August 24, 2000

6:49 PM

John at Genehack sez: "The music industry is a drug dealer. Napster is drug legalization." I think he might be right.
posted by baylink (5 comments total)

That's really funny. I wrote something very much along those lines last night on my site - that the DCMA is trying to treat copyrights like drugs, and trafficking and harbouring known traffickers etc. as capital crimes.

Lesson: Memetics is scary.
posted by mikel at 9:14 PM on August 24, 2000

My favorite Napster commentary of the week is Library System Terrorizes Publishing Industry.

Ruben Bolling and Tom Tomorrow are Salon's best features.




posted by straight at 6:01 AM on August 25, 2000

Drug dealers push coke and heroin...

Music companies push Britney and NSync and Mariah...

Hey wait!! It's not nice to put down drug dealers like that!!

posted by chiXy at 6:47 AM on August 25, 2000

Anyone know where I can get a fix of Mariah?
posted by baylink at 7:30 AM on August 25, 2000

I was actually thinking Mariah should be fixed.
posted by chicobangs at 9:31 AM on August 25, 2000