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The RIAA is off its rocker.

Check this little gem out.

The summary if you’re to lazy to click the link is that the RIAA (music industry) is suing a music download site in Russia who sells music for a few cents each song.  About $4 per CD give or take.  They’re suing them for… 1.65 TRILLION dollars.  Last I checked the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) for the ENTIRE country was about 750 BILLION dollars.  Now this is where it even gets better… this only includes the songs from June to October 2006.  They’re charging $150,000 per song.  If they had applied those numbers since the inception of AllofMp3.com which according to a quick whois lookup of the site name, is June of 2000… and we’ll say they sold 8m overall each month average, because at the beginning it would have sold slower and now it’s much faster… is roughly 78 months times 8 million downloads or 624 million total downloads… at a cost of $150,000 per song they’d owe the RIAA 93,600,000,000,000 dollars… yes 93 TRILLION, 600 BILLION… because they sold songs cheaper than apple… who sells each song for $0.99.  Just for comparison… the national debt of the united states is currently capped at 9 Trillion.  The gross domestic product of the ENTIRE WORLD combined is about 45 Trillion…

God, someone who does damages and math for this kinda shit needs flat out shot.  This is STUPID, punitive is one thing and understandable as a discouragement… this is mental.  Any judge who gets this case should toss it out for being to stupid to contemplate until they can come back with a reasonable number of some sort.

Anyways, enjoy figured everyone needed some light hearted stupidity for the holiday season!  Oh and AllofMp3.com is presently is giving a 20% holiday increase for any money you transfer in for downloads.  Merry Christmas!

Music, Politics, Shadus Ramblings, Technology, The Funny

… Mad World, the version I like best is from the movie Donnie Darko by Michael Andrews and not the original performed by Tears for Fears.

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

[chorus]
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying
Are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It’s a very, very…
Mad World

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what’s my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

[chorus]
Mad World…
Mad World…

Music, Shadus Ramblings

… i totally forgot about from the 80s. The lyrics are just hystorical.

Murray Head – One night in bangkok

(Company:)
One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can’t be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me

(The American:)
Bangkok, Oriental city
But the city don’t know what the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the chess world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner

Time flies, doesn’t seem a minute
since the Terelian’s bar had the chess boys in it
All change, don’t you know that when you
Play at this level in no ordinary venue

There’s Iceland, or the Philippines, or Hastings
Or….or this place!

(Company:)
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
The bars are temples but their pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you’re lucky, then the god’s a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

(The American:)
One town’s very like another
When your head’s down over your pieces, brother

(Company:)
It’s a drag, it’s a bore, it’s really such a pity
When you’re looking at the board
not looking at the city

(The American:)
Whattaya mean?!
You’ve seen one crowd in polluted stinking town…

(Company:)
Tea, girls, warm, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

(The American:)
Get Tai-ed, you’re talking to a tourist
Whose every move’s among the purest
I get my kicks ABOVE the waistline, sunshine!

(Company:)
One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can’t be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me

(The American:)
Siam’s going to be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a muddy ol’ river or reclining Buddha
Thank God I’m only watching the game, controlling it
I don’t see you guys rating
The kind of mate I’m contemplating
I let you’d watch, I would invite you
But the queens WE use would not excite you.
So, you better go back to your bars, your temples…
your “massage parlors”…

(Company:)
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
The bars are temples but their pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
A little flesh, a little history
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can’t be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me

The best line is – I get my kicks ABOVE the waistline, sunshine!

Music