Posted on 07/29/2008 10:43:43 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
American Military Could Owe Royalties for Music Used as Torture Device Shane McGlaun (Blog) - July 29, 2008 1:30 PM
The Barney Theme Song is one of the tracks on the supposed torture play list
Most people can think of a few songs that simply drive them crazy. The U.S. military is reported to use music as a method of torture against prisoners in the Guantánamo Bay prison. The point of the music, according to the Guardian, is to induce sleep deprivation and drown out screams.
The Guardian has also posted a list of songs it says are used by the U.S. military as torture devices. The list includes songs like Enter Sandman by Metallica, Bodies by Drowning Pool, White America by Eminem, and the Barney Theme Song.
One song is specifically singled out by the Guardian as being used in the so called "torture playlist."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytech.com ...
I’ll talk!
Fair use.
99 bottles of beer on the wall...
(Or 99 Lufte Balloons...)
Yeah, I guess this is really going to hurt the album sales to the few hundred terrorists we have in captivity at this time.
I know Middle-Eastern terrorists are big fans of the genre.
The Guardian, looking out for terrorist’s rights since...
>The track is called Babylon by U.K. artist David Gray. Howard Knopf, a Canadian lawyer specializing in intellectual property, says that the U.S. military may owe Gray royalties for playing his music in a public space.<
When did Gitmo become “public space”?
So the big purple gets to pocket some big green profits from the ‘torture’ of the club gitmo muzzies?
Ain’t capitalism great?
Radical newspaper trying to stir up trouble for the good guys.
Fer cryin’ out loud, don’t give the RIAA any ideas.
I’m spechless.
Frankly, this list is just cruel.
1. Fuck Your God - Deicide (That'll piss them off)
2. Die MF Die - Dope (personally offensive. OK by me.)
3. Take Your Best Shot - Dope (eh)
4. White America - Eminem (mockin the US?) 5. Kim - Eminem (horrible song. good torture)
6. Barney Theme Song - Barney the Dinosaur (That is so wrong.)
7. Bodies - Drowning Pool
8. Enter Sandman - Metallica
9. Meow Mix TV Commercial - Meow Meow Meow (I'd break, fast)
10. Sesame Street TV Theme
This might be a good thing. It’s the kind of thing that would make a few Congressman so angry that they would try to change the copyright laws to get back at the music industry, which has become far too aggressive in prosecuting people who use their music.
I heard that the ultimate torture at Gitmo after the glazed chicken with green beans and almonds was the “Comfy Chair”.
Who knew I had this way to alleviate my torture.
Don’t taxpayers get ANYTHING for their investment in PBS?
So, did Janet Reno have to pay royalties to Nancy Sinatra for using her “These Boots Are Made For Walking” in Waco to try and force the Branch Davidians out (before she sent in the ‘big guns’)???
This can all be solved very quickly by playing the soundtrack to Yentl.
I thought this was series and hugh!
“Muskrat Love” and they’d have me telling everything I knew.
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