Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers

An anonymous reader writes "Apparently, if you even have been *thinking* about bootlegging the Mile High Music Festival this coming weekend in Denver you've already been sued. No joke. Event producer AEG has already filed trademark infringement claims against 100 John Does and 100 Jane Does in anticipation that they're going to bootleg the event. Since none of the sued parties have actually done anything yet, no one's showing up in court to protest the lawsuit either, so it moves forward... meaning that AEG can use it to get all sorts of law enforcement officials (US Marshals, local and state police and even off-duty officers) to go seize bootleg material."

Comments

Well...

[fyngyrz]

While I agree that mocking other people's taste in music is pathetic and contributes nothing

Well... unless it's rap, of course. Though calling rap "music" is probably going way, way too far anyway.

Re:Well...

[fyngyrz]

Just because the soulless, misogynistic, thug-wannabe rap outnumbers it by orders of magnitude doesn't mean the good rap music doesn't exist.

No, you've got me wrong. I'm not objecting to the rhymes; I'm objecting to the complete lack of musical merit of a "music" style that is based upon speech (not song.) I find the terminology "rap music" to be an oxymoron. This is what makes it subject to mockery.

The content of the lyrics would have to be addressed individually if one were to try to find merit in them; the mode, however, is fairly uniform and I'm quite comfortable dissing it.

Music, in my view, requires one to play an instrument, or sing (thus turning one's voice into an instrument.) Talking, screaming, spitting... these things are not musical. Speaking in rhythm is rhyming. It is, at best, a form of poetry.

Spouting rhyme, with or without musical accompaniment, doesn't qualify as music. It is what it is, and you may well enjoy it for whatever reason spoken rhyme trips your trigger, but it still isn't musical. In order to make that leap, they'll have to learn to sing.

Geez man, you sound like my mother.

Your mother is clearly a woman of considerable musical insight.