Eminem vs Mp3 Users

It seems that music rebel Eminem is a little upset towards the internet community and especially those of the music piracy business.

His new album, "Eminem Show", suppose to be due out early June, yet, due to the file sharing on the internet, his album is to be released late May.

It seems that the entire album is available to download on the net.

His label and himself face losing countless millions due to this.....

To read up on it, go here

It's a pitty that Eminem has finished all his courts cases and lawsuits, only to notice that a shortage of income is in the mists.....

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EMINEM is threatening to "beat the ****" out of fans who have illegally uploaded his music onto the Internet.

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Looks like he won't be out of court long :D

The radio stations in Detroit have already played the entire album on the air a couple of different times.

The funny thing is his first release song. It talks about how he is back because the music business is "empty" without all his controversy. Guess he is getting that started again right away.

Wasn't "Metallica" one of the first bands to speak out about this? They sued Napster, I believe. And they had that special announcement thing on the MTV Awards on how Napster sucks, as does everybody who uses it. Recently I bought an album that doesn't work on computers, which is probably a pretty good idea for all those people who are annoyed that all their songs are being shared.

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Originally posted here by jethro
Wasn't "Metallica" one of the first bands to speak out about this? They sued Napster, I believe. And they had that special announcement thing on the MTV Awards on how Napster sucks, as does everybody who uses it. Recently I bought an album that doesn't work on computers, which is probably a pretty good idea for all those people who are annoyed that all their songs are being shared.

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Come to think of it.. Here's a story i read yesterday about defeating that so-called security that wont allow you to paly the CD on computers... The security works by filling the beginning of the CD with garbage data, since CD-ROM drives are programmed to read data first, it comes up and says that the disc is unreadable. Therefore by following the advice in this story, take a black magic marker and mark the outside of the disc thereby defeating the security on it.

Here's a link :)

http://www.msnbc.com/news/754854.asp?0dm=C17MT

Oooh, cool!

Eminem, poor baby, down too his last couple of mil. **** that spoiled, self serving *******.

squanders his money, screws up, has to pay a fortune to lawers and gets mad at the internet community because he dosn't have all the money he thinks he deserves.

Back to the CD thing... My roomate was telling me how the new CD that wont play on computers auctually mess up the firmware on Macs. You cant eject the cd and you have to send the computer to apple unless you know how to reinstall the firmware. Its kinda messed up... Shouldnt that be illegal or something. Poor macs they take soo much crap

Yeah, the company that started making those CD's is getting sued also. The people that own the patent on the name CD and on actual CD media are talking about suing them because they are not really CD's.

I have had his new cd for 3 months now...... *It Sucks*


System_0verload

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EMINEM is threatening to "beat the ****" out of fans who have illegally uploaded his music onto the Internet.

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No problem there his music sucks.

Guess he didn’t learn any thing from the whole metallica fiasco. You can’t take on your fans and win.

If artists are so worried about the people getting it on the internet and all, then why on Earth do they release "advanced copies" of their cds??? I just don't get it. If you don't want people listening to it, then release it to EVERYONE, including radio stations, on the same day. No breaches in the declaration, just release it all at once, then no one can complain and no one could lose money in the first place.

did u ppl know that (smaller) bands realy sell MORE CD's becouse of this whole P2P ****..

their stuff goes around, and if u like it enough you'd like 2 buy the CD (that's what I do)

It's just the big (established) bands that are over their HYPEs (like Metalica and nowadays Eminem) that r complaining, they suck, and so does their music, and once u have listened 2 it nobody wants 2 buy the real thing..

if ur music is good enough ppl WILL buy, if not... it will just be d/l'd

I don't care how much security any cd company puts on their cd's. If the music plays out to speakers from a stereo it can be copied. Maybe not with the same quality, but if the signal gets sent out to a speaker, it can be copied. End of story.

As much as Eminem pisses off people with his inflammatory remarks, he should be thankful anybody listens to his music -- regardless how they get it.

Eminem is being a little baby...

Like someone above said, don't want your stuff on the net, release everything at the same time....

Take for instance Iceberg.com They have countless radio stations on with clear feeds. All you need is a recording proggy to take the feed and compress it to a media file....

Same with people and radio cards in pcs...

Like someone wrote

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If there's a will, there's a way

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Side note:

The whole CD protection against rippers thing, some companies are trying to release music cd's in DVD format disks instead, since many pc's have yet gotten a DVD drive....

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Originally posted here by tyger_claw
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The whole CD protection against rippers thing, some companies are trying to release music cd's in DVD format disks instead, since many pc's have yet gotten a DVD drive....

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Even less people have CD players that can read a DVD.

but not many....

in any case, it's not like the mainstream of DVD drives is going to stop....

people are buying DVD drives now since it reads both and a DVD can store much more media....
Just look at the PS2 and Xbox, both running DVD

Hey all,

Just saw a commercial for the new Eminem cd release....

Dumb as hell....

They have a fat guy in back of a industrial building selling bootleg cd's from the "truck" of his van......
The cd's are all Eminem, and people are driving up to buy some, until a car full of black guys drive up and go to beat the guy up as he offers them some cd's....

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Yo man, those things are ill.... bootlegs, man...

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Whatever....
At the bottom of the screen, it sais the release date is moved to the 28 of may and that if you purchase his new cd on the 28th, you get a free special DVD... ! whoopie! :P

Pathetic or what...
hmm.... free cd, no dvd - purchase cd, free dvd.... - free cd, free dvd (kazaa!)
a few people will get suckered, the others will wait for someone to put it available on either kazaa or IRC

one of my local radio stations (WMRQ, Radio 104) also played the whole thing this week. they said something to the effect of "this wasnt suposed to get played till next tuesday, but we figured what the hell, it's all over the net anyway". now, first off i would have never even known there was a new Eminem cd comming out if they didnt play it, and even when i heard there was i wouldnt buy it based on the one or two singles released. i happened to really like a quite a few of the tracks, so now i'm gonna pick it up on tuesday(can you say "sales++"?)

take this in contrast with annother local station that was playing tracks off of the new Rage/Chris Cornell CD. they got a letter saying to stop playing the music because it was going to hurt sales or some crap. i didnt happen to be listening when they played any of the music and now i dont expect to buy it. had they not sent the letter, i may have gotten a chance to hear a track or two and make the decision of if i liked it enough to buy it(and here we have a case of "sales-=1").

look at the two cases we have here, 1 cd gets bootleged and played early causing me to plan on buying it on its release date(which will help it climb the charts), where annother gets played and shut down before i get to hear it causing me to plan on NOT buying it AT ALL(at most i may copy it from my school's radio station which i work at). which model do YOU think works better...

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php...00-06-26&res=l

that idiot needs to shut up as well as every other "artist" who wines and complains about getting to write rhymes that a 3rd grader could think of and then chill in there 4million dollar cribs, while others get up 6days a week and bust there asses on 10 hour shifts. he needs a beat down.