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this is not the hamster you're looking for ([info]flightstothesea) wrote,
@ 2008-07-05 15:07:00


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Current mood: working

lol moast overinvested in musicians
Popping in from The Land Without Internets* to tell you very important things about media conglomerates:

- EMI has dropped Graham. This is better for him in the long run (see: Radiohead and lots of other artists who are bypassing labels so as to not get ripped off by them), but this means that his new album isn't going to be released any time soon. :( I hope eventually he re-releases his back catalogue under his own power, because--

- Fuck EMI. They get no money from me ever again.

- The US postal service are a bunch of useless assholes. This isn't really news, but FFS, when someone sends a package certified mail (meaning it requires a signature), you'd think it would actually get to me.

- I will have DSL in a few days (provided the software they're sending me actually works with Windows 98 >.>). I was very amused at AT&T's attempts to squeeze an extra $5 out of me by a) not telling me about their Basic plan and b) half-assedly trying to convince me that I need the next one up. NAH!

- Beware of YouTube. I don't know if they're actually going to hand over all those usernames and IP addresses, but it seems the media conglomerates are going to get their money from you, even if they have to shake you down in the street to do it.

:D

* Also known as The Land With Ten Cable Channels Because My TV Is Fucked-up.



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[info]theninth
2008-07-07 12:46 pm UTC (link)
I heard about the Youtube thing and I think I'm kinda pissed off about that. I'm not angry with Google/Youtube, but with Viacomm, who seems to think they control everything and have the right to demand that information. It makes me want to pirate things just for the sake of it.

Fortunately, most of my Youtube viewing is of Top Gear, old music videos (mostly Canadian music, thanks to Kitti revisiting his childhood), and cartoons from the 1930s. I don't think there'll be much money gotten from me.

And hey. I miss you.

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[info]flightstothesea
2008-07-07 06:46 pm UTC (link)
I'm not surprised, really. Companies like that are hemorrhaging money because they've been using bad business models for years and years, and now they're trying to recoup it by suing everyone they can instead of evolving. Meh! Between these assholes and EMI, it makes me want to never actually watch TV or buy music again.

But your aim is improving? :D

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