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Jake and Davis,
Yet another problem with changing Copyright laws:
The self-publishing technology of today makes publishing “The Great American Novel” or highly useful and detailed non-fiction within the reach of every person. Some Internet self-publishing businesses even offer additional assistance with editing, proofreading, and consultation. Public domain photos and artwork are even available to assist the self-publisher.
Services such as iTunes, Soundcloud, and others enable the local garage band to take their sound and spread it globally, and even make a little profit for their efforts with commerce portals.
Devices such as Singer programmable sewing machines, Cricut, Badge-A-Minit, and 3-D Printing technology enable the creative person to create Copyrightable designs to emboss, embroider, and shape onto almost any object that will take an imprint,
Commerce portals and Web stores from Amazon, Barnes & Noble,and Etsy enable creative people to sell their creations to the public all over the world.
If somebody starts screwing with Copyright laws, even though Academia and hard-copy and electronic media (sometimes called “Legacy Media”) have already got their benefit from Copyright law, that could jeopardize the budding and growing industry of self-publishing and the work of self-published creators.
For a Progressive professing concern for the marginalized and downtrodden, messing with Copyright law could turn out to be yet another well-intentioned way of hurting the people you claim to support. ‘Snot good.
Unseen,
You forgot to add that the 6 media companies tied in with the 3 investment firms “only know 3 chords” and “CBS and Warner Brothers RCA and All The Others” made sure that “Life Is A Rock” and “gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me.” 😁
Some perspective here: When I was born, there were only three major Broadcast TV networks CBS, NBC, and ABC, one or two independent stations, and a couple of Welfare TV stations (my word for Corporation for Public Broadcasting,) all accessible only by tin foil and rabbit ears and careful positioning.
And all of them signed on at 6 AM with a “test pattern” that included a Red Indian caricture so you could adjust the Red-Green balance (if you had color TV) and they played The National Anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Then at the end of the day, they signed off at Midnight or when Johnny Carson went off at 1 AM for NBC, again with “The Star-Spangled Banner.” TV was not 24/7/365 back in those days, many towns were unofficially “sunset towns” and “nothing good happened after Midnight.”
Radio was only on the AM frequency or on Shortwave if you had one of the fancier models and FM wasn’t a thing until later. The musical selection was only “Your Hit Parade” or “Billboard Top 20 or 40” and in tightly segregated genres of music, or even just regional music.
Some people had scanners for Police,,Fire, Emergency, and Aircraft frequencies, but those required installing crystals designed to pick up the specific frequency.
Some people communicated worldwide with Ham Radio and still do for emergencies, but it requires an FCC license and in the old days required use of Morse Code and no message could be commercial or racy or vulgar.
Some people communicated with Citizen’s Band Radio, wbicb required a license and forbade commercials or obscene language or illegal uses like solicitation for prostitution. (Parenthetically, not that there’s anything wrong with it, but back then, you could never say “Good Buddy” on the CB unless the person you’re addressing on the CB reciprocated, if at all–it had homosexual intimations–and you would NEVER give out your “Home 10-20!”)
And in between time, television was what FCC Commissioner Newton Minow called “a vast wasteland.” (Never mind that this “vast wasteland” was the result of the FCC having the final say over who could have the license to broadcast, all “in the public interest,” of course.)
Later on, there came pay cable TV, which all the Left-Wing moral panickers said would mean the end of free broadcast TV and which all the Right-Wing moral panickers said would lead to further “moral degradation,” which was bad enough pre-Hayes Code for movies and pre-Comics Code for comics. Despite these Crusaders, Cable TV spread and increased the number of channels to 20 or 30 and like USA Network’s Rhonda Shere, you could stay UP All Night!
Then came Satellite TV, which brought hundreds of channels, but which required special dishes, which originally took up a big chuck of the yard and required a credit check for subscription.
Now, with the Internet sending video wnd audio files of bits and bytes, and streamed wirelessly, there are literaĺy millions of stations with content of the entire ever-growing extent of human knowledge, every political, social or philosophical and religious and irreligious worldview, and in every genre of entertainment in every human language and even in fictìonal languages like Middle Earth and Klingon!
My Uncle who’s a scanner and Ham enthusiast has more streaming services than I do on his TV and showed me channels that are 24/7/365 of nothing but a geyser at Yellowstone, an octopus in an aquarium, or dash cam videos of car wrecks!
And you still say there’s no choice out there? Is that what your problem is, Bunkie?
Jake and Davis,
Look I am no stranger to hate speech. I’ve been called “Queer” and a “Faggot” since 5th Grade when I barely had an idea of what sexuality even was.
On another Forum, I just recently got called words to the effect of being a “Davos Man, George Soros-Loving, Great Reset, One-Worlder Faggot” by some Putin apologist just because I oppose Putin and his War in Ukraine.
My response? I point up Putin’s latest fuck-ups like letting a cruiser get sunk with nuclear weapons and I mockingly say: “Maybe Zelenskyy will offer to send SCUBA diving engineers to dislodge the weapons, you know, for keeps!” Or, I’ll say: “Putin could end this anytime he wants with a Macarov in his pocket pointed in his mouth, just like the other Wickedly Great One!”
Then I punctuate the post with “Fuck Off, Revanchist!”
And there’s another troll on this same Forum who’s not only a Putineer, but a Holocaust Denier and–no joke–he also thinks that lying should be outlawed. Wrap your head around that one. (Presumably, he thinks people who say that the Holocaust happened are liars who should be imprisoned. Be careful what you wish for, folks.)
I respond to him with all manner of sarcasm showing the ridiculousness of his positions. I’ll say: “So millions of people who don’t believe in tattoooing, who think it’s desecration of the body, took tattoos on themselves as part of some international fraternity prank?”
I also mocked his position on lying by spinning a yarn about Larry The Cable Guy and Jerry Seinfeld in a death camp:
“Well you see, Jerry, I got this Camouflage Square patch with a fish on it because I was at the Bait and Tackle Shop with my Blue Collar Comedy Buddies, and I told them: ‘I caught a fish THIS BIG!’ Then a bunch o’ Jackboots arrested us, put us on a damned ol’ train, and took us here! When Ron White called himslf ‘Tater Salad’ to the Kommandant, we never heard from him again!”
However I respond, I always punctuate my post with: “Fuck Off, Nazi!”
Lately, he says this is “a lame attempt at coercion.” I said: “I didn’t know snowflakes came shaped like Sunwheels, Celtic Crosses, and Swastikas!” and told him “Fuck Off, Nazi!” again!
As much as I’ve condemned The Catholic Church, The Southen Baptist Convention, The Latter Day Saints, and other child abusers, no one has dared to call me a “Groomer,” but I’ll be ready for them if it happens.
Don’t knock the “fuck you Wild West” until you’ve tried it, Jake. It’s fun, it’s an exercise in resilience, and it beats curling in a fetal position!
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