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Posted by Charlie Wilkes on September 14, 2006, 12:28 am
On 13 Sep 2006 20:39:40 -0700, "Chinese Water Torturer"
>HeyBub wrote:
>> Yeah, one of those licensing twits called me. Wanted $74/year for our
>> music-on-hold stuff.
>>
>> I put her on hold for about 30 seconds.
>>
>> "Recognize that?" I asked.
>> "No," she said.
>> "It's Mozart. Being played by the USSR Symphony Orchestra - a country that
>> no longer even exists. Tell me, just who would you be paying the royalties
>> too?"
>> "Forget it," she said and hung up.
>
>LOL
>
>The difference being, you're talking about snippets of public domain
>works over a telephone line.
>
>What SuperTroll has done is post his (horribly tracked and mixed)
>recordings of other people's songs on his website FOR TRANSMISSION OVER
>THE INTERNET, without even going to the small trouble of giving proper
>songwriting credit to the very-much-alive composers (and their
>respective publishing companies), nor (I assume) has he even
>*requested* the licenses, much less checked what the statutory rate
>fees are. His comments illustrate that he believes he doesn't HAVE to.
>He's just a retarded little flake who thinks he can do whatever he
>wants online, with no consequences.
>
>Welcome to the adult world, Barry. You should have stopped when you had
>the chance.
???
What fantasy is running through your mind? Do you think the lawyers
at record companies have as much useless time on their hands as you
do? They might email him and ask him to remove the music. Big deal.
Do you have any cats, BTW?
Charlie
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