when it turns against us... it is bad!

Just watching a movie... Drum Line typical script... some nice drum solos.

Anyway, the protagonist is at a low point, not having learned to read music... he was kicked off the band after provoking a fight with another band at homecoming. Blah blah blah... So he receives a package in the mail. His dear father (with whom he has a somewhat typically strained relationship) breaks the most heinous of laws in all the land (keep in mind this is a major studio driven motion picture). He send his son a package containing STOLEN MUSIC.

The audacity of this criminal mastermind. He premeditatedly (is this a word!?) went to a STORE and bought BLANK audio tapes. These tapes were CLEARLY sold for the purpose of recording ones child's first words, a teenage garage band's first jam or other similarly precious moments. However, this MADMAN figured out a way to use these innocent devices in combination with his (purportedly) legally purchased, commercial audio recordings. No doubt he rigged some illegal contraption to transfer the artist's property from the legally acceptable media onto these tapes.

He then ACCURATELY labeled them, not even trying to cover up his crime.

isn't this enough!!! no, he then proceeded to abuse the Postal service by mailing this contraband to his son.

How can the government sit idly by while this travesty is allowed to occur.

How can people of good conscious sleep at night knowing that this sort of thing is going on at our colleges???

BTW: the old jazz tapes reinvigorated the kids waning interest in his studies, and he became the hero he was destined to be. And he started to see his father as a human being ;o) awhhhhhhhh

F the RIAA, serioulsy!!!

I ain't saying music should be stolen... but something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
When the LAW and TECHNOLOGY are used to protect those with money and power from those without it.
Don't believe the hype, a few token ROCK STARS does not a starving artist make. There are STILL revenue streams for people who want to make music for a living.

Every bubble must burst


p.s. it is a good thing Disney hasn't made a movie about Hamlet or I'd be sued for quoting that line.