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more from the RIAA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gif)
Fri Aug 4 17:01:14 2000
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 16:15:04 EDT
From: gif <gif@MIT.EDU>
>RIAA Demands End to Unauthorized Humming, Whistling
>
>By Andrew Marlatt
>August 03, 2000
>
>San Francisco, Calif. (SatireWire.com) After using the courts to keep
>Napster and MP3.com from freely distributing music over the Internet,
>the Recording Industry Association of America today asked a federal
>judge to stop people from humming or whistling copyrighted songs in public.
>The RIAA also asked for $300 million in damages from the estimated 22
>million drunken men who think banging out the opening drum beat to
>"Wipeout" is a good way to impress women in bars.
>
>"Anyone who publicly hums or whistles is disseminating
>copyright-protected music and thereby infringing on our artists'
>rights," said RIAA spokesman Janet Fogerty. "Also, we don't like it when the
>wind blows. It
>sounds too much like the beginning to Elton John's 'Funeral for a Friend.'"
>
>Free speech advocates were outraged over the RIAA's action, but women
>generally applauded. "Most of the guys I know can't drum 'Wipeout'
>when they're sober, let alone drunk," said Helen Kurtz, a 22-year-old
>from Manhattan.
>
-Erich
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