Re: [LAU] Album produced in Linux

On 06/02/14 01:13, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: ... I care because I want continued access to non-centralise (peer to peer) distribution networks, for information and for cultural works. So I choose to work in a way that prefers these channels. That choice is related to the kind of society I want to live in, as such it is a deeply political choice. Huge centralised server networks certainly make it easier for the user to consume what is offered, and perhaps make distribution of approved works easier for a broad range of conforming artists. News Limited is a very convenient source of news and information, very dominant here but consistently full of bullshit. Information and cultural works are increasingly blocked from centralised server networks for all kinds of reasons, some of which certainly contradict my idea of appropriate content. Most people don't seem to care much how that information, music and other content is filtered or for what purposes. Here (in Australia) the level of secrecy with regard to public policy and decision making and the extent to which mainstream media is filled almost exclusively with vacuous nonsense is getting worse and worse. We seem to believe it is the right way to go ... at least when it comes to actually choosing via elections (voting is compulsory and preferential here, we have well over 90% voting with plenty of choice available). If this is to be the easy, mainstream way I will choose the more difficult, fringe path. My tastes are frugal, I'm not young and I don't have dependants so I'll probably escape the harshest effects of steady shift in social structures here. Most of us seem willing to embrace it, and so we will, but I can at least keep a little bit independent on a personal level and argue against it whenever I can. Simon