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...pour money into the political system outweighs the right of American voters to have their voices heard. While voters ultimately decide elections, advertising and mobilizing dollars have a profound power at turning voters and getting them to the polls. Consequently, money talks, and politicians will often turn around to listen...
...users in a mesh of restrictions that limit what they can do with the music they download. That $9.95 plan at Pressplay buys you unlimited downloads, but you can't move the songs to your portable MP3 player or burn copies of them onto a CD, and you can listen to them only so long as you're a Pressplay subscriber. Miss a payment, and the files lock up. For $8 more a month, Pressplay gives you 10 "portable" downloads that are free of those constraints. But compare that with the roughly infinite number of unrestricted, unconstrained, infinitely copyable downloads...
...this point, hypothetical horror stories are almost beside the point. The people have spoken, and they say they want a revolution. File sharing isn't going to save us from corporate entertainment the way the Beatles saved Pepperland from the Blue Meanies, but if it allows more people to listen to more music in more ways than they ever have before, can it be all bad? And does good or bad even matter? Technology has a way of sweeping aside questions of what is right or wrong and replacing them with the reality of what is possible. Recorded entertainment...
...have been] trying to listen to a lot of people,” he said. “Even groups of people not representative of the whole opinion...
...first thing we have got to do is listen to those who are hurt,” Reno said, after discussing her contributions to the child support enforcement system in Miami. “To them, the law seems alien and it seems little more than the paper it is written...