perfidy

The body of swine and infantile shitmongers sometimes called the US Senate are considering a bill, introduced by Orrin Hatch, that would give the RIAA and MPAA-- get this--

Exemption from Anti-Trust Laws. Why? Because "market realities" are making it hard for them to stay in business!

O, how this poor heart bleeds.

In my world, when a business or business cartel sucks at what they do, they sink back into the common maelstrom that is the market and a new way of doing things takes hold. In the Bizarro World we live in (proof? Arnold friggin' Schwarzenegger is governer of Cahl-ee-for-ni-uh), cartels that suck at what they do get permission from the government to suck harder and cut the legs out from underneath anyone with the temerity to suck less.

A while back, Buckethead levelled a challenge to me to submit a white paper on the state of the recording industry and what is to be done about the current problems of economics, intellectual property, and art(lessness) that face it. Well, I think a good start would be to get rid of all the bastards in charge by any. Means. Necessary. After that, I don't really give a crap.

Buckethead, I know for a fact that land is very cheap in Newfoundland. Wanna go in on a compound? It's remote enough that Canada doesn't carry much weight up there, and we can cook chili, play music and distill corn liquor to our hearts' content.