Tue, 24 Feb 2004
Grey Tuesday
This site is grey today because it is respecting Grey Tuesday.
EMI are apparently sending legal nastygrams to participating
sites:
We are aware of the so-called "Grey Tuesday" event,
sponsored by
http://www.downhillbattle.org
and described on
the
http://www.greytuesday.org/
website as a "day of
coordinated civil disobedience" in which participating sites
will make the unlawful Grey Album available for downloading,
distribution, and file-sharing in order to force "reforms to
copyright law that can make sampling legal." Your site is
listed among those that will engage in this openly unlawful
conduct. Any unauthorized distribution, reproduction, public
performance, and/or other exploitation of The Grey Album will
constitute, among other things, common law copyright
infringement/misappropriation, unfair competition, and unjust
enrichment rendering you and anyone engaged with you in such
acts liable for all of the remedies provided by relevant laws.
These remedies include but are not limited to preliminary and
permanent injunctive relief as well as monetary and punitive
damages necessary to remedy your openly willful violation of
Capitol's rights.
I have two words for EMI's legal department: Fuck and
off.
And I have a suggestion for the rest of you: Boycott
Capitol Records and EMI until they come to their senses.
This can loosely be defined as: realizing that the audience
is not the enemy. I'm serious. If you buy their records, you
encourage their gangster-like tactics by demonstrating that
extortion works. The only language these guys understand is
money: so hit them where it hurts.
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