As far as Old School goes, I'm pretty damn old school. I remember all the sites that have been discussed here and remember them fondly. Hell, I even remember when Angelo A.K.A. spyed was actually A.K.A. jello (and he had a monster for a girlfriend). I also helped out at a few of the sites. At DM I hosted the "Otherboard" to catch some of the junk and hundred-post interactive stories about the folks of DM and ASmith gang-banging eachother that filled up the "regular board". And later, when DM tried to go corporate, and the bullshit on the Otherboard didn't fit their image (i.e. it wouldn't impress the venture capitalists) I watched the link to the Otherboard get removed and the board died forever (granted it was pretty dead already... :) That's the way I saw it anyways, and I understood completely, I would have done the same thing.
Anyways, the thing I think people should realize is that our "revolution", although it has allowed us to get any kind of music with just a few mouse clicks (for FREE!!), we're actually worse off than before! Why? Because it allowed the record companies and other "big business" to use their lobbying power (i.e. $$$) to buy laws and bury the world under bullshit legislation.
It seems most people think that since they're still able to download any song they want in less than five minutes that we've won, and all those laws were just desperate attempts do shut us down, and didn't work. I suppose that's one way of looking at it. The other is that Linux kernel developers (who have nothing to do with digital music) are now afraid to reveal what bugs they've fixed because they might go to prison for violating the DMCA (and yes, I'm serious) and people in foreign countries are being arrested and sent to the big house for violating laws that don't even exist in their country.
What I fear is that this errosion of civil liberties is something people won't understand and resist until their kids write a HEX editor as part of their Computer Engineering degree (or *gasp*, for fun!) and end up in prison because it can be used to circumvent some lame ass copy protection scheme.
I'm not passing judgement on anyone. I'm just as bad as anyone else because I work for one of those "big business" companies. Hell, I'm practically an all out yuppy these days. ;)
Bah, oh well. We'll always have our memories... :)
-AgentX" id="1325">I came here on a whim today to see what was doing Dimension Music, and I saw this "Good old day's" thread and figured it was my duty as an old schooler to post.
As far as Old School goes, I'm pretty damn old school. I remember all the sites that have been discussed here and remember them fondly. Hell, I even remember when Angelo A.K.A. spyed was actually A.K.A. jello (and he had a monster for a girlfriend). I also helped out at a few of the sites. At DM I hosted the "Otherboard" to catch some of the junk and hundred-post interactive stories about the folks of DM and ASmith gang-banging eachother that filled up the "regular board". And later, when DM tried to go corporate, and the bullshit on the Otherboard didn't fit their image (i.e. it wouldn't impress the venture capitalists) I watched the link to the Otherboard get removed and the board died forever (granted it was pretty dead already... That's the way I saw it anyways, and I understood completely, I would have done the same thing.
Anyways, the thing I think people should realize is that our "revolution", although it has allowed us to get any kind of music with just a few m ouse clicks (for FREE!!), we're actually worse off than before! Why? Because it allowed the record companies and other "big business" to use their lobbying power (i.e. $$$) to buy laws and bury the world under bullshit legislation.
It seems most people think that since they're still able to download any song they want in less than five minutes that we've won, and all those laws were just desperate attempts do shut us down, and didn't work. I suppose that's one way of looking at it. The other is that Linux kernel developers (who have nothing to do with digital music) are now afraid to reveal what bugs they've fixed because they might go to prison for violating the DMCA (and yes, I'm serious) and people in foreign countries are being arrested and sent to the big house for violating laws that don't even exist in their country.
What I fear is that this errosion of civil liberties is something people won't understand and resist until their kids write a HEX editor as part of their Computer Engineering degree (or *gasp*, for fun!) and end up in prison because it can be used to circumvent some lame ass copy protection scheme.
I'm not passing judgement on anyone. I'm just as bad as anyone else because I work for one of those "big business" companies. Hell, I'm practically an all out yuppy these days.
Bah, oh well. We'll always have our memories...
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