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Google and Apple Order Telegram To Nuke Channel Over Taylor Swift Piracy (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Instant messaging client Telegram has for the first time blocked access to an entire channel following pressure from Google and Apple. A channel, called Any Suitable Pop, was found distributing copyright infringed copies of songs from Taylor Swift's new album 'Reputation'. It's understood that following complaints from Universal Music, Google and Apple ordered Telegram to take action.
Did someone warn people in southern England and northern France?
And since when does Google and Apple have nukes?!
#DeleteFacebook
Think you lost everyone at Taylor Swift. She's got all the talent and sex appeal of a stick of linguine.
I don't know give her a little more credit than that. Seems that at least she can count while acting out her music vids and putting down the tracks. She must have at least had some couching from musicians even if she can or can't read a lead sheet line. She has a pleasant face, a sense of timing, can carry a tune or at least seems to rely less on autotune than most of the other new faces out there.
Sure what she is putting out is hyped up over produced bubble gum oriented "pop" but how the hell else do you expect the industry to survive these days? If it were not for the endless parade of fresh faced stars showing up on youtube, muchmusic and the other industry factory outlets the whole pop music industry would simply implode and revert to artists having to have enough real talent to be able to perform well enough to have live audiences want to hear them. As it is the stage end of rock and pop has also turned into a show not an actual musical performance. Without the money to back the stage work and cost of live performance most of today's so called "song stylists" would not stand a chance on a stage without expensive presentation gimmicks provided by the production companies sponsored by mega corps like Universal. So think of the dollars spent to produce a Taylor Swift show and then you have the answer as to why the situation with the industry is the way it is.
I wish her the best for making it as far as she has and who knows she might progress to a level where what she does reach above the need for the glitz if she studies the craft and works hard.
This message was not sent from an iPhone because Peter Sellers really was a deviated prevert without a dime for the call
Another one bites the dust.. Is there any safe system that can't be censored??
On the other hand, they should have kept the thread private. Whoops!
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
She must have at least had some couching from musicians even if she can or can't read a lead sheet line. She has a pleasant face, a sense of timing, can carry a tune or at least seems to rely less on autotune than most of the other new faces out there.
Who is going to be the Harvey Weinstein of pop? I bet Simon Cowell.
Fuck you Trump guys are retarded. It's Taylor. Tyler is your boyfriend.
I don't think she needs your best wishes. According to google, she's worth about $300 million. Now I like her even less.
because everything has been "app-ified", they can just threaten to delete an app off billions of devices if you don't play along with whatever they demand?
fuck that.
She’s already got hundreds of millions of dollars - why is she so greedy that she turns to piracy? How much money does the girl need?
#DeleteChrome
She's pretty, talented, and rich.
But F^@& her if she doesn't want us stealing her music!!!!
Linux is only free if your time has no value. Windows is only free if you threaten to use Linux.
Were they threatening to remove the app from the store? Telegram should offer a separate app via sideload that is uncensored. Also, are the Telegram rooms hosted in the US? Why do they have to abide by US Laws?
I wouldn't know who this was if her music hadn't been shared outside of the ToS.
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She must have at least had some couching from musicians even if she can or can't read a lead sheet line. She has a pleasant face, a sense of timing, can carry a tune or at least seems to rely less on autotune than most of the other new faces out there.
Who is going to be the Harvey Weinstein of pop? I bet Simon Cowell.
Woohoo that was one hell of a Freudian slip!!! LOL At least she keeps time with her movements and actions so there has been some coaching no doubt. If she writes at all then I give her kudos even if her lyrics and music is essentially bubble gum pseudo country pop at least she knows where her bread is buttered. It is easy to forget that some very talented performers can also be very talented writers, we will see if she matures and moves on eventually beyond the genre that has her stereo typed as a single generational "pop" artist.
I won't but many of her fans will see if she has enough talent to overcome her generational stereo type and does not wind up in 40 years doing her schtick for what will then be a Las Vegas geritol crowd, like so many other so called "song stylists" of the pop industry have done. If she has no talent then all she will have achieved is creating an audience who wants to here the same shit over and over again. But there are a great many of my generation who get high enough on geritol mixed with bourbon to pay to hear the same shit over and over again in Las Vegas so if she has the staying power then I am sure she will still be on stage because it is obvious that she is a performer.
This message was not sent from an iPhone because Peter Sellers really was a deviated prevert without a dime for the call
to remember swapping binaries over mIRC and the like? This is like that. It's a chat client and it looks like it lets you send binaries and folks were passing MP3s. What makes it odd is that the company making the app can ban channels. I would've thought it'd all be P2P.
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I thought she had gained some serious computer security cred?
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSec...
And she's already mentioned this very issue:
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSec...