Now the MPA wants to jail people for online lyric sharing...

[Catch23]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4508158.stm
MPA-Look that little girl is singing the lyrics to "Hit me Baby One More Time", Lets sue her.

[RadioactiveMan]

Since when do they make money off of lyrics? What are they losing when people share the scores?

[The mOBSCENE]

Originally Posted by RadioactiveMan

Since when do they make money off of lyrics? What are they losing when people share the scores?

Companies sell scores called "sheet music" in music stores and what not and make money from there.

[Big Red 11]

This is ridiculous. The music industry blooms because young people do not have to pay to experience good music. Once they kill that the industry will die.

[Angus]

Yeah and they want to stop online guitar tabs too.

[Godmoney]

This is the most retarded thing I have ever seen concerning music. What the **** is wrong with the MPA? So, when my kids are growing up within the next 15 years, they won't even be able to learn some lyrics online or learn a damn guitar tab? What the ****? Dude seriously, **** the MPA.

[-MicroTech]

MPA are a bunch of Most lyrics site have viruses on them. And soon it will illegal to listen and write down thw words. or even let a friends listen to ur Cd player.

Lets sure her

You mean Sue*

[Swiss Miss]

This is just the old rich white man's attempt to fight technology.

"It is easier to blame someone than to take the time to understand them."

Laws like this have been increasingly prevalent now that we are in an age of technological boom. So many laws have already been challenged and changed and others updated to fit these times... some for the good of society, others to the detriment. While I totally disagree with such a lame attempt by them to control such a puerile aspect of the music production industry, I actually applaude the oddacity of it. Laws should always be challenged and protected; especially when it concerns the intellectual property and copyrights and control of their industry that they are by all means entitled to. These people make their living off of this stuff that has been produced in this "non-tech" fashion for years now. We can't really blame them for protecting their livelyhood, can we?

Granted, I'm simply playing devil's advocate here... if they were really concerned with it from a marketing standpoint, they should have invested the money they've put toward a lawsuit to moving their production from sheet music and lyrics to a better suited and more profitable online structure instead... and because of their lack of innovation, they deserve to lose business.

Ultimately I think they are just fighting for the principle of the matter now (which is an important one and certainly one that should not be overlooked!) since they've pretty much lost all chance of regaining their "industry".


Of course lawyers and legal wh0res like myself love this sh!t...

Originally Posted by -MicroTech

MPA are a bunch of Twisted Evil Most lyrics site have viruses on them. And soon it will illegal to listen and write down thw words. or even let a friends listen to your Cd player.

You mean Sue*

You mean

Originally Posted by -MicroTech

The MPA are a bunch of Twisted Evil. Most lyric sites have viruses on them, and soon it will be illegal to listen and write down the words or even let a friends listen to your Cd player.

*
... At least that's what I THINK you meant...

[Z3CH]

Originally Posted by Angus

Yeah and they want to stop online guitar tabs too.

Guitar tabs aren't from the bands though, they are made from people that listen to the music. They can't stop that.

[Caprice]

1/2 of America goes to jail............