I want to sing to myself.

Trust is mutual, it can't be enforced, it can only be gained. So the computer industry tells you they can't trust you. Not only that but they don't trust you not just on their own behalf but on the behalf of other industries, such as the entertainment business.

Nice, if you like that kind of thing, I actually don't. Somewhere in the back of my mind there is a little voice, that says things such as, how dare they, I am not buying into your version of reality. In fact I reject you and your business out of hand. When I was a few years younger I used to go to the cinema with friends once a week. Get that people, a film once a week, and that was not too many years ago. Then came the age of the super cinema, multiplexes and so forth. These came and removed some of the huxter selling a warm fizzy drink, and the bar of chocolate and so forth, now they come with supersized mountains of butter not poured but drizzled on many flavoured popcorn, over priced, along with the overpriced candy water, which I may talk about that another day.

Then you are ushered to a seat for your experience.

What are you greeted with straight away.

In one case I was assaulted, well at least in legal terms. Remember the printed word, the verbal word and their ilk can amount to assault. I was going to be entertained and not only was I sitting there but I got so annoyed I shouted out my objection in the cinema and I could see that there were some who didn't get it, and some who did.

I was told that if I had certain things on me such as a camera I would have it taken off me, I would be detained and having this was enough for them to eject me from the cinema and level criminal charges. Excuse me, but that is RUBBISH you can't make up the law, and who got together and issued that warning, but a threat of physical violence is a crime in most jurisdictions who is to be charged with this, the editor of the piece, or the cinema manager?

This extension of copyright to the level of bullying is crazy, I am incensed. Further more I would like to help the copyright extremists what this kind of thing does to me. Not only to I complain here, and tell my friends. I also write about it here, and I will go out of my way to let more people know that the "entertainment" industry wants to own their time, and money and for what so they can abuse their customers. Hint people have a look at SCO in the USA to see what happens when you sue your customers. Just because you are big and the customers are small customer rejection is the way forward here.

Anyway this may seem a long way from the title of this piece, so after my "vent" above I thought I would say we have a strange piece of reality out there now.

We have the strange set up where the entertainment industry is basically marketing the work of others. It appears to me that it wants to own it forever.

Are they are restricting your access to choice in the fields of endeavour?

Ever wonder why you can't get a book or CD when the marginal cost of production is so low? If you knew what you wanted yourself you might actually choose works that are not available or controlled making the big buck.

Recently I was in a big book shop, and I got a surprise, you can't get books that are a couple of years old, you can't even order them on computer, there is no market for that sort of thing it appears. Well let me shine a little light on this subject for you.

Authors contracts are not to make the author rich. They are to make the publishing house rich. A couple of years ago I ventured to write a book with a friend of mine, the subject would have been hard enough but we had a disaster which I won't document at this time, we withdrew from the contract before it got to happening.

Strange stuff, very strange stuff. The best advice if you are ever going to approach a writing contract is to put by a month to research book contracts. There are many good resources on the Internet, and some of them will advise you about how to get more out of such a contract.

Anyway where was I, ohh yes the title of this entry, well it is there for a reason. ;-)

If I wrote a song myself and recorded it onto CD I am forbidden from playing that CD in public, without written permission from me to play it so.

The written permission must be from the publisher. Do you see a pattern here?

Is the producer (not publisher, this is the singer, author or actor) indentured, and the customer ignored.

Are both told by the person in the middle, "You'll take what your given".