Rob Myers
Since 2003
Works in United States of America

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BIO
Rob Myers is an artist and hacker based in the UK.

I have been creating images of the contemporary social and cultural environment through programming, design software and visual remixing since the early 1990s. My work is influenced by popular culture and high art in equal measures. My interest in remixing and sampling has led to my involvement in the Free Culture movement. I have been involved in the public consultation regarding the Creative Commons 2.0 and CC-UK licenses. All my visual art is available under a Creative Commons license.

My interest in programming has led to my involvement with the Free Software movement. I developed the Macintosh version of the Gwydion Dylan programming language compiler. All my software is available under the GNU GPL.
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: Curt Cloninger


On Friday, July 09, 2004, at 04:15AM, Eric Dymond <e.dymond@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>please see:
>http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/flamewar/

Oh, please.

Dissing a listmember and then crying foul when someone calls you out on it is not a flamewar. If this isn't a serious place, why are you taking the objections to your posting so seriously?

Lighten up and stop being so pedantic about this. Your original posting wasn't funny. I've been there on more than one occasion myself. You'll live.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Blog vs Board (re: Blogging Survey)


On 7 Jul 2004, at 16:37, Lee Wells wrote:

> What is there to be afraid of?

We live in times where our "leaders" want us to fear irrationally,
totally, focussably, exploitably. The trickle-down seems to be
starting.

> There are no shadows in virtual space.

Well there are but you have to pre-compute them and paint them on
yourself...

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Blog vs Board (re: Blogging Survey)


Blogs can be good. So can boards. But I check my email more regularly
than I check Slashdot or Lambda The Ultimate.

Making Rhizome Raw public would differ from a blogs or boards by -spam
-trolls and... exactly how? :-)

I'm happy to pay for write access to a Rhizome that everyobdy else has
read access to. Lots of services work that way...

- Rob.

--

"If record companies sold bottled water they'd demand that poison be
added to your taps.

DISCUSSION

Re: activity


> Everyone's a suspect right.

Rhizome have been running their own echelon-style system for years.
Just go to:
http://rhizome.org/
and you can use the "search" field at the top right of the page to
search for incriminating material on anyone on the list.

Nobody's a suspect. It's everyone's job to make that clear. Think free.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Induce Act update


On Tuesday, June 29, 2004, at 05:43AM, <steve.kudlak@cruzrights.org> wrote:

>Thanks, I will write a letter to my representatives.
>People should know that the democrats can be just as
>bad about this as the republicans. Many of the RIAA
>and Columbia record folks have very intesne lobbyists
>that really hammer away at representatives and are
>very very persuasive.

The Democrats are paid for by Big Media. They are not your friends when it comes to copyright.

>I am amazed that they have taken aim at an Apple product.

See the EFF's mocked-up lawsuit.

http://www.eff.org/IP/Apple_Complaint.php

Do note that the RIAA have made it explicit that they're going after the P2P networks, not the good old hardware manufacturers. They just want to get rid of the new competition using your representatives rather than the marketplace.

>Apple has done a very good job of getting recording
>artists remuneration for their work.

No they haven't. My house has 3 iPods and several Macs (it's our main platform) so I'm not anti-Apple by any measure, but look at how they are treating the Indies in the UK and how different companies are getting different deals based on how big they are. And the record companies get the money, not the artists. The artists would only get a low-digit percentage of that money even if the record companies weren't masters of creative accounting.

>Even more interesting
>is the fact that musicians are deserting the traditional
>channels of distribution which often treat them very
>nastily. I mean you throw your rights to them, they give
>you little in return and they have a lock on your creative
>output for a long time. It benefits very well groups but
>small acts who really need the money get little or nothing.
>A friend of mine is thinking of having me publish his
>work through non-traditional channels because of this
>problem even though his work is pretty much very good
>psychedlic rock revival.

Apple would keep DRM even if it wasn't requried, because it locks users to the iPod and their store.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001557.php

Apple are *not* "good guys" in this: they should remove the DRM, oppose this act (they and Microsoft are the only major IT companes that aren't!), and stop helping the artist-screwing, kiddie-bankrupting, senator-buying old guard in the media dig their claws in as the market starts to sweep them away.

Rip, mix, burn? More like sell, spy, sue.

- Rob.