"We are facing a very new and a very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion called the blank tape. And it is like a great tidal wave just off the shore. This video cassette recorder and the blank tape threaten profoundly the life-sustaining protection, I guess you would call it, on which copyright owners depend, on which film people depend, on which television people depend and it is called copyright." -- Jack Valenti, testifyng before Congress 1982-04-12
[Sorry, but I can't resist adding an editorial comment to this one. Y'all -- except for the young'uns -- remember when we still had broadcast television and big-budget movies, right? Before The VCR-induced collapse of those two industries later in the 1980s? Back when we had a whopping three major broadcast networks instead of the measly five we have now (I'm ignoring PBS for now since it's non-commercial, whether it counts as major or not, and I honestly have no idea how many cable networks there are). Gosh, it's such a shame that we didn't implement legally-mandated Digital Restrictions Management systems on VCRs when we had the chance, or outlaw home recording outright, so we could still have profitable broadcast television to watch!]
This coming Saturday, 10 May 2008, at the Oregon Ridge Nature Center, will be the Music in the Woods Traditional Music Fest. (Rain date is Sunday, 11 May 2008.) Free admission to the festival.
The Homespun Ceilidh Band will be performing a twenty-minute set at 1:40 PM. So if you come to the festival because you want to see us, make sure you don't lose track of time and miss our short set. (I've never been to this event before, and have no idea whether their stages tend to run early, late, or on time.)
Oregon Ridge is a little north of Baltimore (exit 20B off of I-83)
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