Theos-Talk Archives (July 2000 Message tt00032)

I have 11 songs all available free from the site. if anyone is interested
email me directly. BTW, One song is called Book of Dzyan and another Book of
Enoch, one is named after my daughter - Maya.

What's the album called? Well you'll have to email me to find out....

I also of course can send the CD to you of all 11 songs in better quality
audi for only $9.95 inc postage.

Sorry didn't want to advertise but MKR brought it up :-)


nos



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-theos-talk@theosophy.com
> [mailto:owner-theos-talk@theosophy.com]On Behalf Of ramadoss@eden.com
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 12:00 AM
> To: theos-l@list.vnet.net; theos-talk@theosophy.com
> Subject: Theos-World Napster Revolution
>
>
> Napster program which allows any user on the network to locate a song on
> any other user and transfer it to the local hard disk is revolutionizing
> the music industry since every user cooperatively make what they have on
> their computer available to thousands of other users on the Internet. The
> music industry has no control over the whole process and it opens up for
> upcoming musicians to distribute their works bypassing the big
> music giants
> who have a lock over whose music is available on CDs and how it
> is packaged
> and for what price it is sold.
>
> The technological approach taken by Napster is not new. It has just been
> implemented on the Internet. The future implications is enormous. Books,
> videos or anything else digitized and stored in a computer file
> can be made
> available from users to users cooperatively. Of course there is
> going to be
> some financial pain for the creators and the companies which
> currently sell
> them to the users.
>
> The current battle going on in the courts and in the congress and
> public PR
>  centers around copyright issues. But again Internet as a very powerful
> communication tool at the fingertips is going to make enormous info
> available to anyone who is interested.
>
> Luckily, copyright on all the theosophical classics have expired.
> May be it
> was planned to be so; so that the poor and rich can have access to it
> immediately and for free. Most of the classics are already
> available on the
> net. Broadband access coupled with low cost local printing will enable
> everyone to print the books at home. Are we ready to take advantage of it?
>
> While we may be dealing with Ancient Wisdom, we do not have to get tied
> down to quill and paper. Need to move on and use the modern tools much as
> we use telephone, fax, computers, jet planes etc.
>
> I think, theosophical "leaders" perhaps due to their ignorance or fear of
> losing control (just this maillist is an example - no one has control
> except the owner who is rarely seen),  or whatever other reasons
> (???) have
> not taken the initiative to use the Internet technology in an active way,
> and that may itself generate causes which reduce the relevance of
> organizations to the spread of theosophy.
>
> Keep tuned. More exciting things are going to happen. In the meanwhile let
> each one of us see what we can do.
>
> mkr
>
>
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