Backlash as EMI Hunts Down the Grey Album

Posted by michael on Saturday February 14, 2004 @11:51AM from the to-promote-the-progress-of-science-and-the-arts dept.

An anonymous reader writes "DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album, a remix of Jay-Z's Black Album and the Beatles White Album has become a online music sensation, even getting reviewed in Rolling Stone though only 3,000 CDs were ever made. Now EMI, which controls the Beatles copyright, is trying to shut the album down. They've sent cease and desist letters to Danger Mouse, a handful of record stores, and websites that have hosted the songs. Wired News is reporting on the backlash that has ensued, led by anti-music industry group Downhill Battle, who insists that the major record labels are stifling creativity."

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Re:MODS - please check before you +1, Informative. by linzeal · 2004-02-14 15:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

That is the most elaborate hoax site I have ever seen if that Community College is fake. Looking at his post history also does not really confirm what you say, I call troll on you.

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Re:Sounds like a corny idea in the first place by Jah-Wren+Ryel · 2004-02-14 15:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The album has rights? That's interesting. Do you think rocks and lamps have rights as well?

Shit, if a corporation can have rights, why not rocks and lamps, even freaking rutabagas ought to have rights.

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