Posts by Paul Litterick
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Educated Tiso.
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NatRad was still going on about the Adagio fiasco on Midday Report. There were gasps, apparently, from members of the audience, when the offending words were spoken and the offending orgasm faked.
In other news, pantomime audiences were heard to say "ooh" in response to innuendo spoken by men dressed as women and women dressed as boys.
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Sorry I missed your party.
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Mofonui
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Waiter! There are dark purple spheres in my soup!
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The correct term is "appropriate." Appropriation absolves all sins.
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And given that most people just want the single they heard on the radio, Simon's point about what the consumer is doing right now with iTunes is, I think, a very pertinent one.
It is equally pertinent to the issue of illegal downloading and copying. People want songs; some pay, some don't.
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I am all for lovingly-kept MP3 blogs ( such as The Perfumed Garden )and I would like to see some means of making them legit. But it is the seeding idiots that is the problem. I have met people who do not own (in the sense of having bought) any music: they have iPods full of stuff downloaded illegally and stuff they have copied from their friends' iPods. They have extensive collections of movies they have obtained at no cost. They don't read books.
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Death plus 50 makes me quite angry. If I publish something now and live into my 80s or 90s, it's going to be 2110-2120 before it falls out of copyright. That is just ridiculous.
But if you were in your eighties and the bestsellers you wrote 40 years ago went out of copyright, so that copies were being sold everywhere and films being made, of which you got not a cent, you might think otherwise.
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John, Ringo: I want copyright reduced to life plus thirty, but that is not going to happen. However, I think enforcement has to include sites which facilitate illegal downloads. Public-use should be a defence, but should not allow carte-blanche downloading.