Comments on: Web Radio RIP unless you Act Today! http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2007/04/17/web-radio-rip-unless-you-act-today/ Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Erwin Blonk http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2007/04/17/web-radio-rip-unless-you-act-today/comment-page-1/#comment-3460 Erwin Blonk Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:23:44 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2007/04/17/web-radio-rip-unless-you-act-today/#comment-3460 What really bugs me is all that legislation in another country that has an impact on my daily life and nothing I can do about it. I´m taxed without a representative to turn to. Revolutions have been started over that, you know. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> All the RIAA has accomplished with me so far, is that I have become reluctant buying music. As I don´t do illegal downloading, the quantity of new music I buy is down to the releases of 3 artists I really like. Over the last three years I bought about 5 CD´s because of this. It´s the same with the MPAA. I started to collect Star Trek movies. I have three now but I can´t make myself buy more and hand over money, if only indirectly, to these !$#&%´s On the plus side, I always loved the books more than the moving stuff, so I bought some of those (really, the very best ST can be found in the books - just read ´A stitch in time´ and ´The 34rd rule´) What really bugs me is all that legislation in another country that has an impact on my daily life and nothing I can do about it. I´m taxed without a representative to turn to. Revolutions have been started over that, you know.

All the RIAA has accomplished with me so far, is that I have become reluctant buying music. As I don´t do illegal downloading, the quantity of new music I buy is down to the releases of 3 artists I really like. Over the last three years I bought about 5 CD´s because of this.
It´s the same with the MPAA. I started to collect Star Trek movies. I have three now but I can´t make myself buy more and hand over money, if only indirectly, to these !$#&%´s
On the plus side, I always loved the books more than the moving stuff, so I bought some of those (really, the very best ST can be found in the books – just read ´A stitch in time´ and ´The 34rd rule´)

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