I just read the transcript of the GWB interview on 60 minutes, and honestly a lot of people are ragging him out about what he had to say, and I do take exception to several points he brings up, but all in all, it is probably the most intelligence I’ve ever heard him utilize during an interview or speech. I may not agree with him on several points, but at least this time he doesn’t sound like a dumb ass red neck with no cares or thoughts about our soldiers dying over there. Check it out, it’s an interesting read.
General Stuff, Politics, Shadus Ramblings
The RIAA is off its rocker.
Check this little gem out.
The summary if you’re to lazy to click the link is that the RIAA (music industry) is suing a music download site in Russia who sells music for a few cents each song. About $4 per CD give or take. They’re suing them for… 1.65 TRILLION dollars. Last I checked the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) for the ENTIRE country was about 750 BILLION dollars. Now this is where it even gets better… this only includes the songs from June to October 2006. They’re charging $150,000 per song. If they had applied those numbers since the inception of AllofMp3.com which according to a quick whois lookup of the site name, is June of 2000… and we’ll say they sold 8m overall each month average, because at the beginning it would have sold slower and now it’s much faster… is roughly 78 months times 8 million downloads or 624 million total downloads… at a cost of $150,000 per song they’d owe the RIAA 93,600,000,000,000 dollars… yes 93 TRILLION, 600 BILLION… because they sold songs cheaper than apple… who sells each song for $0.99. Just for comparison… the national debt of the united states is currently capped at 9 Trillion. The gross domestic product of the ENTIRE WORLD combined is about 45 Trillion…
God, someone who does damages and math for this kinda shit needs flat out shot. This is STUPID, punitive is one thing and understandable as a discouragement… this is mental. Any judge who gets this case should toss it out for being to stupid to contemplate until they can come back with a reasonable number of some sort.
Anyways, enjoy figured everyone needed some light hearted stupidity for the holiday season! Oh and AllofMp3.com is presently is giving a 20% holiday increase for any money you transfer in for downloads. Merry Christmas!
Music, Politics, Shadus Ramblings, Technology, The Funny
… Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. – Thomas Jefferson
Politics, Shadus Ramblings