Closing on wednesday

[GSRCRXsi]

want to download music?

rent a server in china to do the downloading
sftp it to your desktop.

 

[Briansol]

Half the bands i listen to these days offer their music up free in 320kbs on their websites.
Bands never really made money on record sales anyway. If you want to support a band, buy merch and show tickets.
Otherwise, spend a few bucks on amazon.

Record labels often put up free samplers too.

http://basickrecords.bandcamp.com/d...g=01f4de1791db2c17381ec24408dd9a7d&type=album

 

[corvetteguy78]

Email i got

Hieveryone!

Abig hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now -- SOPA and PIPA were dropped byCongress today -- the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have beencancelled.

Thelargest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game. Youwere heard.

OnJanuary 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect freespeech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, peopleall around the world saw what we did on Wednesday. See the amazing numbers here and tell everyone what you did.

Thiswas unprecedented. Your activism may have changed the way people fight forthe public interest and basic rights forever.


TheMPAA (the lobby for big movie studios which created these terrible bills) wasshocked and seemingly humbled. “‘This was a whole new different game allof a sudden,’ MPAA Chairman and former Senator Chris Dodd told the New York Times. ‘[PIPA and SOPA were]considered by many to be a slam dunk.’â€

“'Thisis altogether a new effect,' Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement tothe Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing 'an effort that was moving withthis degree of support change this dramatically' in the last four decades, headded."

Tweet with us, shout on the internet with us, let's celebrate:Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up - #PIPA and #SOPAare tabled 4 now. #13millionapplause

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We're indebted to everyone who helped in thebeginning of this movement -- you, and all the sites that went out on a limb toprotest in November -- Boing Boing and Mozilla Foundation (and thank youTumblr, 4chan)! And the grassroots groups -- Public Knowledge, ElectronicFrontier Foundation, Demand Progress, CDT, and many more.

#SOPA and #PIPA will likely return in some form. But whenthey do, we'll be ready. Can you make a donation to Fight for the Future,to help us keep this fire going?

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We changed the game this fall, and we're notgonna stop. $8, $20, every little bit helps.

13million strong,

Tiffiniy,Holmes, Joshua, Phil, CJ, Donny, Douglas, Nicholas, Dean, David S. and Moore...Fight for the Future!


P.S. China's internet censorship system reminds us why the fight for democraticprinciples is so important:

Inthe New Yorker: "Fittingly, perhaps, thediscussion has unfolded on Weibo, the Twitter-like micro-blogging site that hasa team of censors on staff to trim posts with sensitive political content. Thatis the arrangement that opponents of the bill have suggested would be requiredof American sites if they are compelled to police their users’ content for copyrightviolations. On Weibo, joking about SOPA’s similarities to Chinese censorshipwas sensitive enough that some posts on the subject were almost certainlydeleted (though it can be hard to know).
...
AfterChinese Web users got over the strangeness of hearing Americans debate themerits of screening the Web for objectionable content, they marvelled at theAmerican response. Commentator Liu Qingyan wrote:

‘Weshould learn something from the way these American Internet companies protestedagainst SOPA and PIPA. A free and democratic society depends on every one of uscaring about politics and fighting for our rights. We will not achieve it byavoiding talk about politics.’"

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(press release is here: https://fightfortheftr.wordpress.com/press-releases/)
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[phunky.buddha]

want to download music?

rent a server in china to do the downloading
sftp it to your desktop.

Wha?

 

[AHHVTEC]

i got around it lol