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On the bright side, you won't be bothered by bad elevator music for the three days it would take to rescue you.

It has been deemed legal by their lawmakers and courts and since the laws and court decisions have not changed/been overturned to make them illegal, this is simply false.

screw these liars trying to pervert and poison the minds of impressionable youth! get it through your heads you greedy corps, it's not illegal in canada!, and the majority of the public doesn't consider it wrong where you've bought the laws making it illegal in other nations!

He did what? I'm confused considering he said he would never buy it back.

How about you cite some references there?

"Source? When did Puff Daddy say he invented the internet?
Also the man graduated from college. He runs a music business. Thats as far away from a thug as one can get."

I said the thug claims he invented the remix.

Source? Try here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/sim-explorer/ explore-items/-/B000065CT3/0/101/1/none/purchase/r ef%3Dpd_sxp_r0/102-9077773-6790560

You can find more by doing a Google Search on the title/lyric "we invented the remix."

As for the business savvy of Combs, just remember that business degrees do not teach people to use baseball bats on your business partners in order that they sign away their 50% ownership in your business directly to you for free.

Point is, Combs is a thug-wannabe and deserves to be locked up just like Suge Knight, not rewarded with a fat contract with McDonalds.

Here's an article on the potential McDonald's contract:

http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2005/07/0602.cfm

If I were to make my own MP3 silent tune of exactly the same length and put it online, would I be infringing their copyright?

You don't fuck with John Fucking Cage

If I were to make my own MP3 silent tune of exactly the same length and put it online, would I be infringing their copyright?

Don't fuck with John Fucking Cage

Vague and unsubstantiated like your post?
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2005/02/1603.cfm

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-jobs16feb16, 1,4754180.story?coll=la-headlines-business

LA Times + more - do a google news search
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2005/02/1603.cfm

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-jobs16feb16, 1,4754180.story?coll=la-headlines-business

Well your friend is wrong - it's now been confirmed by the LA Times.

What is this, some Apple cabal tha I've awakened?
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2005/02/1603.cfm

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-jobs16feb16, 1,4754180.story?coll=la-headlines-business

These guys used to be cool back when I was in grade school. It is pretty lame that they have to make terrible songs that are anti-Bush just to sell an album. What ever happened to selling albums because the music is good?

Here's a choice quote plus the link (I almost got sick reading it; they sound like quasi-hippies to me):

"Since then, however, these clown princes of hip-hop have grown from B-Boys to men who rock the mic for social change, using their lyrics to decry a host of societal and political ills."

Completely off topic, but also very funny:

Anyway, sorry for the rant...21.5 hours of broken windows installations on the weekend will do that to you...

Hehe, you think that's worrying? How about the case of Mike Batt (of the UK childrens' TV animation "the Wombles" fame) being sued for alledgedly plagiarising John Cage's composition "4'33" - which consisted of four minutes and thirty three seconds of... silence! His track was one minute of silence and, presumably as a joke, was credited to Batt/Cage, which is probably what the frenzied lawyers jumped on to kick off the lawsuit.

Mike paid out an alledged six figure sum in an out of court settlement to the John Cage Trust, shocking stuff! You can read the CNN coverage here and also at ChartAttack. Sometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction ;)

Weird Al typically pays royalties for the tunes he uses. There was a big flap over Amish paradise. He negotiated with and paid the label for parody rights and it upset Coolio quite a great deal. Click here for more details
Or here

His "wife" Kim is in fact guitar legend Kim Thayil of Soundgarden.

Last post of the day. Stay strong, sisters.

As a silver car spins slowly the lyrics clearly heard:

From the sky would fall an incessant rain of bombs
We had nowhere to go but retreat underground
Our continent...waved a load of mines
Growing our food was a risk at any time
The sudden brutality we had to confront
Forced us many years to a life into the ground
When I came out after having hidden for so long under

At least when VW used Stereolab's Parsec in their New Beetle ad they had the presence of mind to select a song by the leftist group that didn't have any lyrics at all.

'Course, the ultimate folly in recent memory was GM buying the rights to a a Chumbawumba (née the ultra-Marxist Crass) song for their car ad... the proceeds of which were used to lobby against GM. Ha!