The Otterman Empire @ work: Maybe there's a link to intelligence for the musically inclined but I'm not sure their views on net neutrality demonstrate it.

Maybe there's a link to intelligence for the musically inclined but I'm not sure their views on net neutrality demonstrate it.

Aw this is interesting not a starving child, limbless refugee or ribbon in site.The "music community" has come out in favour of demanding equal treatment for all data.

Most of these artists have clearly never paid for a concert , or CD or a myriad of other items that have a limit in the physical world because with Sarah McClachlan's concert at the Glendale arena the price for being near enough to be worthwhile was considerably higher than standing at the back. Of course I'm sure that's totally unrelated since we -all- know that bandwidth is a limitless resource and that routers and datacenters procreate without human intervention or capital.

Musicians: Keep the Web neutral - CNN.com

Rep. Edward Markey, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, said if Internet providers are allowed to start charging fees for preferential treatment then it will stifle innovation across many industries, not just music. "This is nothing more than a new bottleneck fee, a corporate broadband tax that will discriminate against less powerful voices and those unable or unwilling to pay such discriminatory fees," he said during the teleconference.
Ah Edward Markey , he supports paying the carriers with our money as long as it gets to the right kind of people. Let me laugh along with his words

“Right now, it's hard to identify the services that would justify the current cost structure,” Markey said. “Seventy-five dollars a month is a big additional cost for a family that's making $40,000 to $50,000 a year.”

Yes the old trick of claiming that everyone that doesn't have a service, wants a service if only there was some way to have others pay for it. Maybe go to one less movie for a family of four a month? Drop the high tier cable tv? eat at home maybe once or two times less a month, drive less or maybe spend less money on writing letters to people like Markey asking them how they can possibly with a straight face bitch about high pricing when they are taxing the service locally, statewide , federally and then adding on more broadband access fees is beyond me. Anyway I digress and want to get back to our starving artist.

The usual artist cries of "no no I'd only be successful if people got to hear me above this other crap, "

"It could be a pretty sad world where money alone buys the ears and anybody that can't afford it, can't get proper placement, is pushed off to the ghettos," said Derek Sivers, owner of CD Baby,

And it's the kind of world that's letting his company grow, weird that. I forgot that people are forced daily into stores to buy music they hate, to keep radios on they despise and in general it's not that far away from the "we know what you'll like"

Ah the tens of thousands of other artists nodding in agreement forget that they are in a very real way each other's crap? Ears and hours are finite there is no neutrality about it we discriminate , get used to it.