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Backlash as EMI Hunts Down the Grey Album

Posted by michael on 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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  1. A Wise Man Once Said by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I got killed by 10 million pounds of sludge from New York and New Jersey

    This monkey's gone to heaven!!!

    -Fugazi

  2. endeavors.com is my mother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    endeavors.com is my mother

  3. backlash ensued? by MooKore+2004 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is slashdot trying to imitate fark?. You should get some boobies and photoshops in as well.

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    found here
  4. What is the best file storage format? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I scan important personal documents and want to be able to see them - say - 15 years from now. Should I use TIF or GIF or JPG or BMP or ??? Who can help me? Thanks!

  5. yuo FaiL it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    'You see, even list of other and the bottom uxp my toys. I'm and some of the suddeN and Asshole to others

  6. try peoplebot.com to stalk britney spears online by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    another sign of how the society is becoming more big brother... go to PeopleBot and type in 'britney spears'

  7. Ralph Nader is running for President in 2004!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now I don't have to vote for a rich New England Yalie!
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  8. Re:How stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...same here.

  9. Re:MODS - please check before you +1, Informative. by linzeal · · 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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  10. Re:Sounds like a corny idea in the first place by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · 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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    When information is power, privacy is freedom.
  11. Re:MODS - please check before you +1, Informative. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, he changed his .sig after I outed him. It used to point to slaughter.edu, now it points to Howard Community College. Did you bother to check to see if his name was on the faculty list? Thought not. Did you actually check his posting history?

    Whether you believe me or not, he is as I said - a karma whore and a troll.

    You, sir, HBT. Not by me. HAND.

  12. Re:Sounds like a corny idea in the first place by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You are the second person I've seen in as many days on Slashdot and Fark use the expression "udder shit." Just what is udder shit? Udders are cow breasts the only products they emit are milk and sweat.

    Perhaps what you were trying to say "utter shit," but just don't know English very well.

  13. Re:MODS - please check before you +1, Informative. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Update.

    He changed his .sig and his homepage. Now it points to a real institution, but he still doesn't show up on the faculty list.

    Nothing has changed, still a karma whore and a troll.