now they are retroactively revoking millions of works from public domain???
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/2804
they are just systematically gutting the us constitution and eroding out freedoms and privacy.
YES, we are under assault, and the thing about it that spells criminal is that it's by OUR OWN GOVERNMENT! Pirates All!
I am especially grateful to kc8gpd for linking this copyright story at this particular time because I just heard about the situation on the Media Monarchy Next Week News broadcast, and already wanted to start searching the web for more information.
It is an absolute breaking of the legs of freedom and creative liberties which exist for small broadcasters who benefit from the public domain.
My station has programming by permission of the producers, which so far is still legal, but, like many of you, we also carry programs from the public domain.
RADIO BOOKS is our program of beautifully delivered audio books of literary classics from librivox.org.
HAS BEEN HOTEL brings the great hotel orchestras from 100 years ago as released on 78 RPM records and made available on archive.org. Our version of the show is hosted by me as the hotel's concierge from The Public Domain Room.
OLD TIME RADIO SHOWS which transcription recordings were placed into dumpsters by the radio networks were saved by collectors and provide popular programming for a new generation of listeners.
SYMPHONY MUSIC consists of classical recordings released on 78 RPM albums and placed into the public domain because there is no after-market interest in mono old time recordings, but by using this music the original owners see a new opportunity to grab for the money.
DO NOT attend movies, subscribe to netflix or cable television, or purchase CDs or DVDs. These are the people that are colluding and conspiring with prostitute politicians to enslave us and make us pay double and triple for everything, or spend most of our lives in prison for piddly "violations."
These words will get me put in a secret prison in Bulgaria, but even there I will print a newspaper on toilet paper to get the word out.
Surprised by all this? Why? Why should anyone be surprised or shocked about what is happening. I mean the crazy conspiracy theorists have been shoving "they are going to censor the web" now for the last 15 years.
DEJA-VU.....like frigging 1960 all over again.
(famous speech by outgoing president no one paid any attention to either)
Isn't this what the people want?! Isn't this what will bring everyone safety and security that everyone wants?
Feeling safer now?
Yes..They Can...And Will...With Or Without Your Approval.
Oh...as to the thread title....they will NEVER quit simply because neither will the public quit being lazy passive space occupiers doing nothing at all to prevent all this from happening, or did anything before to prevent it from happening.
Everyone has one...I suggest using it when asking one self what went wrong. (MIRROR)
RFB
"they are just systematically gutting the us constitution and eroding out freedoms and privacy."
Impossible. Never happen. The US is immune to any and all reality and possibilities.
The US is inside a protective bubble which is impenetrable.
Nothing goes wrong, nothing can go wrong, nor can anyone within be the cause of anything that can't go wrong.
It can't happen in America.
RFB
At kdxradio.com there is no blog. The only message we send happens on our media news page, and here is the message for right now:
January 21, 2012 - PIRATES BOARDING SHIP - As some of you may have detected the freedoms and creative pursuits of civilian persons are being abrubtly brought under tow by invading forces, largely aided by our own government. It seems the Pentagon has turned upon the population it was instituted to protect, and taken that population into custody. The conspiratorial nature of the pillage is fulfilled by the corporate entertainment industry who wish to financially enslave the population by means of tolling fees for every square inch of productivity. The latest target is the classical public domain, the rich inherritance of every individual stemming from antiqual works of art, including literature, music, art, recordings and motion pictures. Despite our peril under such onslaught we do have advocates by way of persons dedicated to preserving liberties, and KDX Worldround Radio serves to report the ongoing saga of pirate government/corporate power vs. the individual. Stay tuned.