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Wednesday, August 07, 2002
Politics :: MP3 party :: From The Register, The inspiration for the party's name is drawn from the MP3 community, who swap digital media files on-line. "The downloading of music is not an economic phenomenon, it is cultural and political," Party Leader Ruslan G. Fedorovsky told ElectricNews.Net. "MP3 collectors aren't just people who want to listen to music for free, they are part of a community." The politics of music? Well, why not. Everyone knows that MTV and Levis were instrumental in bringing down the USSR, the old Soviet Union, so who knows what an MP3 party might accomplish . . . although I have my . . . doubts. Fedorovsky, who is the managing director of audiobooksforfree.com, said the party's philosophy is based on the mathematical theory of complex systems, which states that complex systems of any kind are inherently dysfunctional. Therefore when social, legal and administrative systems reach a certain level of complexity they cease functioning, he said. The MP3 Party wants to apply this mathematical theory to politics and government. In other words, not just: I want my free mp3s! Right. Abbie Hoffman, anyone?
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