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Done with my first two days of classes, with the lower credit load I’ve actually met all my professors and been initiated into all my classes for the semester already. Looking forward to starting off the second year, I think I’m more engaged in the classes this year based on the coure topics despite theme being assigned.
More youtube distractions - live performance from Tenor Saw circa 1986, and a funky video from Tanja about shoes. According to youtube, a lot of the other videos I posted earlier have since been taken down due to copyright infringement. Again I find this kind of counterintuitive in that I would’ve never heard of any of these groups had they not been featured on youtube. I also was finally convinced to my first itunes purchases by a couple of Hifana tracks.
I suppose eventually the big record companies will again bring out their cadre of IP attorneys and take youtube to court. In maybe a couple years from now they might win a ruling or two, and it’ll be reported in the news. Meanwhile youtube will continue to allow copyrighted material to be posted, and another form of media sharing is bound to pop up. In the long run I don’t think it’ll help their record sales much, just prolong their transition to digital music as a format. One of these days they are going to have to wake up and see the marketing and promotional potential that digital media sharing technology has for their industry. There’ll be a lot of happy IP lawyers in the upcoming years, thats for sure.