Big Pudge
09-29-2002, 08:08 PM
got this from IMDB.com
Britney, Madonna and Eminem Unite To Fight Pirates
Britney Spears, Eminem and Madonna are uniting with a host of top chart stars to campaign against illegal downloading of music from the internet. The trio, along with Missy Elliott, Elton John, Sting, Phil Collins, Luciano Pavarotti, Brian Wilson, Shakira, Mary J Blige, Sheryl Crow and other major recording artists and songwriters, will star in TV commercials warning people about the evils of online piracy. Hilary Rosen, chief executive officer of Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA), a trade group for the music industry, says, "We want to hit fans with the message that downloading music illegally is, as Britney Spears explains in one of the spots, the same thing as going into a CD store and stealing the CD. Too many people don't realize that when you download a song you like from a peer-to-peer network or some other unauthorized internet source, what you're doing is stealing music." The campaign came about after an alliance of several recording, publishing, musician trade groups known as Music United For Strong Internet Copyright (MUSIC) Coalition.
this kinda pisses me off, all these artists wont get their heads bitten off the way METALLICA did when they started the fight against illigal downloading. so every1 hated metallica for standing up against the stuff, but when these artists do it, every1 is like "oh well they have a point"! the only reason ppl hated metallica after this is because they werent fans of theirs b4 hand, SO it was easy for them to say "FUCK METALLICA". but now that some of their favorite artists are gettin in on it, its like "ohhh i get it now"!
METALLICA 4 LIFE!!
Britney, Madonna and Eminem Unite To Fight Pirates
Britney Spears, Eminem and Madonna are uniting with a host of top chart stars to campaign against illegal downloading of music from the internet. The trio, along with Missy Elliott, Elton John, Sting, Phil Collins, Luciano Pavarotti, Brian Wilson, Shakira, Mary J Blige, Sheryl Crow and other major recording artists and songwriters, will star in TV commercials warning people about the evils of online piracy. Hilary Rosen, chief executive officer of Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA), a trade group for the music industry, says, "We want to hit fans with the message that downloading music illegally is, as Britney Spears explains in one of the spots, the same thing as going into a CD store and stealing the CD. Too many people don't realize that when you download a song you like from a peer-to-peer network or some other unauthorized internet source, what you're doing is stealing music." The campaign came about after an alliance of several recording, publishing, musician trade groups known as Music United For Strong Internet Copyright (MUSIC) Coalition.
this kinda pisses me off, all these artists wont get their heads bitten off the way METALLICA did when they started the fight against illigal downloading. so every1 hated metallica for standing up against the stuff, but when these artists do it, every1 is like "oh well they have a point"! the only reason ppl hated metallica after this is because they werent fans of theirs b4 hand, SO it was easy for them to say "FUCK METALLICA". but now that some of their favorite artists are gettin in on it, its like "ohhh i get it now"!
METALLICA 4 LIFE!!