So Amazing, So Illegal

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 12, 2009 @03:05AM from the something-to-think-about dept.

Jamie gave me a nice writeup of a mashup where the writer shares some random youtube mashup video that you maybe have seen before called the Mother of all Funk Chords. It's a pretty amazing artistic achievement and probably worth at least a quick glance of your time. But the larger point should be taken seriously. He says "If your reaction to this crate of magic is 'Hm. I wonder how we'd go about suing someone who "did this" with our IP?' instead of, 'Holy crap, clearly, this is the freaking future of entertainment,' it's probably time to put some ramen on your Visa and start making stuff up for your LinkedIn page. Because, this is what your new Elvis looks like."

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But without copyright protections... by Reality+Master+201 · 2009-03-12 03:10 · Score: 5, Funny

nobody would ever produce music, art, or literature. Which is also why works need to be protected for a century or longer.
Ice ice baby by BadAnalogyGuy · 2009-03-12 03:10 · Score: 5, Funny

Theirs goes, 'ding ding ding dingy ding-ding.' Ours goes, 'ding ding ding ding dingy ding-ding.'
The future of entertainment seems so old (so old).
1. Re:Ice ice baby by Samschnooks · 2009-03-12 03:25 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Thanks a lot! Now I have the bass line from Ice Ice Baby going through my head!
  Pay back:
  The Oscar Meyer Weiner song. "Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Weiner ..."
  Or "Who wear's short shorts..."
  God, if you say, "What?" I've never heard of those." I'll have to put this onion back on my belt. Because that was the style when I was growing up. Right after the Vietnam War. Ford was President and this Peanut farmer from Georgia was running against him, Chevy Chase loved to make fun of Ford on that new show "Live on Saturday Night". Taxes were....
  What were we talking about again?
Re:Um, what? by eln · 2009-03-12 03:11 · Score: 5, Funny

it's probably time to put some ramen on your Visa and start making stuff up for your LinkedIn page.
Can anyone explain what the hell this means?
I think it means CmdrTaco is off his meds again.
Gasp by Quiet_Desperation · 2009-03-12 03:27 · Score: 5, Funny

it's probably time to put some ramen on your Visa and start making stuff up for your LinkedIn page. Because, this is what your new Elvis looks like
Right! Wait. What?
Re:Nice link, not by L4t3r4lu5 · 2009-03-12 03:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Hi, Bureau of Political Insanity here. I'm afraid your phrase "words of ethnic descent" is no longer the preferred phrase. We believe that this is still too much of a segregation between "words of ethnic descent" and "words of non-ethnic descent."

From now on all words, regardless of hue, palette, or Pantone reference, shall simply be refered to as "words." For instance, these words are just words, they are not "coloured words", "words of ethnic descent", or "words which have been highlighted because they signify something different to any other word. They are just as useful as the other words, and we applaud their contribution to society without at all decreasing the contributions from all other words, regardless of origin."

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Re:Mashups by dkleinsc · 2009-03-12 03:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Without mashups, we'd all be able to touch M.C. Hammer.

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Re:Um, what? by iminplaya · 2009-03-12 04:05 · Score: 5, Funny

You can buy CDs with music already on them?

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What?
Re:Um, what? by noidentity · 2009-03-12 05:55 · Score: 5, Funny

You can buy CDs with music already on them?
Yeah but the guy who burns them has like never heard of mp3s. He burns them as uncompressed WAV files or something, so you only get like 78 minutes per disc. On the plus side, he has a badass label printer.