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...beginning of this year, the Recording Industry Association of America announced that it was going to stop pursuing litigation against individuals who participate in illegal person-to-person music sharing and instead focus on its fight with internet service providers. Without the threat of lawsuits, music downloading essentially becomes legal based upon an absence of consequence. This raises the questions: what does music actually cost, and what are our obligations, if any, as consumers of music?When Radiohead released “In Rainbows” last year, the band allowed their fans to ascribe their own monetary value...
...India and China, everyone seems to be doing it. By far the most publicized attempt has been President Obama’s euphemistically named American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which flew through Congress a couple of weeks ago. But in measures like these hides perhaps the most pervasive economic threat to future global stability and prosperity: economic nationalism...
...overwhelmingly naïve can be seen as a natural defense mechanism, a way to mask our own insecurities by inflicting violence on something pure. In album opener “Saddle Up,” this world of puppies and playgrounds faces an external, rather than internal, threat: a rapidly approaching adulthood full of unknowns, or, as the narrator puts it, “a big scary world out there just waiting for me.” This, however, seems to be a much more manageable threat than personal insecurity. The narrator begs us to “saddle...
...Services Intelligence agency have supported the Taliban as a counterforce against India's influence in Afghanistan, just as they supported jihadi groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, which carried out the Mumbai massacre. "Our hope is that the Pakistani army is beginning to understand that the Taliban represent an existential threat to their country," said the Riedel team member. "Certainly, President Zardari understands that. The Taliban killed his wife, Benazir Bhutto, and he's now target No. 1. But does he have any influence over the army? And is the army really concerned about the threat? I'll believe it when...
...sign of the growing threat, militants have crossed the Indus River from the northwest in recent weeks to mount attacks in the Punjabi towns of Mianwali and Bhakkar. Lahore itself was long considered removed from the threat, not suffering its first suicide bombing until January 2008. Since then, it has seen a spate of major bombings, including attacks on the Naval College and the headquarters of the Federal Investigation Agency...