Disclaimer:  Some of the views expressed in this piece do not necessarily represent the views of this writer, and certainly do not necessarily represent those of Boycott-RIAA.

This week, Sen. Rick Santorum (R.-Pa.) made some remarks about Texas sodomy laws to an Associated Press reporter which (surprise, surprise) has the gay lobby and the Democrat Party up in arms. The full details can be found here. Predictions that Sen. Santorum will end up like Trent Lott, career-wise, have already sprung up in the media.

I am aware that, in the specifics of things, this has nothing to do with the efforts of the RIAA and other similar lobbying groups for the multinational entertainment-media complex to impose a proverbial “thousand years of darkness” technologically and otherwise with their continued vendetta against Napster long after that entity was dead and buried; against consumers in general, stereotyping and profiling all as “thieves” and “pirates” (among others); against the very existence of CD-burners, peer-to-peer, and file-sharing applications; and, most ominously, against college students who are already at a disadvantage financially as it is (student loan debt, dead-end low-paying clerical jobs, and the like); to say nothing of their push for socialist-style Big Government dictates on the make of digital technology. Yet in a way, it underscores yet again the double standard as to who you can smear or speak ill of in the media and who you can’t – a point I cannot emphasize enough, it seems.

If the head honchos and useful idiots of the RIAA (Rosen, Sherman, Glazier, etc.), or the recently-departed Michael Greene of the Grammys, or Michael Eisner of Disney or MPAA czar Jack Valenti, had besmirched, say, gays in the way that Sen. Santorum is said to have done, albeit in the context of their whining about “digital piracy” (Eisner’s favorite phrase) or something to that effect, these individuals in question would likely have been booted from their jobs (and probably with no severance pay or golden parachutes or whatever) faster than one could say ‘John Rocker.’ Ditto if they spoke similarly ill of blacks – sorry, African-Americans – or any other ethnic minority, for that matter. No-one would stand for such a thing. Yet vilify, denigrate, smear and slander college students, consumers, and computer users, and nobody in the multinational entertainment-media elite thinks twice – or more than twice, for that matter. Which shows that in the scheme of things, as usual, such groups are as loathed, reviled, despised and hated as, say, Catholics and Christians (remember the ‘elephant dung’ controversy of a few years back?), the Boy Scouts, gun owners, and drivers of S.U.V.’s. (To say nothing of smokers in Mike Bloomberg’s New York City.) With all those groups, it’s essentially open season.

Yet another thing to think about. . . .

Downloading Tom Petty's songs are piracy.
But mine are just damn ads.

Does Tom Petty fill out a different copyright form than I do? He must, because he has a LOT more protection for his songs than I have.

Last time I heard, Tom Petty was friendly to filesharing.


I especially agree with that second paragraph, with the socialist comparisions.

And they will until there is a completely unified Boycott against buying any music, videos, or what ever Riaa controls and doesn't control. I rightfully owned nearly everything Metallica produced, it was burned in a house fire, it wasn't covered, but I repurchased it, then two years later I was burglarized and guess what stolen again along with an expansive colletion of music covering 1930-2002. Litteraly thousands of dollars. DID RIAA REPLACE IT? NO. DID METALLICA REPLACE THEM? NO. I have purchased alot of over priced music in my life, BUT NO MORE! I am no longer a METALLICA fan, I burned my t-shirts and will NEVER buy any of their anything. And I will never set foot in a music store again either. WHY? BECAUSE: the music industry and riaa has made it unafordable and gotten way too greedy. MP3 swapping was helping sell music and it will again, AS LONG AS YOU ALL QUIT WHINING AND FIGHTING AMONGST YOURSELVES AND B.O.Y.C.O.T.T! duh!

has the gay lobby


I stopped reading after that, thanks lol