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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.

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  1. That's stupid by MarcoPon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. Re:Lawsuits ad nauseum by Moby+Cock · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am absolutely certain there is a special ring of hell reserved for these RIAA goons and their SCO-like tactics.

    It spins them right round, baby, right round, like a record, baby, right round, round, round.

    Aaaahhhhh! Illegal lyrics, Slashdot is doomed!

  3. This post is the end of Slashdot by Vokkyt · · Score: 5, Funny
    cause it will have lyrics from Bohemian Rhapsody in it...which is seemingly appropriate in my mind.

    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....

  4. Re:Lawsuits ad nauseum by Zocalo · · Score: 5, Funny
    I am absolutely certain there is a special ring of hell reserved for these RIAA goons and their SCO-like tactics.

    I hope so, because if they get their way then that will be the only way future listeners of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" will have of finding out whether Bealzebub really does have a devil for a sideboard...

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  5. Illegal - Daft Punk 'Around The World' Lyrics by jolyonr · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  6. Re:One question: by dpilot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just keep in mind that EVERY TIME someone goes to a place like Lyrics World to find the words to a song, that's revenue deprived of some poor, starving songwriter. That's because EVERY TIME someone wanted those words to a song, if places like Lyrics World hadn't existed, they would have hopped right into the car and driven to their local music (not Record/Tape/CD) store to buy a copy of the sheet music. There's NO SUCH THING as casually wondering what the words to a song are - there's only thieving and conniving to deprive starving songwriters of the ability to feed their poor children.

    Clearly this move is going to enhance my enjoyment of music, and make me want to buy more.

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    The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
  7. Re:Maybe I listen to too much rap but... by Shadow99_1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I gotta say that sounds more like you listen to a lot of porn... ;)

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  8. Re:Man..... by FuzzyBad-Mofo · · Score: 5, Funny

    My highschool made me BRAKE THE LAW!

    I guess they didn't realize what was at steak..

  9. Re:It won't be enough... by Spackler · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.