Blocked
So, this afternoon I ran into on of my biggest frustrations with the Taylor Network, the blocking the download of nearly all mp3s and other music files from the Internet. (As a side note, I think blocking P2P on campus makes sense just for the bandwidth issues, but not normal http traffic). I ran across this site. It looks pretty neat. How it works is you can try music, then if you like it you can buy it. I hadn’t heard of any of the artist before and wanted to take a listen, but no, I was denied, block, censored by Websense, Taylor’s filtering software. The music offered on the site is licensed under the Creative Commons License which, in my opinion, is much more like what copyright should be and how it was originally defined in the Constitution. The Creative Commons seems to be a much better, more balanced answer to copyright issues than suing teens and old ladies, perpetual copyright and DRM.
