put up with a mass of very diabolical, very fickle and very stupid republican congresspeople (and an even dumber constituency!).
Nonetheless, the illusion that our politicians, including Obama, aren't slaves to or co-conspirators with the modern-day nobles is sad and pathetic.
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