Creeva’s World 2.0

I know that the Eng­lish intel­li­gentsia have plenty of rea­son for their timid­ity and dis­hon­esty, indeed I know by heart the argu­ments by which they jus­tify them­selves. But at least let us have no more non­sense about defend­ing lib­erty against Fas­cism. If lib­erty means any­thing at all it means the right to tell peo­ple what they do not want to hear.

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Yes that’s right. You can now have the entire Wikipedia ency­lo­pe­dia on your iPod. Clock­ing in at only 1.7 GB of space, it is a very handy tool if you have the sud­den uncon­trol­lable urge while out at the shops to dis­cover the cap­i­tal of Mon­go­lia or the mat­ing habits of eels

I real­ize lots of folks have been pre­dict­ing the immi­nent demise of the RIAA and the music indus­try since the incep­tion of Nap­ster and yet both are still here and still treat­ing legit­i­mate cus­tomers as crim­i­nals — or at least as poten­tial crim­i­nals. Sure indi­vid­u­als have tried to fight the RIAA’s ques­tion­able law­suits and…

“His­tory, they say, doesn’t repeat –but it does echo. Look­ing back at other sit­u­a­tions, other republics and empires, one is tempted to draw par­al­lels between then and now. The par­al­lel drawn most often is the decline of the British Empire .In the end Amer­ica will fol­low its own unique path. All Republics end, and so do all Empires.” 4 for pause.

“Ira Schwartz, the industry’s lawyer in the case, is argu­ing that MP3 files cre­ated on his [Jef­frey Howell’s] com­puter from legally pur­chased CDs are indeed “unau­tho­rized copies,” and while we’ve no idea what will become of all this, we sup­pose you should go on and wipe those per­sonal copies before you too end up in handcuffs.”

Bush is now claim­ing a “pocket veto” on the Defense Autho­riza­tion Bill even though Con­gress is still in ses­sion. The Con­sti­tu­tion explic­itly states that ‘pocket veto” only exists when Con­gress is not in session.

“Amer­i­cans today are see­ing the same sheep­ish sub­mis­sive­ness that char­ac­ter­ized Ger­many after the burn­ing of the Reich­stag.” Is democ­racy slowly dis­ap­pear­ing? Hitler and Franco did it in Ger­many and Spain. Is Bush doing it in the USA?

She made sure his food was as hot as he wanted, even if it meant he burned his mouth. And she smiled through his demands and curses. The 89-year-old Wal­ter “Buck” Swords obvi­ously appre­ci­ated it, leav­ing the wait­ress $50,000 and a 2000 Buick when he died.

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We’ve been wait­ing… and wait­ing… but STEAL THIS FILM II has finally been released, and it’s avail­able for free. The League of Noble Peers announce that film is intended to ‘bring new peo­ple into the leagues of those now pre­pared to think ‘after intel­lec­tual property.

The first film of Franken­stein was pro­duced by Thomas Edison’s stu­dio in 1910 and was the per­fect choice to kick off pro­duc­tion under the new moral ban­ner of cen­sor­ship. An inter­est­ing doc­u­ment in its own right, it is also an exam­ple of the ways cen­sor­ship does not merely sup­press art, but influ­ences the shape of the art that does appear.