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Song Sites Face Legal Crackdown
CaptainPotato writes "According to the BBC, the Music Publishers' Association is stepping up to launch the next phase in the music industry's battle against online music. The MPA is demanding jail time for the maintainers of websites offering unlicensed song scores and lyrics. The MPA President has stated that closing websites and imposing fines is not enough, stating that by 'throw [ing]in some jail time I think we'll be a little more effective' in its crusade." We just recently reported on the pearLyrics cease-and-desist order as well.
...only outlaws will sing.
Who in the HELL ever buys sheet music for lyrics?
Anyone?
Bueller?
Didn't think so.
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
Talk about lawsuit happy...can there really be that much money in song lyrics and sheet music?!?
Reminds me of that South Park episode, "Now Britney wont be able to buy her third caribbean island, all because of you evil children and your selfish downloading of music!"
I am absolutely certain there is a special ring of hell reserved for these RIAA goons and their SCO-like tactics.
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It seems that they are in a quest to prove everyday to the world that they are even more stupid than previously supposed to be.
SeqBox
I wonder why suicide is on the rise.. surely the world is always becoming a better place?
which is totally what she said
Great, now people will be writing about Jimi Hendrix singing "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" in Purple Haze and Creedence Clearwater Revival singing "There's a bathroom on the right" in 'Bad Moon Rising'
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Why didn't he just come out and say what he really wanted to say:
"Just prison time! That's not enough! These low life scum deserve nothing more than to be stoned to death (women aren't allowed to partake in the stoning, of course). They have stolen food from the mouths of hungry little children and strangled kittens. Well they would strangle kittens if they could. There probably terrorists as well you know!"
Will common sense ever return to the world? I think not with people like this running things.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
Is this the real life- Is this just fantasy-
Caught in a landslide-
No escape from reality-
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see-
I'm just a poor boy,i need no sympathy-
Because I'm easy come,easy go,
A little high,little low,
Anyway the wind blows,doesn't really matter to me,
To me
Mama,just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger,now he's dead,
Mama,life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away-
Mama ooo,
Didn't mean to make you cry-
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow-
Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters-
Too late,my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine-
Body's aching all the time,
Goodbye everybody-I've got to go-
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth-
Mama ooo- (any way the wind blows)
I don't want to die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all-
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche,scaramouche will you do the fandango-
Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me-
Galileo,galileo,
Galileo galileo
Galileo figaro-magnifico-
But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me-
He's just a poor boy from a poor family-
Spare him his life from this monstrosity-
Easy come easy go-,will you let me go-
Bismillah! no-,we will not let you go-let him go-
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let him go
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go let me go
No,no,no,no,no,no,no-
Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go-
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me-
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye-
So you think you can love me and leave me to die-
Oh baby-can't do this to me baby-
Just gotta get out-just gotta get right outta here-
Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters-,nothing really matters to me,
Any way the wind blows....
I guess we need to make room in the jails.
The MPA is demanding jail time for the maintainers of websites offering unlicensed song scores and lyrics.
Time to let all the copyright honoring murderers out of jail to make room. After all, the people they killed probably illegally downloaded music!
Society knows who the "real criminals" are.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
Shit I just thought a set of Lyrics, Dammit agian. Off to get a alumnium foil Hat and hide
This reminds me of something a virtual radio commentator that you hear when playing a recent game says:
"Remember, you shouldn't wistle the tunes you hear on the radio because it breaks the author's copyright. Wistling is killing the music industry!"
So here, for your illegal enjoyment, are the lyrics for Daft Punk's track 'Around the World', encoded in a C style language for your benefit.
for(i=0;i<143;i++)
{
printf("Around the World\r\n");
}
Jolyon
Am I an illegal now?
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Downloading your free music and dooming these entertainers to lives of only semi-luxury. How do you sleep at night mister?
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Actually, the Recording Industry A**holes of America have struck gold this time! Do you have any idea how many times I have grown to hate a perfectly good song because some tone deaf moron could just look up the lyrics and try to imitate Brittney Spears? I can't tell you how much it grates my nerves to hear the greatest songs of our generation being brutalized by people just because they know the words!
Now, the RIAA can keep everyone in the dark so everyone can just sit and listen peacefully without being forced to endure someone's immitation of scratching their nails across a chalkboard. An experience that would otherwise be followed by them asking you if they should go on American Idol. Next, artists will be sued for publishing their lyrics as well so there will be no distractions between their corporate mind sex attempting to portray society/culture and my ears.
Oh happy days!
Perfecting Discordia
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I gotta say that sounds more like you listen to a lot of porn... ;)
we are all invisible unless we choose otherwise
And then play pinball?
I think what the MPA wants a piece of the karaoke money. This is possibly the only way to make money off the words of songs. I for one would be glad if karaoke would die because of this. When I'm drowning my sorrows at the local water hole the last thing i want to hear is an off tune drunken idiot.
Knowledge = Power
P= W/t
t=Money
Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make
Damn! they've finally caught on the my scheme! All this time I avoided the Kazaa controversy by downloading illegal sheet-music and having some local band play it for me while I record it! There goes my free music :(
My highschool made me BRAKE THE LAW!
I guess they didn't realize what was at steak..
BREAKING NEWS: Sony unveils perfect DRM
All new releases are simply "BEEEEEP" for 74 minutes, censoring the lyrics and music so nobody can copy the artist's, er, record company's intellectual property in any way, shape or form.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43029/ RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs
LOS ANGELES--The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that it will be taking legal action against anyone discovered telling friends, acquaintances, or associates about new songs, artists, or albums. "We are merely exercising our right to defend our intellectual properties from unauthorized peer-to-peer notification of the existence of copyrighted material," a press release signed by RIAA anti-piracy director Brad Buckles read. "We will aggressively prosecute those individuals who attempt to pirate our property by generating 'buzz' about any proprietary music, movies, or software, or enjoy same in the company of anyone other than themselves." RIAA attorneys said they were also looking into the legality of word-of-mouth "favorites-sharing" sites, such as coffee shops, universities, and living rooms.
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he rationalized that the answer would be at www.nameofthatthing.com - in this case www.spider.com. So he typed that in... and suffice it to say, what he got had little to do with spiders.
It was a goth porn site. The main page was some chick with her tits out, nothing more than he'd seen on national geographic, but it made him really mad for some reason.
It made me mad to. It is now some business. No goth tits. Thanks for nothing dirtbag.