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  • From: "Thomas A. Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Hole in the web
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 12:49:39 -0400


Damn straight, Snow, that Courtney Love speech kicks ass. I've never
been a tremendous admirer of the woman -- until now. Her critique of
the music industry monopoly is dead on and strangely articulate.
Everybody go read it now.

TaB

S S Tempest wrote:
>
> Speaking of Courtney Love, I've been reading this transcript of her recent
> speech about record labels, Napster, etc. It's really interesting if you've
> been following the Napster debate at all. She says Napster isn't piracy;
> it's just kids sharing music like they always do, and anyway the sound
> quality is crummy.
>
> What's piracy, she says, is the huge cut record labels take. She welcomes
> napster because it gets the word out, but she wants to dump her label and
> start distributing the records herself over the Web, like Aimee Mann just
> started doing. I thought it was a very convincing attempt to shift the
> terms of the debate.
>
> http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/index.html




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