[BC] Arrested for just telling people where to find Copywrited material.

[Milspec390 at aol.com]

Judging by comment sections in UK and other 'foreign' papers, record industry 
impresses many as gutless bullying dullards,  just bright enough to choose 
safe targets such as single mothers lacking in resources to fight malicious 
lawsuits.
 
Yeah, file sharing, etc. robs the poor, victimized, sackcloth and ashes 
record companies.
 
 
Look, for years, our small company sold Army/Collins Engineering Study on 
R-389 -390, and 390A receivers. We obtained a copy when declassified in '85 - 
doubtless due to codicils to Ohm's Law being judged highly sensitive during Cold 
War - made copies, and sold them. I still have copies in the radio room and 
below workroom. You want? I send. Gratis.
 
Along came internet. During late 90s, a customer of ours who purchased Study 
scanned it into the net, and made it available gratis to anyone desiring it.
 
 
Feel my pain. Oh boo hoo. No gotta da revenue. Yeah, right. Whomever scanned 
it kindly mentioned he purchased it from us. He gave our company name, mine as 
well, and contact info. I was delighted.
 
 
Prince is a smart business man, as is Radiohead. Generate goodwill with CD 
giveaways, and look forward to packed concert arenas. 
 
 Refreshingly, even young commentarians decry alleged music from '90s 
forward. Women bark like truck drivers, men wheeze like cracked-out floozies, and now 
comes this ludicrous revival of brewglass 70s hillbilly schtick.  Horrid.
 
  As scion and descendant of a long line of professed cattle rustling, horse 
thieving hillbillies of upstate NY Dutch ancestry, I find that resurgence 
amusing, albeit no less unlistenable.
 
 What does this portend? Not a bloody thing.
 
                                                              z
 
 
paul vincent zecchino
manasodium key, fl



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