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Guitar Hero Maker Sued - Cover Song Too Awesome
volpone writes "The band "The Romantics" are suing Activision over their wedding reception favorite, 'What I Like About You,' which appears in Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the '80s. The problem is not copyright infringement; Activision had permission to make a cover version of the song. No, the problem is that the cover sounds too much like the original. 'The band's attorneys have indicated that they are seeking an injunction that would force the game to be withdrawn from sale. Although around half of the songs in the newly released Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock feature recordings by the original artists, in previous Guitar Hero games the majority of songs were cover versions.'" In not totally-unrelated news you can download the Mjolnir mix of the Halo theme for play on GHIII, free, today.
Give Thanks Today For The Slaughter Of The Pequot
The True Story Of Thanksgiving
History -- Thanksgiving was founded by white people in 1637 not to celebrate peace between the settlers and Indians, but was proclaimed by Massachusetts Gov. John Winthrop to give thanks for the massacre of 3,000 Pequot Indians, the last remnants of a tribe who had brutalized, tortured and raped white settlers.
When whites first settled in the Hudson River Valley, the Pequot, a part of the Algonquin, whose name, in the Algonquin language, meant "destroyers", began trading with the Dutch, but demanded that they be given a trade monopoly, and that all goods the Dutch wanted to sell to any Injun be first sold to them for resale. The Dutch refused and took a hostage, which was killed, and the end result was a war in which the Pequot slaughtered their neighboring Algonquins, the Metuoc, in order to prevent the Dutch from trading with them directly.
When the English settled Massachusetts, they refused to obey the trade agreements made by the Dutch, and the Pequot declared war. They attacked English settlements and slaughtered English citizens. The English retaliated, and fought a four year long war which ended in the slaughter of most of the Pequon males, and the transfer of the remaining Pequon women and children to Bermuda. The first Thanksgiving celebrated this defeat.
Now, in modern times, a group of mostly white people who claim partial Pequon descent, such as tribal leader Michael Thomas, operate casinos and sell tax-free trinkets under special protection of local law, claiming protection as members of a federal Indian reservation.
But the Jews and their communist allies among the Injuns changed the story of Thanksgiving in the last century, making it a multiculturalist holiday, and saying that it celebrated the unity of white men with the peaceful Injuns who gave them food -- ignoring the vicious trade tactics of the Pequon, their slaughter of their own racial kinsmen for profit, and their defeat and subsequent slaughter by the English.
Now, the Jews and Injuns want to end the holiday altogether, and focus instead on psychologically attacking whites by making them feel bad for what they did in defending themselves and their people from a hostile, profit- motivated racial enemy.
White people sould stand up to the Jews and communist Injuns and tell them that it was their people who started the Indian wars, their people who started the race war with white settlers, and their people who got exactly what they deserved for their centuries long history of brutality, rape and murder. And the Jews who lead and instigate this hatred should be shunned by all polite white society, their books burned, their ideas driven out, and their conversation and company barred from any hearing.
Today we give thanks for the first of the white racial victories over the Indian -- victories that led to the total domination and near extermination of their race, and the ability of white people to live -- until the coming of Jewish "civil rights" -- anywhere on this continent, in peace, without fear of being suddenly murdered, raped or tortured by bands of marauding racial enemies.
Lord High Crapflooder The Right Honourable Vlad Craig Esther McDavenpherson III
Destroyer of Mercatur.Net
Wasn't old Kaiser Willie the imbecile who started world war I with no hope of winning and then abdicated when defeat was at hand? What a glorious hero.
Control is an illusion, order our comforting lie. From chaos, through chaos, into chaos we fly
Wilhelm had no control. He had little real control at the start and by the midpoint the army operated itself without any influence from him, through to the end of the war.
I haven't played the game or heard the alleged cover. Regardless, all I can think of on the topic is last week's South Park episode, called "Guitar Queer-o". Of course if I were a musician and a facsimile of my music were being featured in a lame video game, I might sue to try to stop that. As a gay guy myself I'm not enthused about the Parker-Stones (ab)using the gay = lame meme. Pussy-whipped straight guys seem a lot closer to deserving a lame tag than guys into raw man-on-man action, but I digress. The overall mocking of Guitar Hero in the episode was pretty funny, and aside from the last minute was quite enjoyable.
No, I'm just an internet troll, hence the different spelling.
...the last remnants of a tribe who had brutalized, tortured and raped white settlers... ... in retaliation for the brutalization, torture, rape, murder, poisoning, theft and disease inflicted upon themselves.And on and on it goes. Funny world, innit?
This was actually an unprovoked attack.