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hello, i realize it's been a month, but transition times for me are always busy.

i just have a couple things to mention. i'm moving this week(possibly today/tomorrow) down to lakeview. if you want the address let me know. this means that my server will probably be down a bit in the next week(s) as we try and get internet. it's going to be nice being a 10 minute bike ride to north beach. i'm pretty super excited.

a little realization. i heard something that john mccain said last night, on whatever talk show he was on, that youtube is the worst thing for a politician. this popped something in my head that made me think, 'this is true for everything'. as our communication is enhanced our need for a commercialized news lessens. i've been so worried about how corrupt our media is and hurt my brain thinking of ways to get everyone to see a nearly unbiased view that hasn't been corrupted by greed. this answer can only be an unrestricted internet where it is easy for us to post anything and get it out to everyone. this gives people choice for their news, instead of just what the media gives us. next what needs to happen is someone, with the ability and the general morals to help others, to create the news source that we're waiting for. and not just some'one' but anyone that can do it, to do it. with things like youtube and blogs like this anyone can tell what they see, and maybe sometime in the future we'll be able to see the world through a nearly unbiased view :)

another thing that's been racking my brain is art-sharing related. i'm going to start calling it art-sharting instead of file-sharing because i am talking about music/movies/pictures and not general files, but file-sharing could still be included in this argument. i've been trying to figure out how you could ever stop art-sharing. you can't. ever since the advent of the tape recorder people have been able to copy the things they hear. if you can hear or see something you can record it and copy it. so why are companies like the RIAA and the MPAA trying so hard to prevent people from doing something that there will be no way of stopping? because they are greedy. the majority of people who are 'pirates' are people that wouldn't give their money to buy cds or dvds anyways. and there's as much proof saying that these companies are making money from pirating(people buy what they like and can't like something if they don't hear/see it first) as there is that shows they are losing money from it. saying that these companies are losing billions of dollars from pirating is absurd.

what should be done, is these companies need to realize they are not going to stop this. even if they could shut down the internet(which they would if they could) i'm still going to take my cds and copy them in my computer and give them to my friends. that's just the way it is. what they need to do is try and control the way that these are distributed. if they gave a better portal for people to get their music and gave it away for dirt cheap(like $.05 a song) they could still make a ton of money and not really worry about pirating. it just sickens me that they're taking money from people by invading their privacy and saying that they are in violation by 'making copyrighted material available'. that's fucked up.

p.s. i'm listening to the new rilo kiley cd right now. it's almost done and has been one of the best cds i've heard in years. if you want it let me know and i'll let ya download a copy from me ;-)