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Tim Cavanaugh's op/ed piece on the James Joyce estate's recent settlement with Stanford prof Carol Loeb Shloss makes really good points about intellectual property in the 21st century.
After only a few hours of toying around with iTunes and the Red Wine Audio iMod, I can see that what's really being modified here — as much as any resistor or inductor or whatever — is my relationship with music.
And I like it. A lot.
Is there a better Bob Wills clip than this? I've never seen it, if so. BTW, these were designed to be rear-projected, so everything is reversed —that's why Wills, Joe Holley, Bobby Koefer, and Cotton Whittington all seem to be playing leftie.
I suppose it was about five years ago. Erica was explaining that some dude had accidentally erased all of the music on her "iPod." This, apparently, was some sort of tragedy. I tried to sympathize. "I can't believe that jerk! Are you alright?" I consoled.
Meanwhile, I didn't even know what an iPod was.
Have I mentioned that I've never owned a portable music player of any sort? Unless, of course, you count the Magnavox boombox, which is semi-portable. I mean, it has a handle. If I wanted to, I could hoist that baby up on my shoulder and walk down Jersey Avenue in…