Music Industry Issues Take Down Notices to 50 Major Lyrics Sites

alphadogg writes "A music industry group is warning some 50 website that post song lyrics that they need to be licensed or face the music, possibly in the form of a lawsuit. The National Music Publishers Association said Monday that it sent take-down notices to what it claims are 50 websites that post lyrics to songs and generate ad revenue but may not be licensed to do so. The allegedly infringing sites were identified based on a complicated algorithm developed by a researcher at the University of Georgia." The "complicated algorithm" (basis statistics using Excel and Google) is described in the NMPA's "Undesirable Lyric Website List." Anyone remember lyrics.ch?

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Re:Silly, but it is their right...

[zidium]

I'm personally not upset that Obama won, the first time.

I am upset, however, with how he has out-Bushed Bush. And I am very saddened that the very people who majorly voted for him are significantly worse off in virtually every category after 4 years of his presidency decided to vote for him again. Not because their lives were better due to a stronger economy, more liberties, more rights, or anything like that.

No, they voted for him primarily because they were given more stuff belonging to others and told they deserved it ("entitlements") and because his skin color more closely matched their own. Or simply because they are totally brainwashed into always voting Democrat.

I mourn for the hundreds of thousands killed by Obama, Snowden, and all the other whistleblowers who have been demonized, exiled, or imprisoned / assassinated over the last 9 years.

Re:Silly, but it is their right...

[zidium]

Oh, and just for the record, I *deeply* detested President Bush, both terms. I actively protested both the Afghanistan Slaughter and Iraqi Massacre, multiple times. I would spend every evening and weekend for months trying to get people aware of the WMD hoax and coming invasion, and how morally wrong it was.

I tried telling people about ECHELON since the 90s (when I was a teenager), I hosted LooseChange911.com for several months and gave Dylan some seed money back in the early 2000s when 90% of everyone believed in the official conspiracy theory of 19 Arab hijackers, many of whom were still alive (obviously never on the planes).

The last semi-OK president was Clinton, but then I'm pissed off about Ruby Ridge, the Branch Davidian Massacre, the OK City inside-job bombing, ECHELON, the World Trade Organization, the DMCA, the MPAA/RIAA AND the dot com bubble, all part and parcel of HIS Presidency.

Hell, I guess I have to go all the way back to Bush Sr., or maybe there hasn't been a good president in my entire life ;-(

The point is, it's not about Democrats or Republicans. It's about Statism and Surveillance. The Pan-opticon.