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...author of the new book The Green-Collar Economy, could represent the future of environmentalism in America and a way for the movement to survive and even thrive through the coming recession. "The solution for the environment and the economy will be the same thing," says Jones. (Listen to Jones talk about the green collar economy on this week's Greencast...
...current copyright law: As Lessig explains, today's copyright laws regulate reproductions or "copies." But in a digital context, every time you listen to a song or play a video, that content is "copied" from a server somewhere to the hard drive in your computer. The same is not true when you crack open a book: "For most of American history it was extraordinarily rare for ordinary citizens to trigger copyright law ... RO culture in the digital age is thus open to control in a way that was never possible in the analog age ... For the first time, [copyright...
...music store wouldn't be a total rip-off. "DRM was thus a speed bump: it slowed illegal use just enough to get the labels to buy in." But Lessig also notes the dangers of DRM. "At its most extreme, digital rights management technologies could control how often you listen to a song you've downloaded, where that song gets stored, whether you can share that song with someone else, and how long you have the right to listen. The technology could enable almost any form of control the copyright owner could imagine...
...themselves. Economical three-chord punk with infectious vocal melodies is growing old and boring. On their seminal 1998 album, “The Shape of Punk to Come,” Swedish hardcore punk band Refused asked of punk rock, “How can we expect anyone to listen, if we’re using the same old voice?” On “Appeal to Reason,” Rise Against is genuine. Whether they take the side of the downtrodden worker, the jilted lover, or the regretful soldier, their sincerity is never in question...
...games, ordinary hood shit/ Could this be cuz of hip-hop music / Or did the ones with the good sense not use it?” While “Paper Trail” is far from perfect—if you don’t believe me, just listen to “Porn Star”—it thrives on its own diversity. From the hodgepodge album cover to the varied track list, T.I. shows himself to be a much more capable crossover artist than he previously demonstrated. He works well with Rihanna and Justin Timberlake...