Sony shuts down Beatallica website
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- KVRist
- 136 posts since 1 Aug, 2001 from Florida, USA
This band has done some really brilliant parody work doing Beatles songs in Metallica style. Sony just recently sent a cease and desist order to their website's ISP and it was shut down. What remains is a statement with further explanation, and a link to an online petition to save the site :
http://www.beatallica.com
I just had to post about this - Sony is using its muscle to shut down what should be protected as parody. They were not selling anything, and even Metallica liked what Beatallica were doing and have voiced their support for the band.
This sucks.
Cheers,
Brian
http://www.beatallica.com
I just had to post about this - Sony is using its muscle to shut down what should be protected as parody. They were not selling anything, and even Metallica liked what Beatallica were doing and have voiced their support for the band.
This sucks.
Cheers,
Brian
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- KVRAF
- 3528 posts since 18 Apr, 2002 from British Columbia, Canada
thanx.
signed.
blows me away... "substantial and irreparable injury"...
how? FFS
, that pisses me off.
signed.
blows me away... "substantial and irreparable injury"...
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- Banned
- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
i guess there are cows and then there are sacred cows that are all mighty and harrrd.
shame.. idea for slayer/donovan vice-versas, this'd be real close..
shame.. idea for slayer/donovan vice-versas, this'd be real close..
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- KVRist
- 88 posts since 16 Sep, 2003 from Austin, Texas
Cowardly damn ISP...I wonder if they have the right to shut down their client's website based on complaints and legal threats. A cease and desist letter certainly is not the same as a court order.
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- KVRist
- 62 posts since 3 Jan, 2004
Yeah I read about this the other day.
Fuckin' record company scum wrecking everybody's fun.
Too bad, I really enjoyed Beatallica.
A famous quote:
"Does anyone remember laughter?...........
Uhhh....push!" - Robert Plant - The Song Remains the Same.

Fuckin' record company scum wrecking everybody's fun.
Too bad, I really enjoyed Beatallica.
A famous quote:
"Does anyone remember laughter?...........
Uhhh....push!" - Robert Plant - The Song Remains the Same.

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- KVRian
- 1119 posts since 29 Jun, 2004 from within you without you
They are classic. How dare those slimeballs shut that site down.
Signing.
Signing.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 136 posts since 1 Aug, 2001 from Florida, USA
I might also add that I was seriously considering buying Sound Forge 8 when it is released, but I think I'll look elsewhere now since it's a Sony product. 
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- KVRist
- 180 posts since 7 Oct, 2004 from NL
Signed 
Jaap
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- KVRAF
- 3161 posts since 22 Dec, 2004
5219 sigs after I signed.
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- KVRAF
- 13444 posts since 14 Nov, 2000 from Hannover / Germany
Signed too.
f**kers!
f**kers!
There are 3 kinds of people:
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
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- KVRAF
- 2135 posts since 12 Jul, 2004 from Brave New World
count me in.
"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." -Carl Zwanzig
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- KVRian
- 693 posts since 21 Oct, 2003 from Madrid
Like I posted in my signing.
Some people just have no sense of humour!
Germ
Some people just have no sense of humour!
Germ
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- KVRist
- 223 posts since 16 Aug, 2004 from Essential
That really sux. The page is completely down now.
Well now I can at least go download all the Sony warez I can get my hands on. They have no resect for others then I have no respect for them. Ups to Metallica for being supportive. f**k Paul and Ringo for not!
Well now I can at least go download all the Sony warez I can get my hands on. They have no resect for others then I have no respect for them. Ups to Metallica for being supportive. f**k Paul and Ringo for not!