Democratisation of Media

[softball]

One very important one, is, no one walked into a record store, and drug everyone away in cuffs, just for doing business.

Selling and performing rock and roll, race records, nigger music (even ragtime) landed a lot of people in jail, or worse. Much worse than porn, EJ. Lives and careers and families were ruined on the flimsiest of excuses. Music is littered with victims and casualties.

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

Selling and performing rock and roll, race records, nigger music (even ragtime) landed a lot of people in jail, or worse. Much worse than porn, EJ. Lives and careers and families were ruined on the flimsiest of excuses. Music is littered with victims and casualties.

No, I'm afraid not. I know you love to argue, and I generally ignore you. But you call me out specifically here. Adult material has had much more in the way of arrest and ruin that the music industry. (And if you leave out the racial factor, the ratio goes WAY up.)
The number of video store owners arrested, put out of business, fined, restricted, was a weekly column in the video industry trade journals. This was tens and hundreds in the 80's, and it goes on today.
Not so much in the record industry, especially today.
When was the last arrest for singing a song?

Last video store raided, was within the past few days.

[softball]

Originally Posted by EmporerEJ

No, I'm afraid not. I know you love to argue, and I generally ignore you. But you call me out specifically here. Adult material has had much more in the way of arrest and ruin that the music industry. (And if you leave out the racial factor, the ratio goes WAY up.)
The number of video store owners arrested, put out of business, fined, restricted, was a weekly column in the video industry trade journals. This was tens and hundreds in the 80's, and it goes on today.
Not so much in the record industry, especially today.
When was the last arrest for singing a song?

Last video store raided, was within the past few days.

Porn, like music, is just becoming mainstream. I am sure the raids go on, but hell, I think that what guys like Jerry Lee went through blows that away.