For example, I saw Garth Brooks on the Tonight Show make a statement to the effect that not even his grandchildren could ever spend all the money he has made. A couple of weeks later he was in the news crying about how file sharing was taking money out of his pocket. Make up your minds you big cry babies!

If your goal is to show how convoluted and imbicile the CFRA is, then I support your efforts. But the story at hand was about a call for F-9/11 to be banned, without mention of any of the other sources you list. So, while YOU may support an all-or-nothing approach, the folks in congress (and the GOP/Dems) don’t seem to agree. That was my point.

Mike Farrell:

You ask, Why must there be a dichotomy between legality, morality, and ethics? Should legality lead or follow morality and ethics?

This is a yes and no answer. Yes, legality follows morality, but the extent to which “morality” is legally enforced is limited, in the case of a consitutional republic like ours, by the constitution. That document posits that man is endowed a set of inalienable rights: life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness (and, property). The role of GOVERNMENT in this constitutional republic is to protect the negative rights of its citizens. However, its powers of enforcement are limited to those inalienable rights. In other words, it was “morality” that brought us the idea of those inalienable rights, and therefore, “legality” follows morality. But the founders also sought to protect the people from the tyranny of the majority, i.e., legally enforced subjective morality. This is why they sought to restrict the power of the state to enforcement of those inalienable rights. They did not want, for example, 50.1% of the people to say “it is morally wrong for women to show their ankles, therefore, we shall make it illegal for everyone”. Time and time again, they warned against the evils of mob rule, or “democracy”. They did not want the majority to be able to force their morality upon the minority at the point of a gun. And thus, we have the constitution and bill of rights. It’s just a shame that we have bastardized them both, while this country shifts from federalism to statism.

Secondly, I’ve got no idea where you might find that record. But regardless, you should invest in a rather inexpensive device called “Ripflash”. It takes any audio input and converts it to MP3, and it’s small, so you can, for example, hook it up to the output on your turntable, and back up all your albums.

Why must there be a dichotomy between legality, morality, and ethics?

Should legality lead or follow morality and ethics?
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As an aside, regarding the copying issue at hand, the music I would want to copy is out of date, out of print, and unavailable from anyone other than a devotee.

Where can I download a copy of Josh White’s “Baby, If You Talk In Your Sleep, Good God Don’t You Mention My Name”? The 78 rpm record I had, melted.

I’d thank you not to put words in my mouth by assuming I only want F9-11 ads banned. That’s not the case.

I want the law applied to every media outlet. Heck, I’d like to see it applied to straight news. Why should Time Warner get spout its views because it owns CNN? Why should GE get to spout its views because it owns NBC news?

They wanted to ban express advocacy, fine, then let’s do it. Only we do it for _everyone_. We don’t pick out certain groups and say, “Well, you get special rights because you’re ‘media’.”

note 1. Don’t look to find some high level inspirational stuff there – it’s just rap.
note 2. Yeah, I bought the CD, I didn’t download it from P2P
;-)

Don’t be afraid of Velvet Revolver. It’s pretty much straight forward KA rock-n-roll. You’ll like it if you like the bands you mentioned.

I had a feeling it wasn’t that hard to get around. For me, it’s mainly just the principle that I shouldn’t have to circumvent some bogus CD protection.

Also a factor in my not purchasing Velvet Revolver is that I’m generally nervous about purchasing music recommended on The Agitator, since it tends to be a little, well, scary.

This, of course, coming from a guy who still goes to Tesla concerts and thinks Great White is obscenely underrated…

Now that school’s out for summer, traffic is supposed to be noticably dimished. I haven’t yet noticed. The Thursday linkfest: Smash had a good time at a Berkeley peace rally. Kevin McGehee, who still doesn’t have any pictures of Mary …

It’s still frightening any time the government takes any interest in labeling people as mentally defective, but i dont think the massive screening program story is true.

Then again, i only skimmed through the exec summary, so maybe i missed something. . .

“This CD utilizes anti-copying software”

I suspect that it’s similar to the Beastie Boys CD protection. Either way, it was enough for me to pass on purchasing the CD.

Although I’ve long been very anti-file “sharing”, I do like burning copies of my better CDs in order to have a backup. Maybe someday I’ll buy Velvet Revolver used, but if I can’t make a backup I won’t pay full price.

If they’re going to ban ads for F-9/11 because it is political in nature and refers to political candidates, then I suppose they’re going to have to ban all ads for, say, every news show on TV, Hannity & Colms, O’Really?, Air America, Hardball, etc. No more ads for them either.

This is nothing more than a partisan attack. As much as I fucking DISPISE the CFRA, and as much as I would like to punch McCain, Feingold and Moore for supporting it, I also realize that this is not just a matter of “equal application of the law”, but actually just a partisan game, because the GOP doesn’t want people to see the movie. They’re taking the law quite literally here, and if they really wanted “equal application”, then, as I said, they would have to ban all ads for anything that mentioned politicians, including the news.

Right. The word ‘Freedom’ has lost all meaning lately. I don’t know why it is being packed into all these recent Orwellian schemes and political maneuvers.
It’s getting to a point where offers of ‘Freedom’ mean ‘break out the KY and get ready for some serious ass-fucking’ (as the song goes).
I know that some of you might disagree with that, but that’s a temporary condition.