[linux-audio-user] Re: POLL: Marketing Free Music

Tell that to David Irving. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4733820.stm They're not annoying. In a community centered around other ideals of freedom, free speech is just as relevant imo. I agree with you completely Cesare - this is precisely the point I wanted to make. I live in the U.S. - where *supposedly* free speech is held in the highest regard and legally protected. Nevertheless, if someone comes into my home spewing racist bile, I will punch them in the face, throw them out, and they will not be allowed back in. I have a right to maintain a space of my own - my domicile - where I do not have to listen to that, or have my children listen to that. On the other hand, if you were hauled off to jail for voicing unpopular views in public, I would vigorously speak in your defense, however offensive I might find those views personally. There are also people who believe in absolute free speech rights anywhere they go, and yet support laws that keep others from smoking in the workplace or other public places. Aren't they violating smokers' rights to smoke if they want to - *anywhere* they want? Those who disagree would say they have a right to work/eat in a smoke-free environment where they do not have to smell the stench of cigarette smoke, or be subjected to the harmful fumes. I would agree with them. This list is another example. I have often been reminded :) of what is considered OT here, due to the focus of this list, and I have been prepared from the outset to be shown the door if and when I cross that invisible line of what is tolerable here. (Just testing the limits of those boundaries occassionally :) ). That is perfectly acceptable to me - as a group of people has a right to come together for a common objective with certain agreed upon guidelines for acceptable behavior and discussion in order to further the purpose of their community. How can you uphold the right to free expression and simultaneously deny others their right to create environments for themselves where they do not have to listen to it? When the exercise of one person's rights violates the rights of another, who is right and who is wrong? This is where it gets tricky: where are these neutral places where anything goes without intruding on the rights of others? Jamendo is not denying anyone their right to freedom of expression in the world at large, they just don't want certain forms of it in their particular community. Anyone is free to start their own music community with as much racist or sexist filth, and as much pornographic content as they want to (subject of course to government laws and govt. censorship.) Although the the lingua-franca here is English, I would be very surprised if there were not more non-Americans here than Americans. It feels like a pretty global list. Don't leave :) - Maluvia