Fwd: <nameless> Napster goes for a "Pablo Cruise"

[Frederic Madre]

>To: Nameless <nameless@freedonia.com>
>From: "Seth L. Sanders" <sanders@mscc.huji.ac.il>
>
>At 12:17 AM 4/27/00 -0500, Sam Leimer wrote:
>
> >maybe somehow you might encode the band/label/etc. information within the
> >audio info, so it couldn't be edited out, such that everytime an MP3 got
> >downloaded, it would some how get tracked (using applettes mmmm) to MP3
> >central such that a signal got sent to copyright HQ (quit wincing Gareth)
> >and the band could somehow get paid a royalty.  that way:
>
>This is actually a pretty nice-sounding proposal, some kind of tracking
>system like what they already do with surfing itself. The information is
>mostly already available: when I slipped one of the many Pablo Cruise CD's
>I borrowed from Sam into the DVD drive just now, a thing called CDDB went
>on (it just said that CDDB has successfully recognized that "You must be
>gay," but those fucking closeted faux-heterosexist Grindcore taste police
>have their lavender tentacles everywhere these days).
>
>
> >touche.  A marxist, a marxist viewpt. and a mark are soon parted.
>
>What the FUCK is it with this anti-Marx hysteria? It's like, oh, things are
>losing their quality as commodities, there are all these weird interactions
>between money, ideas, value and technology, but WE BETTER NOT TRY PUTTING
>IT TOGETHER, so let's throw a hissy fit every time someone invokes anything
>more than the most pedestrian and PC concepts available to the average
>braindead US clamhead.
>
> >ps. I wowed them again by removing my underpants.
>
>What, because instead of a dick you have a replica of Ernest Borgnine's
>head surgically grafted between your legs? What a lame, played-out party
>trick.
>
>"When he becomes the creator, will he let us exist?"
>-X-Ray Spex
>
>"Who Made Who?"
>-AC/DC
>
>"Extreme Noise Terror Are Afraid of Us"
>-Pablo Cruise
>
>
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