Eminem's Publisher Sues Apple for Unauthorized Music Sales

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I don't like having my posts deleted. Don't do that.

 

[3282872]

Love this!

Over at "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" forum ( http://fakesteve.blogspot.com ), this was posted:

Vanilla Ice imitator Eminem is suing us over downloads. Or something. See here. My lawyers looked at the complaint and said it's all written in fake ghetto slang and rhymes. But when they translated it into English it said: "Dear Mr. Jobs, My career is over and nobody pays attention to me anymore, but I'm hoping this publicity stunt will spark some interest in me again. Thank you."

My lawyers say we'll just drag it out for a while and mess with his head. Personally I'd like to send Moshe Hishkill and a couple of his guys out to Detroit and have them track down this punk and put a cap in his ass. We'll see.

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LMAO SOOOOOO perfect.

You guys should check out "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs", some funny s*#t, and there's a matching "The Secret Diary of Jonathan Ive"...

 

[Draelius]

Wurd.

Sounds like most of these people are suckling Jobs' nipple and know nothing about copyrights, legal obligations of their defense, or the music industry in general - so they say Eminem's a loser, a whiner, a crack user, a whatever and that's the extent of their "intellectual property". WAHHH!!!! (slurp)

But the milk tastes so good!

 

[JobsRules]

Eminem may write SOME of his lyrics, everything else is sampled/ stolen. It's not an overstatement either, this one guy I worked with showed me all these old songs from the 80's/ 90's that Eminem completely ripped off. Let me put it this way, it is often as blatant as Vanilla Ice's famous case. Well then again, this is the same for 99% of hip hop. Kanye West does the same, Snoop Dogg, not Dr. Dre though. Also Scott Storch writes almost everything himself. I wouldn't say these artists who steal have no talent, but they should at least give the artist they stole it from a cut of the money.

Er, sometimes they go get a cut of the money, or have to pay a one off fee to clear certain samples.

In the early days in particular hip-hop generated ways of using the emerging affordable samplers that no one had thought of before. Lifting a sample from a record, combining it with other beats and elements and making it all fit was quite a big skill back in the day of Akai S1000s - far more difficult than some alt-rockers limply strumming E5-shape chords up and down a fret board while moaning some drivel about being miserable. It's not a trivial task now to do well, even with software samplers, ReCycle and decent time stretching tools.

Nowadays some of that underground skill has been lost and, yes, there is loads of glossed-up hip-hop with some talentless millionaire mumbling nonsense over the same one looped bar while a gyrating booty-shaker ocasionally chips in with a few lines of r'n'b. It's another symptom of the got-no-talent-but-wanna-be-rich-and-famous-instantly plague that's part of the celebrity cess-pit culture that's taking over the planet.

 

[3282872]

Wurd.

Sounds like most of these people are suckling Jobs' nipple and know nothing about copyrights, legal obligations of their defense, or the music industry in general - so they say Eminem's a loser, a whiner, a crack user, a whatever and that's the extent of their "intellectual property". WAHHH!!!! (slurp)

Oh please, let me call you a Waaaaaaaabulance . You're on a Mac/Apple fan site after all, what do you expect.

 

[studiomusic]

Lifting a sample from a record, combining it with other beats and elements and making it all fit was quite a big skill back in the day of Akai S1000s -

S1000s? I started out with the S900... now THAT was a sampler! 12 bits, almost zero memory and a slow floppy... sweet memories indeed!

 

[GfPQqmcRKUvP]

CDJ: Do you not get that eminem's career is not over? I mean, I thought that was explained to you well enough. The guy sells millions of copies every CD, most artists would give anything to do that...

 

[Rocketman]

I don't like having my posts deleted. Don't do that.

Me too. But I am not delusional enough to think they will not delete posts at will. Several of the other sites I go to using this particular site software save deleted posts to a pool where people can see first hand what was deleted so they can get a sense of why. I cannot see where this site does that.

Rocketman

 

[3282872]

CDJ: Do you not get that eminem's career is not over? I mean, I thought that was explained to you well enough. The guy sells millions of copies every CD, most artists would give anything to do that...

lol Sorry, are you talking to me? Or the countless other Macrumors members who have made the same (joking) comment? Get over it, I couldn't care less anout M&M or Enima or whatever his name is, it's a J O K E .