Posted by filegrabber on 09/20/05 04:06

The whole idea that the MPAA and related goons just want to inject fear
in to people that are suppose to be their customers makes me so angry!
I myself am totally blind, and the internet has opened many doors for me,
and that's not just because I have an interest in the internet and
related technologies either.
Back in June 2000, I was introduced to the original Napster.
I instantly realized what an awesome promotional tool the internet could
become, not to mention the ultimate distribution tool as well.
I found music and other forms of audio I hadn't heard in years, and to
this day still have many of those original files first downloaded from
the good original Napster.
Now with the good version of Napster gone, and the RIAA/MPAA not willing
to give consumers what they first got with Napster,
we as blind consumers face an even bigger challenge.
The record label approved services such as the new Napster and Itunes
among others, for the most part can not be used by blind users as the
programs used to access such services are horribly inaccessible!
Not only that, but just as with regular consumers, we can not back up our
purchased content. So in my case I have winMX, direct connect, and
gnutella as my p2p apps, and I have Napster as my sole record label
approved service.
Now I find it quite interesting I can use with no problem all 3 peer to
peer apps I have, yet I'm barely able to use the Napster program enough
to even try and purchase a track.
I would rather be able to have content on my system that I can freely
transfer to another computer and/or device if I so choose, and I'd prefer
to obtain the content via a program that is accessible to me as a blind
user.
As such, most if not all of the services I can not use.
The fact that the MPAA has tried to go after the poster of this thread
for sharing something that itself isn't even theirs just based on it's
name is totally rediculous! These greedy money hungry corporations
need to make the best of new technologies, let consumers make personal
copies of content, and so long as no money is changing hands, leave us
alone!
They're so quick to claim we're stealing their content, but last I
checked they still had the content, and oh let's see here I have an album
here by the artist Maire Brennan, which I purchased after I heard a few
tracks off it via gasp gasp, p2p file sharing networks!
Consumers, especially blind consumers do not want DRM content that can
not be backed up to other computers/devices. So we can at present get
content which happens to be for free that we can do what we choose with
it, or pay and get a DRM restricted file that we can't even back up
should we have a system failure and have to reload our computer!
Not to mention the program used to access the payed files we can hardly
use! the internet has opened many doors for us as blind consumers, so
until the greedy labels give us what the old Napster provided at good
fast speeds, including the blind user friendly program, I say we need to
somehow do what we can to show these greedy corporations how we feel! So
if possible I'd take on the labels you bet!
In their mind, if it's not severely DRM'd, it must've been pirated. well
hey if that's what I gotta do to ensure I can back it up, then so be it!
I'm tired of the MPAA/rIAA telling us how we can use technology or in
what way we can use it!
And if the content in question here was not a movie and they went after
this thread's poster based on the name, then that I believe is also
wrong! Maybe I should start naming all my files to the latest and
greatest hits and let the bastards come after me. It's getting really old
really quick, and I'm sick of it all!

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