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EMI Customer Relations Tells It Like It Is
hype7 writes "The Register is running a story about the most outrageous email sent from a customer services rep at BMI in Germany to a customer who had difficulty playing a copy-protected CD in his CD player. One of the most stunning lines from the translation: "If you plan to continue protesting about future audio media releases with copy protection, forget it; copy protection is a reality, and within a matter of months more or less all audio media worldwide are copy protected. And this is a good thing for the music industry. In order to make this happen we will do anything within our power - whether you like it or not.""
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Axl's Absence Spurs Fan Rampage
By The Associated Press
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP)--Thousands of irate fans rampaged outside a downtown venue after a Guns N' Roses concert was canceled because lead singer Axl Rose failed to appear.
Police used pepper spray to disperse the crowd surging around GM Place Thursday night. There were no reports of injuries.
A band spokesman said bad weather in Los Angeles held up Rose's flight to Vancouver. The band practiced without him Wednesday.
The spokesman said a concert scheduled Friday at the Tacoma Dome, about 30 miles south of Seattle, would go on as planned.
Thursday's trouble began when the doors didn't open as scheduled at 6:30 p.m. Tempers flared when the cancelation was announced about an hour later.
Within 15 minutes, the crowd turned into an angry mob that smashed some GM Place windows.
Police and stadium security tried to move the crowd away from the broken glass, and ordered fans to disperse after a Roman candle was fired toward the officers.
The performance was to have been the first in the North American leg of the band's Chinese Democracy World Tour.
AP-NY-11-08-02 1312EST
I would like to take a moment and comment on this First Post. Nice work, and may all your christmases be bright.
Friday burn in direct protest of last Malda JE. "But RWS, how did you know, how did you know they were going to sell mod points?". In time, but let's wait for the IBM deal.
If we don't fight for ourselves no one will.
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Mod points have been revoked.
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Your idea WAS the stupidest thing ever and you're now unemployed and posting from a fast food joint.....