If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

[Steve Swann]

So I started writing this earlier and accidentally bumped the send button, so ignore my previous partial message... 

Anyway, bottom line is that if the paperclip trick doesn't work, about all you can do is remove the drive and try shaking it.  Then you can re-test whether that's loosened the disc by just plugging in the power cable and hitting eject - no need to re-install the drive in the case (or connect the data cable) until it works.

It not *hard* to do this but if you're not good with PC hardware you might have trouble getting it back in when you're done.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: mary <maryann.sullivan1 at VERIZON.NET>
Date: Wednesday, Mar 25, 2009 1:32 pm
Subject: Re: If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!
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I enjoyed reading it.  What a long thread, wow!
STEAL EVERYTHING that does not measure 12 x 12
no, I am not serious
I enjoyed posting it though

On 3/25/09, M Holmes <fofp at holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Albert Bouchard writes:

> > So I guess you think it's OK to steal music? What about other stuff?
 > My 2 cents…

> In fact my views on this will surprise many, since I actually do
 advocate communism on this issue.

> I believe the tech will for the forseeable future be such that piracy of
 movies/music/books is going to be possible and indeed easy. So how do we
 organise things so that punters can easily download what they want when
 they want, and still arrange for the originators/promoters to be paid?

> The same problem came up with radio broadcasting and we came up with the
 whole Performing Rights arrangements.

> With computer networks, we can apply the same model in a better way:

> Charge, through network access providers, each and every denizen of the
 interweb, one Dollar per week for access.  For that they get access to
 everything.  Use the web itself to count accesses and then distribute the
 cash in some way proportional to what's popular and what it cost to
 produce and distribute it. Something along those lines would ensure that
 folks do get paid for creative endeavour while ensuring that the punters
 can get what they want as and when they want it.

> Of course, as with the BBC Licence Fee, the entertainment industries
 would thereafter constantly be in a political battle to try to get the
 user fee increased in order to have more pie to share out.  Those sorts
 of battles though have to be better than fights in Court to sue their
 own fans into bankruptcy.

> So there you have it: this libertarian wants some communism.

> FoFP

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