So, here are some pics of my cousin Derek's Kindergarten Graduation...
I love this kid. I really wish I could see more of him. He's so bright, and sweet, funny, and just all around good. I remember this one time when I was living with my parents; we were watching him for the afternoon, and he wouldn't stop crying (I suppose he wanted his mommy), and I picked him up, hugged him, and started singing a song...the kid went right to sleep.
There's really nothing like the feeling you get when a baby falls asleep on you. Total trust, consious or not who cares, they trust you, and they're sleeping...
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So, I lead worship at our church sometimes. And I have a fairly extensive collection of music to choose from when I lead. However, when there is a particular song I want to use that I don't have, I usually go on out to one of many sites out on the innernut and find the song, print it out, and add it to my collection. This has worked well until today. I was searching for a particular song, and found this message on the in place of the most usefull resource I know of.
IMPORTANT SITE NEWS!!
Archives Shut Down
The music archives will be shut down for an indefinate period of time as P-W.net will be removing all songs under the Integrity Music label. Since we do not have a license with them, they have kindly asked us to remove all songs belonging to them. If you attempt to enter our archives, you will receive an error message.
This bit of news is unfortunate not only for the users of this site but also for the future of P-W.net. The site will still be up and operational but the future is very bleak now.
A little research and I found that the Integrity Music label is a member of the RIAA. As are MOST of the other labels that publish worship music. That sux.
Now, I understand that they want to maintain a level of control. I do. I have attempted my hand at recording my own music. Its a lot of work. HOWEVER, there are cases, I think, where exceptions should be made.
For example, there is a band I know of, who published an album to the web for free download. Cool! The label (to remain unnamed) shut the site down until the band agreed not to allow the downloads to continue. You be the judge.
Example 2: Celine Dion (bad music to begin with but apparently she has fans) released a CD on Sony Music Entertainment (a member of the RIAA). This CD, when mounted into Macintosh computers, would cause the computer to lock up, refuse to open the CD drive, refuse to shut down, refuse to play or do anything. THEN, you have to take the computer into an approved repair house, and they would remove the CD. Just a guess but I think Ms. Dion did not have nay say in this decision. All it did was upset here already dwindling fanbase, and it was her smallest selling album ever. Good job Sony. good job.
This was posted on linkfilter this morning:
You have to be utterly unconnected to everything not to have noticed that the recording industry, represented by RIAA, has decided to get medieval on its customer base. The latest moronic move by this organization to halt P2P file sharing is a deluge of subpoenas and lawsuits designed to 'really teach music downloaders a lesson.'
Think of this RIAA tactic as "random cyberterrorism with lawyers."
If these litigation junkies at the RIAA could wake up from their money induced dementia and smell the coffee.....But they can't wake up. They need to be shaken.
What I'd like to see happen, so that the RIAA and the recording industry deeply understands that suing people at random is VERY BAD FOR BUSINESS is a Web wide boycott on CDs as holiday gifts in 2003.
I agree fully. This is beginning to piss me off.