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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My policy for the past three years is to buy CDs
directly from the musician. Big record company provide little value added but
take huge profits. I give them what they earn; nothing. Avarice!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=CHoaglin@aol.com href="mailto:CHoaglin@aol.com">CHoaglin@aol.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=music.maker@gte.net
href="mailto:music.maker@gte.net">music.maker@gte.net</A> ; <A
title=synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.nl
href="mailto:synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.nl">synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.nl</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:58
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [sdiy] WTO + WIPO = DMCA
(fwd)</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>In a message dated
2/13/02 6:59:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, <A
href="mailto:music.maker@gte.net">music.maker@gte.net</A> writes: <BR><BR><BR>
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TYPE="CITE">I'm certainly no lawyer, but AFAIK, internet petitions
<BR>aren't worth spit. The "signers" aren't signing, so <BR>there's no
way to verify them. There's no way to <BR>know that the same person
didn't "sign" multiple times <BR>with different "names".
</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>That's only one reason why they're not
useful...It's basically saying: <BR><BR>Petitioners: Please, big nasty record
company, do such and such because we say so.. <BR><BR>Big Nasty Record
Company: No #@%#% way..we want to make more money.. <BR><BR>The companies
don't care.... <BR><BR>-Chris</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>