KissaBoo

It's a Grey Day

Current state of the world. Loading Grey Tuesday is slow, illegal arts is unresponsive, and a new torrent was put up on Supernova today - how inefficient since it appears to have the same content as a previous torrent. It appears most of the sites are not in the U.S., which makes sense - and is a little less of a statement - but quite a few of the possible US sites I visited were sharing the mp3's. I didn't try to download any, but oh well.

The saga of Grey Tuesday will probably be excruciating slow to play out and unfortunately have a silent resolution in the major press. CNN had a story on it a couple of days ago, while p2pnet has a recent post about the aftermath. This entry provides a link to the EFF's overview of the situation - perhaps this information could have persuaded this site to participate. It is too bad that NO ONE WITH INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW WHO READS THIS SITE contributed their opinion on the situation.

Though this story has failed to provoke a dialogue on this site about the nature of art, let me mention a few quick points - and I am a person who thought he was being praised for a paper he was forced to write on the nature of art for a freshman literature class until he realized in a discussion with his professor that he was being ridiculed, so my opinion should be valued.

I only realized recently that I have no proof that DJ Danger Mouse wanted his album to be distributed as wisely as possible. If there is a hierarchy of permission for distributing this album, it would have to be DJ Danger Mouse, then Jay Z, and perhaps finally the Beatles representatives.

It is amazing that a work of art produced over 35 years ago could still be so strictly defended. If in a dream tonight I learned the cure for cancer and patented it tomorrow, I could only reap the benefit until 2021, however, everyone who could read this story on the day it was posted will NEVER see a world where this album couldn't be protected. Doesn't that call for some reform or at least public discussion? Yes, one example is patent law while the other is in the realm of copyright, but which achievement would be of greater value 100 years from now?

Give credit to EMI for publicizing the Beatles and the White Album to a new generation of fans by pursuing these lawsuits, but to conjecture that even one person exists who will not buy the White Album due to the existence of the Grey Album is ludicrous. Of course, EMI's real concern is potentially losing the ability to pimp out the Beatles catalog to prop up Nike, Coke, or Toyota commercials, but this would only be a problem if one believes that a reasonable public or person could not distinguish between an artistic creation and a purely commercial endeavor.

And finally, though I try hard now not to propagate the depiction of lawyers as sleazy individuals for a variety of reasons, re-reading the big bad cease and desist order after looking at EFF's overview one realizes that the letter NEVER STATES WHAT LAW THEY BELIEVE THE RECIPIENT IS VIOLATING. They simply call the album unlawful in the second sentence and never cite any relevant law for why the album would be illegal, instead just referencing vague rights they claim to possess. For shame.

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