Grateful Dead Truck'n Over MPAA

By way of the EFF (who are currently suing Barney) this morning, I learned that John Perry Barlow, lyricist of the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the EFF, went on a British talk show with MPAA President Dan Glickman, and Kept it Real.

The good news is that you guys have managed to buy every major legislative body in the planet, but you know the problem is, the bad news is that you're up against a dedicated foe that is younger and smarter than you are and will be alive when you are dead, and has historical forces on its side, and is using its technological acumen very adeptly to ward off all of your efforts of control and you're gonna lose that one. I mean you're fifty-five years old and these kids are seventeen and they're just smarter than you are. So you're gonna lose that one. But the good news is you guys are mean sons of bitches and you've been figuring out ways to rip off audiences and artists for centuries really, and all you gotta do is get outta bed a little earlier in the morning for a spell and you'll find new ways of doing this. I have every faith in you and you should give yourselves a little credit, instead of howling that you're going to be victimized. It's not like you to be victimized.

Posted By Mike On Friday, August 25, 2006
Filed under politics mpaa | Comments (3)

Gabriel. - Monday, August 28, 2006 3:13:04 PM

Dude's lost a few too many braincells.

Wayne - Friday, October 19, 2007 1:07:25 AM

Hahahaha! That's awesome!

I don't follow the DRM stuff to closely, since we still can do whatever, regardless of what they have in place to stop it. The genie is out of the bottle for sure.

Think I'll go pay for my music on actual band sites, where a third party displays a logo authenticating to me that the band get's at least the lion share of the money I'm spending. I don't like advertising anyway. Why would I buy something that I know will line the pockets of those promoting the product, rather than those that actually produced and created it? Let them make the payments to everyone else that contributed, rather than the artist being paid by them. Reverse it in a sense.

Ah, now I'm rambling....long day. Sorry. :)

Wayne - Friday, October 19, 2007 1:08:46 AM

Just looked at the date...wow! I'm way behind....nose up from the keyboard mang...

Gabe, he's on the money man! What you talking 'bout? ;P

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Michael C. Neel, born 1976 in Houston, TX and now live in Knoxvile, TN. Software developer, currently .Net focused. Board member of ETNUG and organizes CodeStock, East Tennessee's annual developers conference. .Net speaker, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider. Co-Founder of FuncWorks, LLC and GameMarx.

Proud father of two amazing girls, Rachel and Hannah, and loving husband to Cicelie who inflates and pops his ego as necessary.

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