If I believed that the artists who penned the songs, rather than the record companies who publish them, would be the ones making the money it would rile me less. But yes, I imagine that sites will slowly wither and die.
My true point, I think was what I said in the second comment down, that I conceive of the net as a public library of a sort. With access to song lyrics and Shakespeare.
And, possibly wrongly I think of ISP fees as community tax.
I regret the fact that I can now conceive of a near future in which all information housed on the net will be passworded away for access via cash.
A little like access to the Athens university network maybe? In which poorer colleges have access to some e-journals and richer colleges have access to all?
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Date: 2007-06-01 06:27 pm (UTC)My true point, I think was what I said in the second comment down, that I conceive of the net as a public library of a sort. With access to song lyrics and Shakespeare.
And, possibly wrongly I think of ISP fees as community tax.
I regret the fact that I can now conceive of a near future in which all information housed on the net will be passworded away for access via cash.
A little like access to the Athens university network maybe? In which poorer colleges have access to some e-journals and richer colleges have access to all?
And wasn't that a tangent?