Concealed Carry music
p2pnet.net News:- I note with interest that the Music Publishers` Association wants to take guitar tablature sites offline.
It’s probably a move to set up the guitar manufacturers for inducing their customers to infringe on copyright. After all Gibson, Fender and the others have deeper pockets than any tab web site and most instruments sold play “known music,” not unknown music.
All musical instruments have non-infringing uses (songwriting, mindless strumming, etc), but it’s unlikely that the non-infringing uses outweigh infringing uses (playing someone else’s music without paying for it).
Close down the instrument stores, I say! Make sure all music teachers have the appropriate licenses for the music they’re teaching their students! And make sure they’re buying only legit sheet music from sources known and recognized by the NMPA, and MPA!
AND, force musical instrument owners to get a Concealed Carry license to ensure they’re qualified to carry and play an instrument in public, and are aware of the laws for failing to do so. (Venue must have ASCAP/BMI/SEASAC licenses, etc.)
When musical instruments are outlawed, only outlaws will have musical instruments.
Bill Evans – p2pnet
Also See:
offline – ‘Shut down guitar sites’, August 21, 2006
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August 22nd, 2006 at 3:54 pm
yeah – one day we’ll have to have a license to whistle a familiar melody.
August 22nd, 2006 at 5:16 pm
Once in while I find myself whistling the intro of Patience, by G.N.R., do I owe money to anybody for that? BTW, I didn’t need “how to” instructions to learn that song’d intro.
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:44 pm
We know what you whistled last summer.
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:03 pm
It appears that you have stored the tune in your brain (henceforth known as storage media) Therefore the RIAA and MPA will most likely request the erasure of the storage media, and $150,000 statutory damges per song you can remember.
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:11 pm
Weren’t they working on legislature .. not that long ago .. relating
to the analog hole that would REQUIRE certain professional
recording equipment with analog capabilities to be licensed ?
August 23rd, 2006 at 3:39 am
Oh, I can just see it now.
The days of my son telling me about the muggers, the robbers, the rapists, the killers they (police) caught will be over before long. Soon I will be told only stories that start with the anguished cry, “Officer! Officer!! That man stole my tune!!!”