I've got your illegal download right here.

[stellar]

Did anyone happen to watch The Grammy's long enough last night to catch that lecture and anti-downloading commercial by the RIAA?

I can't find a link to the commercial but it was hillarious. Basically there's a big party in a club with lights and funky music. Cut to a little girl downloading music on an unidentifiable download client. Cut to the club with funky music. Cut to the little girl who's just finished her download. Cut to club; lights go down; music stops; night ruined for everyone. Cut to "downloading is wrong" message.

What I want to know is how many times do I have to download Justin Timberlake songs in order for him to go away?

Oh, and RIAA... you're not going to make much headway if you send out your representative to make a plea to stop downloading if said representative is in a $12,000 tuxedo.

P.S., RIAA... I've got your illegal download right here.

[Darth Buddha]

The gaul of these folks.

Frell 'em. They're on their last leg.. I just hope they get pulled down and rowelled into dogmeat sooner rather than later.

[grinner]

Originally posted by Darth Buddha
The gaul of these folks.
So, they are Celts of French decent?

[stellar]

That would be "The Gaul...," not "The gaul...". Of all the people I expected not to recognize case-sensativity... I never thought it would be you.

[grinner]

Actually Buddha should have put 'Gall' cause that is what he means. 'To irk or exasperate; vex: It galled me to have to wait outside.'

[NebariNookiee]

On my way to work this morning I saw a "pissing Calvin" with "RIAA" getting the business end. My stomach still hurts from laughing.:D

[stellar]

Originally posted by grinner
Actually Buddha should have put 'Gall' cause that is what he means. 'To irk or exasperate; vex: It galled me to have to wait outside.'

Then shouldn't he have typed "gall" and not "Gall"?

[ipimen]

What I want to know is how many times do I have to download Justin Timberlake songs in order for him to go away?

if you find out, please tell me cause i hate his guts (and his singing of course).

Oh, and what a lame commercial, i didn't catch it, but by your description if would have made me LOL histerically

[fermicat]

An antidote? The musicians are getting involved....



Gabriel and Eno launch MUDDA
By Paul Clark


Electronic Music News -- Monday, January 26, 2004

Peter Gabriel, with the support of Brian Eno, today announced the launch of the Magnificent Union of Digitally Downloading Artists, or MUDDA for short, which hopes to raise the awareness of musicians who may not yet be fully aware of the internet's marketing potential.

The arrival of Magnificent Union of Digitally Downloading Artists comes at a time when the rules of the digital download game are just now being written. Record companies only recently agreed to work closely with their counterparts in the computer industry, to help slow the bleeding of their catalogs through peer to peer networks such as Kazaa and others, so MUDDA sees an opportunity to encourage musicians to make their own rules.

Gabriel, who is already heavily involved in the online music space as one of the co-founders of a digital downloading service called OD2, is currently offering 300,000 songs in various formats, as well as the download technology, to retailers such as Virgin, Tiscali and Wanadoo. These European online music retailers will soon be facing competition from Apple's iTunes Store, which is currently negotiating deals prior to a launch sometime in 2004.

That leaves a few months for MUDDA to raise awareness among musicians, many of which are no doubt resigned to the fact that the industry will be calling the shots.

"The digital environment will change the way music is made, and here artists need a voice", Peter Gabriel told the BBC during the MUDDA launch at the World Economic Forum in Davos, explaining that musicians are "good at making music and not necessarily good at marketing".


More info: http://www.mudda.org/

[JadedLegend3]

Joe? Is Joe here? I thought I heard Joe???



Jacqui :love:

[SweetpeaAeryn]

I like the new Pepsi commercial with one of the girls that got prosecuted for downloading music. That's a great one. It makes me smile every time it comes on. :)

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

:rollin: :rollin: :spin: :spew: :spew: :spew: :lol :signlol: :roflmao: :snicker: :highfive:

[Kurt_eh]

P.S., RIAA... I've got your illegal download right here.

Steller great post but you forgot the :frellyou: smilie! :D

[Darth Buddha]

GALL!

Thanks, grinner. I don't want to be exposed as a latent francophobe.

[SeasonOfDeath]

I would gladly pay the artist directly for the music and fark the RIAA.

[DRD2001]

Originally posted by stellar

I can't find a link to the commercial but it was hillarious. I feel the same way about those anti-cigarette commercials sponsored by the "TRUTH". Most of those leave me laughing.

[Digger]

Magnificent Union of Digitally Downloading Artists,or MUDDA for short So, will their theme song be:

Hello MUDDA
Hello FADDA
Here we are at
Camp Granada
Camp is very
Entertaining
And they say we'll have some fun it it stops raining.

[grinner]

Originally posted by Darth Buddha
GALL!

Thanks, grinner. I don't want to be exposed as a latent francophobe. No worries :aok:

[sny]

Originally posted by DRD2001
I feel the same way about those anti-cigarette commercials sponsored by the "TRUTH". Most of those leave me laughing.

I have to admit though, the Shards o' Glass Pops one was pretty clever and effective. They do stumble onto a gem now and again.

(The giant rats one was just ... just... well, it was giant rats!)

[stellar]

Yeah, that was good. Reminded me of the Bag-O-Glass bit with Dan Ackroyd when SNL was good.

[DRD2001]

You know what other commercials have me laughing, inappropriately. The "Don't Do Pot" commercials. They show people smoking pot and they keep repeating the scene with small variations until someone gets killed. The kid with the gun and the guys at the drive thru were 2 commercials that had me in stiches. I don't know why I find them funny. And no, I haven't been smoking anything either.

[waltersgirl]

DRD, i think because they were done so poorly. there's no empathy for the kid in the commercial because they frell it up so bad.

"The digital environment will change the way music is made, and here artists need a voice", Peter Gabriel told the BBC during the MUDDA launch at the World Economic Forum in Davos, explaining that musicians are "good at making music and not necessarily good at marketing".

you go Peter. any chance i can get to frell the record industry that frells the recording artists is a good day to me. :aok:

[BlackThorn]

One more for the home team. :D

[General]

Frell them all dead in their neck!!!

[ranger1]

RIAA is 'number 1' in my books... :D :finger: :finger: :D