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STOP ACTA & TPP

Stop ACTA & TPP! - Never use trade agreements to mess with the Internet!

They tried to push internet censorship through Congress and we stopped them with our STOP SOPA/PIPA protests. But the companies behind SOPA & PIPA have a backup plan: secretive trade agreements like ACTA & TPP. If we can't stop these backroom deals, the internet's future belongs to SOPA's backers. DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO SPREAD THE WORD, CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES, YELL FROM THE STREET CORNERS, ALL OF IT! You can start by using the form below to send a message. Get more detail from KILLACTA.org

I urge you to vote no on ACTA and to communicate its severe problems to your colleagues. ACTA's vague language locks us into obsolete copyright and patent laws, preventing democracies from updating their laws to unlock new economic and social opportunities.It criminalizes harmless remixes by ordinary users if they achieve 'a commercial scale' (art 2.14.1) which many amateur videos do on sites like Youtube. And it criminalizes legitimate websites by making them responsible for user behavior ('aiding and abetting' art 2.14.4).Worse, it permanently bypasses the democratic process by empowering the 'ACTA Committee' to 'propose amendments to [ACTA]' without your approval. (art 6.4) In other words, it's impossible to know what you're voting for.The global movement against the US law SOPA showed that internet freedom is a crucial issue which belongs in the legislative process of each country. You should view ACTA as an attempt by a handful of companies to circumvent the democratic process, and you should vote against it.Thank you. Please reply if you have any questions.

August 11, 2010

Music News from the Rock Station, 92-7 WQLZ by Bishop

How much longer?

So, last week news broke directly from Ozzy's mouth that a Black Sabbath reunion is in the works, but there was no timetable as to when that would happen. It was mentioned in passing during some radio interview with Ozzy last week that the band would do the ultimate Sabbath album and tour. Now Ozzy is saying that the reunion won't be happening for about another year or two.

And the winner of the world's greatest drummer is ...

About a week ago, “Rhythm” magazine began a poll of its readers to find out who the world's greatest drummer is from the past 25 years. Out of 102,000 poll participants, 37 percent voted for, non other than, Slipknot's drummer Joey Jordison. Dream Theater, and current Avengend Sevenfold drummer, Mike Portnoy was a close 2nd with Dave Grohl falling in 4th place (see the full list here). If you've had the privilage of seeing Slipknot live, especially back in/around 2005 when Joey pulled the whole Tommy Lee drum solo with a twist, it's easy to understand why Jordison was bestowed this honor. Take that Carl Buford!

Bloody show

Finally, who's up for going to GWAR? The out-of-this-world band takes their “Bloddy Tour of Horror” show to Pops in Sauget October 28th!

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