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George Bush has Illegal music on his Ipod

torrentfreak.com — Bush likes to listen to the Beatles on his Ipod. However, there ’s no way Bush can have a legal copy on his Ipod according to the RIAA.

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lennypsy 2 years 100 days ago, made popular 2 years 100 days ago

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lennypsy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0see also: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/16/gw_bushs_ipod_contai.html

But that video didn't work for me
- DCUK, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Finally, proof that piracy is linked with terrorists :P
meltingrobot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24I like how ripping your purchased cd to play on another device is not legal. I mean that's just completely retarded.
- JoJoDilio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's legal if you want to put it on a cassette tape. :)
  That's "analog" technology for all you younger kids who don't remember life before CDs and MP3s.
  OH. It's even legal to SHARE that CD with a friend so that they can copy it onto a cassette tape as well.
  (sarcasm) you should be down on your knees thanking the RIAA for the rights that they DO give you! (end sarcasm)
anonymoustroll, on 10/12/2007, -12/+9> I like how ripping your purchased cd to play on another device is not legal.

The MPIA/RIAA talks straight out of their ass... if they had they're way, they'd have you paying royalties for that occassional song that gets stuck in your head. Hell, even the president of the united states ignores them... then again, the vice did just get away with shooting a lawyer (only in America!).
- tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16You know, if that was any other American, it would just be another hunting accident... you seem to be living up to your username. Good choice.
- longman2g, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4From everything I heard, it sounded like a complete accident. They lawyer lived, and I beleive he took fault for it.
- brianmost, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"The MPIA/RIAA talks straight out of their ass... if they had they're way, they'd have you paying royalties for that occassional song that gets stuck in your head."
  
  It's worse than that. The other day I was fiddling with my graphic equalizer and the busted down my door. Say the RIAA: When you EQ, you're stealing bass.
lennypsy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It is, but it's the RIAA, they are really into retarded stuff
shinaku, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13I have a new respect for your president after seeing his musical taste.
Cabal, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5wasn't there a story about this on the frontpage yesterday?
- fordistumley, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Yes.
Eddible, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3What the hell is the world coming to? The RIAA really have no idea. I don't understand why the labels aren't doing more to bring the RIAA down a notch, surely they're going to damage them in the end?
krism42, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Lame. Just because the RIAA claim ripping music from a CD is not fair use... means nothing.
myxyplik, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I don't like Bush, but if the RIAA starts going after even the likes of the President, there's going to be hell to pay.
- strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Sounds like a terroristic threat from the RIAA. Send them all to Gitmo.
clownguyx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Those Beatles songs are on his iPod as a matter of national security. The rules don't apply.
anonymoustroll, on 10/12/2007, -15/+5> You know...

I tell you what... go on a hunting trip with a lawyer, shoot him in the face and tell me what happens to you.

Personally, I'm proud of Dick for putting the bastards in their place on the great Karmic Order of Power continuium.
cutefcuk, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1learn to spell "iPod" not "Ipod" you hippie!!
- mpancha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I'd agree with you, except you started a sentence with a lower case letter. If its okay for you to have typed "learn" instead of "Learn", then its okay for someone to write 'ipod' instead of 'iPod'.
  
  anyways, dup story, lame the first time around, even lamer the second.
levyjl1988, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5this is another duplicated topic. Lame
- EmSixTeen, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Yeah. :/
- Eddible, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2My heart bleeds for you. Don't click the bloody link if you're just going to moan. Christ, you pair of losers.
clevershark, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This has to be the first time most of us would give a damn what the RIAA says...
Matt2k, on 10/12/2007, -3/+71) Story is a duplicate
2) Copying your CDs to your music player is fair use. RIAA even endorses this on their website.

So this story is doubly retarded.
- Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6You're ignoring the secret Digg formula for getting your story to the front page immediately!
  
  Negativity + Bush = instant front page story.
- ReinMasamuri, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3To rebut your second item. According to RIAA, software that rips music is illegal. So how they suggest you copy it to a portable player I have no idea.
Jacob, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Wow this was on the frontpage just yesterday and guess what it's still a lame article, ripping cd's is not illegal no matter what the RIAA says.
Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Yeah, this has already been on the front page. How does it get here?
beatdigga, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://digg.com/music/GW_Bush_s_iPod_contains_illegal_(according_to_RIAA)_music_
DrWho, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Bush doesn't know how to use a puter, so he did not rip them.

Monkey In Suit and his Ipod, whimsical.
1randomnumber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Dupa-dupe dupe!
jwolf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Reported as dupe:
http://digg.com/music/GW_Bush_s_iPod_contains_illegal_(according_to_RIAA)_music_

This was dugg to the front page with 2500 diggs, then buried.

14 hours ago.
cutefcuk, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Learn to spell "iPod" not "Ipod" you hippie!!!!!!!!!!!12 3.141592654
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Right, because it's a made up word and we care how it's capitalized?
- brianmost, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"Learn to spell"
  
  Right. About your user name...
drbroccoli, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I pay $15 for a CD and the RIAA tells me I don't even own it?
elrawtic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2ZOMG! Let's Impeach him!!!!1!!!11!!
sharph, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Who cares if Bush has illegal music on his ipod (don't we all?) Why not accuse him of somthing much more worthy, like starting a pointless war?
- ReinMasamuri, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Why do people keep saying things like "pointless war"?
  I'm sorry, Saddam did a HELL of alot worse than ANYTHING the USA is doing.
  And before you ask, yes. They _should_ take out the dictators of Iran and North Korea.
- cgp1024, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I totally agree with you, sharph. Why do people stress the small stuff and overlook the big stuff?
- brianmost, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have to agree about the poinlessness of this war. Bush warred on Iraq for shooting at our planes in violation of the treaty ending the former invasion, Saddam slaughtering innocent civillians, funding and sheltering terrorists, running several terrorist training camps within Iraq, to set up an optimal base for war against Iran, and because we thought Saddam had the WMDs he'd been telling his own generals he had.
  
  But in reality, while Iraq was shooting at our planes in violation of the treaty ending the former invasion, Saddam was slaughtering innocent civillians, funding and sheltering terrorists, running several terrorist training camps within Iraq, we set up an optimal base for war against Iran, and we scared Syria out of Lebanon, we have to face the fact that there were no stockpiles of WMDs.
- eyko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@ReinMasamuri
  
  are you a retard? taking out dictators is NOT the path to wellbeing for these countries. I agree that Iran and N.Korea are suffering from lack of freedom (or however we may define their situation), but the way to fix a problem is not knocking out dictators and imposing your own replacement dictator... seems like enlightened despotism to me, and it sucks. But I guess n.korea has no crude oil to fight for so they're stuck with their totalitarian regime for a long time for all the White House cares...
KYDS3K, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2per the RIAA:

What is your stand on MP3?

This is one of those urban myths like alligators in the toilet. MP3 is just a technology and the technology itself never did anything wrong! There are lots of legal MP3s from great artists on many, many online sites. The problem is that some people use MP3 to take one copy of an album and make that copy available on the Internet for hundreds of thousands of people. That's not fair. If you choose to take your own CDs and make copies for yourself on your computer or portable music player, that's great. It's your music and we want you to enjoy it at home, at work, in the car and on the jogging trail. But the fact that technology exists to enable unlimited Internet distribution of music copies doesn't make it right.

There you go.
- ReinMasamuri, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yup... kind of like what iTunes did to that one independant artist. Only iTunes charged for his songs and he never saw a penny of it.
  Who's the cook now?
ryanonroam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0A "fair use" exception applies to the U.S. Government. As with any other user, the use of copyrighted information by Government agencies and employees is assessed by the fair use factors to determine if the use is "fair" under 17 USC § 107.
bickitybam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Couldn't he have bought it from another online music store? My understanding was that only iTunes couldn't sell Beatles songs. Or would the exclusivity between iTunes and iPods prevent that?

I might be totally wrong, I don't have an iPod and I don't buy music online. I, um, wire money directly to the RIAA when I rip CDs. Yeah, that's the ticket.
mastertigurius, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Note; this may be slightly off-topic...

Hehehehe!!! Of course FoxNews were the ones covering this story!
"Let's see what Bush is doing today....oh! He's enjoying music! Whaddya know - Bush likes music! That means he's hip and cool, so you should really consider voting for him! We're broadcasting that he enjoys music - even if it has no news value at all! Coming up; worthless brown people bombed in Baghdad".
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Even if he doesn't need any more votes because he's already in the office (no third term at this point in time).
  
  Which leads me to an actual point: Why don't we have approval votes throughout the tenure of our officials? It seems pretty lame that one vote gives you 4 years with no checks from the people.
- ReinMasamuri, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That's what impeachment is for. If the people could do as you suggest, nobody would do ANYTHING controversial.
  Let's see, that would be:
  1) The Declaration of Independence (a write of war against Britian)
  2) The Emancipation Proclimation
  3) World War I and II would never have been seen through
  4) North and South Korea would now simply be Korea.
  etc etc etc...
  If you think election years are political, imagine if every year was a presidential election year. It's what it would be like if that were implimented
71M80, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1humm another story has been taken off the front page.... I wonder why..and i wonder if the digg moderators beleive in free speach?
- brianmost, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I hear what you're saying, George Noorey. It's The Man. Always putting us down with his duplicate story suppression.
jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0fair, balanced and unafraid... *cough* what a load...
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