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> Pirates playing Beethoven symphonies on their ships in Caribbean was a huge
> problem, though. Especially the use of ukuleles instead of violins did upset
Actually, there WAS piratism (as we know it today) in Beethoven's time,
too. Back in the dayz, you see, it just was the *sheet music* that was
illegally manufactured by underground printing presses, not records like
today (obviously). It was big biznes, the sheet music business, that is.
And actually, pretty much of the current copyright laws still approach
the problem from the viewpoint of sheet music written by composers and
played by completely separate orchestras. Think about it: you can record
or perform live any friggin' piece of music already composed if you play
it by yourself - obviously you have to pay the composer a little
something (unless he/she died over 70 years ago - freakily enough, you
have to pay him/her if he/she has been dead only, say 50 years..) but
he/she cannot *deny* you the right to record (or perform) his/her music.
But when you try to snatch a 0.1 second loop from a record already out
there, you'll be sued to death by lawyers - provided they ever find out
you used that sample somewhere, which isn't luckily very easy. =)
Where's the _f*cking_ logic here?
