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   >  Anim8rFSK  wrote:   
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   > > > >  Thanatos  wrote:   
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   > > > > >  Anim8rFSK  wrote:   
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   > > > > > > The one I think is really really really ridiculous is that you have   
   > > > > > > to   
   > > > > > > have permission to show the HOLLYWOOD sign.   
   > > > > >   
   > > > > > Another of the multitudinous examples of how copyright law is broken   
   > > > > > and   
   > > > > > needs to be brought under some semblance of control.   
   > > > > >   
   > > > > > If you put a big honkin' sign on the side of a hill and turn it into   
   > > > > > a   
   > > > > > worldwide icon, you can't then (morally or rationally) turn around   
   > > > > > and   
   > > > > > bitch about people taking pictures of it.   
   > > > >   
   > > > > Yep. I'll bet dollars to donuts that this one is somehow rigged by   
   > > > > Valenti's evil organization.  I bet you could show a similar   
   > > > > CHIGAGOLAND   
   > > > > sign without repercussions.   
   > > > >   
   > > > > The thing is, you'd think they'd WANT you to showcase the HOLLYWOOD   
   > > > > sign.   
   > > >   
   > > > You'd think the RIAA would *want* radio stations to promote their   
   > > > artists on the radio, too. Yet they're calling music on the radio unfair   
   > > > piracy and demanding Congress pass a law requiring radio stations to pay   
   > > > the RIAA for the privilege of advertising the RIAA's product for them.   
   > >   
   > > Isn't it them that wants payment for the 30 second previews on iTunes?   
   >   
   > No, that's ASCAP. They also believe you should have to pay public   
   > performance fees for your ring tones when your phone rings anywhere but   
   > in your own home. And ASCAP's sister organization in the UK, PRS, has   
   > recently demanded that people stop singing and humming to themselves in   
   > public or risk being fined for unauthorized public performances. They've   
   > also done things like demand a public performance license from a woman   
   > who played music to the horses in her stables to keep them calm, and   
   > they call businesses at random and if they can hear music playing in the   
   > background when the phone is answered, they demand public performance   
   > fees. They've also commenced violation proceedings against police   
   > stations for officers who play radios or iPods while they work, calling   
   > them public performances as well-- because the suspects in the holding   
   > cells can hear the music.   
   >   
   > This is the sort of unrepentant greed that turns normal people off the   
   > whole concept and toward the idea that file-sharing isn't so bad after   
   > all if it means they can stick to money-grubbing authoritarians like the   
   > RIAA and ASCAP.   
      
   Yes.   
      
   Remember when one of them used to go from small store to small store   
   telling them they couldn't play the radio?  Although there were always   
   rumors that those people were actual evil agents of Muzak.   
      
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