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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10250711-93.html

Another scumbag insisting that the gatekeepers need to get paid...

But if the technology you develop prevents artists from being renumerated then there's something wrong with it. I'd like to get a moral tone into the discussion. I think there is a big moral question for civilization. It's not good enough to say that the Internet is free to all and there should be no restrictions on its use. I had the experience last year of making a speech to a group of (Members of European Parliament) in Brussels and they were very hostile to the idea of any kind of monitoring or regulation of the Internet, which they regarded as the precursor to a form of taxation. And of course, as politicians, they were against any kind of increased taxation. But it's not taxation. It's paying for something that people are consuming.

I started to glimpse the politics of it at that stage. I hope that our politicians, our journalists our media gain a sense of how much we stand to lose if free prevails. Ultimately free is the enemy of good.

Yeah. Imagine a world where all information, all knowledge, everything that can be digitized, is available to everyone, everywhere. A world where we can share everything of beauty that can be delivered digitally. A world where everybody can know everything they want to know. A world without ignorance and starved brains. What a nightmare?

The artists and authors will get paid. We will pay them voluntarily, because we love what they make. We don't need the State coercing payment. The distributors however will not get a penny. Tough luck for them. A digitally networked world makes distribution costless. We will distribute everything ourselves. We don't need Rupert Murdoch, that this scumbag praises, anymore.

You should read this page if you want a big laugh.

http://www.u2.com/terms/

I just think that you guys are mad because musicians are fittin' to get paid.

ZZtop is no small time group. I never saw them be that way. When they are just jamming, they will let anyone come up and be a part of it. Easy going and laid back. They always had home brew sound equipment. They also smoked some wierd stuff back then.