Ruthie was amused to hear on the radio this morning that Virgin Media have sent out some nasty letters to their customers who have allegedly been illegally downloading music and threatening to cut them off. Ruthie wonders when it has become the duty of service providers to enforce the law as opposed to say, the police, and wonders when defendants allegedly (note use of that word) engaged in criminal consipracies not only get thrown into jail, and have their assets confiscated, but have their phones cut off for using the telephone network in furtherance of a criminal enterprise.
Ruthie was also hugely amused to hear four students who had received letters being interviewed, and who were disgusted not to receive the letter but to be accused of downloading Amy Winehouse. (Who as Ruthie can testify having witnessed her performance at Glastonbury is truly in need of rehab.)
Amazingly enough, other broadband service providers are available, who Ruthie suspects are about to get a lot more customers.
When will record companies start to understand that they may have to go without bubbly at the next few shareholders meetings until they can devise some alternative means of extracting cash from the music loving public?
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You went to an Amy Winehouse concert? I never thought of you that way before.
No I went to Glastonbury festival. Amy just happened to be performing. I have to confess I listened to her in my tent, in the absence of visuals her errors were even more glaring.
Why what did you have me down for? When I’m working I tend to listen to classical, modern Russians, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. Or if I’m in a really bad mood, Wagner.
Otherwise its either metal soul or jazz. Charlie Parker and Nine inch Nails depending on my mood. I trained as a musician before becoming a lawyer. A lawyer friend of mine who recently heard me sing has suggested I make a CD, so I’ve persuaded a friend to make a recording.
I was thinking either Vaclav Nelhybel or Eric Clapton, both acoustic and electric. I was trained as a musician (timpani) as well, but no one who has heard me sing since puberty has urged me to do so again.
Wagner wrote great stuff for timpani. It was that militaristic bent.
If it’s that Nazi thing you allude to then I’d say that musicians choose their fans and more than barristers can choose their clients.
In every orchestra that I have played in the percussion player was always treated like the classroom dunce. True, its arguably easier than say, lead violin, but anyone who thinks its easy should have a go..and try not to lose count for 4000 rest prior to their two note triangle solo…
True of percussion in general, but never the timpanist. He’s always a star, and gets all the hot chicks after the performance. But I only did it for the music.
Hi Ruthie,
This is totally off topic, I’m afraid, but I am having horrendous problems with my blog – its been hijacked by a guy called Paul Masterson, and for the moment I can do nothing about it; my url has therefore changed – it is no longer lawminx.blogspot.com but minx610.blogspot.com, so you’ll have to ammend your link to me, Im afraid!!
(*rushes off, stressed, to tell everyone else of this catastrophe*!!!)
Another post, if you please…your public demands it.
“Another post, if you please…your public demands it.”
By contrast: “Geeklawyer, Not one more post please… the public demands it.