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Talon Brown

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  1. Maybe you should practice what you preach and be more tolerant of other people's beliefs.
  2. I don't want to look like a bodybuilder. I want to look like Mike Ness of Social Distortion circa the early 90s or Dean Winchester from Supernatural. Ruggedly handsome but not a model. I'm just getting into mesh bodies after fighting it all these years and finding a face I like is a nightmare. I had a system body and punk style I was happy with and trying to replicate that in mesh has been nothing but sheer aggravation.
  3. Quite frankly I'd be willing to deal with the sales tax had they not already increased the annual premium sub from $75 to $99 but they did and this is only adding insult to injury. I'll be cashing out and going basic when my sub comes up for renewal in a few months.
  4. Alternatively, perhaps they're IMing you because they find trying to have an actual conversation in local, amidst all the other chatter going on, frustrating AF and it's easier to focus on talking to one person in IM. Or maybe that's just me.
  5. I prefer IM in general. Local in a group environment. I despise voice and have it disabled. The few times I've enabled it have indicated that I have zero interest in listening to the people that love to use it.
  6. The problem is a lot of you seem to think the DJs working these clubs have any say in any of that nonsense. Next time you're in a club with these issues look for the DJ application and read it. You'll be surprised at how many rules and requirements they have for staff they're not even paying.
  7. It's taking up valuable server space that's desperately needed for yet more political threads.
  8. Interesting, it seems someone is doing a bit of purging in this thread. Posts I wrote earlier are nowhere to be found but responses to them were left behind. I wasn't warned or given any notice that I have violated any rules so I must presume that someone is playing favorites behind the scenes.
  9. Women are merely "people with uteruses" and now fetuses are merely tissue to be excised without a second thought like a cyst. This is why I laugh at you, your increasingly dehumanizing rhetoric is so abhorrent that it's either laugh or cry in despair at the worldview you espouse.
  10. Yet again I'm amazed at the lengths some people are willing to go to in order to placate their corporate overlords. Geoblocking is a thing, VPNs to bypass it are also a thing. The internet was designed to survive a nuclear war, it's also designed to route around censorship no matter how valid one may consider it to be. I personally consider that a feature, not a bug.
  11. I hope all your listeners are in Canada or else you're also violating music industry "laws." From their website All TorontoCast streams are Licensed by SOCAN under tarring code 22f and are under the ownership of TorontoCast. The SOCAN license covers Canadian listeners. Additionally, there could be licensing obligations in other territories potentially according to those territories licensing laws.
  12. You know I'm getting real tired of you conflating actual laws with whatever bull****** propaganda the music industry uses to scare people into submission. You're not going to goto jail for not paying their "licensing" fees. They may sue you but that's a civil, not criminal case. As for what you can do, you can do anything you want as long as you're willing to accept the consequences. Some of us are clearly less worried about them than others here.
  13. "Every time I try to get out they pull me back in..." I'm not supporting piracy, refusing to pay outrageous royalties intended for ad supported internet radio stations isn't piracy. I used to the term "pirate" stream earlier as a comparison to pirate radio which also isn't piracy, it's illegal because they lack a broadcasting license which is a different matter altogether. And I'm glad you've spent so much time with great DJs, now go ask them if they're paying royalties and to who. As for dying scenes, I don't know what scenes you're in but the ones I'm in have been dying for years.
  14. I'm going to make this my last post on the topic. I had hoped other DJs would chime in here but as usual whenever this subject comes up the majority of SL DJs would rather stay in the shadows than argue over this bullsh*t. Yes, the DJ is responsible for the royalties in SL because God knows the venues certainly aren't paying them. They're not even paying the DJs, we're lucky if they pony up for a club stream for everyone to use rather than expecting every single DJ to run their own stream on their own dime. So basically it comes down to this, most SL DJs are running private "pirate" streams because they're not paying royalties to an industry that would drive every single one of them offline if they could. We know the risks and we still do it. Why? Certainly not for the money, that's for damn sure. We do it because we love the music and want to share it with others who are as passionate about it as we are. For this we are branded pirates and compared to copybotters. It's no damn wonder the music scene in SL has been dying over the past 6 years given these conditions. Sure there are a few popular clubs left, the ones that somehow survive on advertising or are running as a labour of love by the owners. The rest are either dead or dying and it's a damn shame because we've lost a lot of good DJs and the music they spun along the way.
  15. I'm sorry I didn't really clarify what I meant by my earlier statement by my distain for the "you'll own nothing and like it" future. I know I don't own the music either way. I was thinking more about how media is moving away from physical to digital distribution and how in the process it's entirely possible for customers to buy a "license" to digital media only to have access to it stripped away with absolutely no recourse because they only had a "license" which could be terminated at any time by the media conglomerate that sold "it" to them. That's why I buy physical media. I'm not playing their game.
  16. I swear to God it's corporate overreach like this that will slowly push me into becoming a communist. My playing music over a stream to a few people is no different than playing the CD to a group of friends in my house. Granted, I know the music industry would love to charge us for that as well but until then they can go f**k off and fight it in court if they wish to waste the time and money for the 1000L in tips I might make on a good night in SL.
  17. Not to attack you personally but this attitude is just one of the reasons I have and will continue to tell RIAA to go f**k itself. It's also the reason I buy CDs and rip my own MP3s instead of buying digitally. I'm not buying into their "you'll own nothing and like it" future.
  18. I would argue there's a distinction to be made between a SL DJ and a "webcaster" as they define it. We're interactive, not pre-programmed and we can skip or select our own music at will.
  19. The amount of listeners is entirely relevant. The server supports 25 listeners total so there's no possible way it could have a 26th connection much less "millions." As for thousands of DJs, I think you're vastly overestimating the number of active DJs in SL. Is the music industry losing money due to "unlicensed" DJs? Maybe. Are the artists? Nope. They see so little of the money from license fees it may as well not exist for them. Again, go ask them who the real thieves are in the business. It's not the DJs.
  20. Youtube is different, they have algorithms in place to scan uploaded video for copyrighted material and take action. (Sometime this action is completely at odds with reality but that's another story.) Unlike Youtube there are so many different Shoutcast providers, spread across so many countries that I'd actually like to hear of a single case of one being taken down for playing "unlicensed" music.
  21. No? Who's copying anything here? I bought the music, I stream the music to less than 25 people on a server. Where's the crime? The music industry would love for you to think it's a crime but ask the actual musicians who the real thieves are in this situation and it won't be the DJs.
  22. Given the small size of the typical SL crowd I can't imagine paying royalties to anyone or anyone caring either way. We're not running advertising supported radio streams here and the tips we make are miniscule in comparison to what RIAA and ASCAP would demand of us. If you're worried about being sued, don't do it. The rest of us will carry on and RIAA can go f**k itself.
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