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Kansas AG Rejects Settlement Discs

Posted by timothy on from the because-these-suck dept.

RWarrior(fobw) writes "Kansas's Attorney General has rejected 1600 CDs by 25 different artist as part of the music industry's anti-trust settlement. Is this a community values issue, a censorship issue, or just crap music being foisted off onto the public as part of a meaningless settlement?"

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  1. Once againe, Slashdot get's it all wronge by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Once again, the Slashdot writ-up and the actual story do not quite jive together. The story itself is NOT about the fact that the music industry is foisting off crappy CDs that they need to get rid of, as a part of the settlement. What the story ***IS*** about is rap music. The Kansas AG does not like the politics of the music, saying (rightly so) that it is overly sexual and violent. We ***ARE NOT*** talking about the music industry sending 2500 Engleburt Humperdink CDs to the schools and libraries. RTFA!!! And Slashdot editors: Do you even RTFA???? Clearly not.

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  2. Re:Looks Like All of the Above by gantzm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, what he said, and let's ditch physics too, that's nothing but a mere theory also.

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  3. AAAAAGHHH! by His+name+cannot+be+s · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is it just me, or doesn't the fact that the ACLU is hopping mad about this, due to the fact that it's censorship:

    [from the article]

    The American Civil Liberties Union said the decision amounted to censorship.

    "What he's doing is enforcing his concept of decency on libraries around the state of Kansas, and that's not his business," said Dick Kurtenbach, executive director of the ACLU in Kansas and western Missouri.

    AAAHHGGHGHHG!!!! Sweet jesus mother fucker! The ACLU is defending the RIAA.

    What!?

    You know, americans have a funny sense of Justice. It seems that to americans, the "civil liberties" of large,abusive litigous scumsucking bastard organizations is more important than possibly stopping that same company from blatently violating the spirit of the judgement against them. Well, that and the shitty music they were trying to foist off on the states.

    Y'know, sometimes I think it's ok to live in a backwoods country like Canada.

    *sigh*

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