Pirates tributes to Michael Jackson

Jeff Lynne

Jeff Lynne

Jeff Lynne

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It always makes me smile how, when a musician dies usenet posters flood groups with their music, as is currently happening with a particular newsgroup.

I can remember when one of the Bee Gee's passed away the same happened.

Tribute? It's more like adding insult to injury :rolleyes:
 
Why is it adding insult to injury?

The guy is dead no one should be making money off his back, Sorry but this is where copy write laws are so screwed up.
 
Mattey1 said:
Why is it adding insult to injury?

The guy is dead no one should be making money off his back, Sorry but this is where copy write laws are so screwed up.
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What? His estate will continue to make money. Your estate is basically the belongings of the deceased.
 
Jeff Lynne said:
It always makes me smile how, when a musician dies usenet posters flood groups with their music, as is currently happening with a particular newsgroup.

I can remember when one of the Bee Gee's passed away the same happened.

Tribute? It's more like adding insult to injury :rolleyes:
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real men would use the lossless group though.
 
Music isn't just about the money, and any true musician knows that. He might prefer it if everyone bought his albums, but surely it's more important that people are touched by and enjoy his music, regardless of whether they've paid for it or not?
 
reflux said:
Music isn't just about the money, and any true musician knows that. He might prefer it if everyone bought his albums, but surely it's more important that people are touched by and enjoy his music, regardless of whether they've paid for it or not?
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Thats exactly the kind of thing you'd expect to hear from a musician (not pop star) who has already made it and has £millions in the bank.

You're not likely to hear it from a busker on the London Underground though.
 
Mr-White said:
Radio 1 said earlier the top 10 albums on the apple store is MJ, only other one up there is kasabian

MW
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Yep 9 of the top 10 are MJ
Also has 48 songs in the top 100 and 19 of the top 20 videos.
Amazing!

If people did that while he was alive he might not have been in horrendous debt!
 
Kevin Clark said:
If people did that while he was alive he might not have been in horrendous debt!
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Perhaps if he didn't throw money at stupid things and looked after his money a little better towards the end he wouldn't be in massive debt, go read up about it, its nothing to do with he didn't get enough he just spent too much.
 
Jeff Lynne said:
It always makes me smile how, when a musician dies usenet posters flood groups with their music, as is currently happening with alt.binaries.mp3

I can remember when one of the Bee Gee's passed away the same happened.

Tribute? It's more like adding insult to injury :rolleyes:
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Its no worse than the sudden increase of MJ music listings on ebay. People hoping to make a bit of a profit on them.

Dave
 
Firestar_3x said:
Perhaps if he didn't throw money at stupid things and looked after his money a little better towards the end he wouldn't be in massive debt, go read up about it, its nothing to do with he didn't get enough he just spent too much.
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He had "a billionaire's spending habit with a millionaire's fortune", is a quote i've heard somewhere.
 
It sounds like a similar situation to Tyson, he had a boat load of money passing though his hands but the people the thought he could trust took advantage of him and spent loads of his money without knowing, bentleys etc all went missing without him knowing.
 
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