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Musicians protest military use of music as torture

Shewter said:
SDM bad, Black Metal GOOD.

Although the new stuff is getting pathetic... but such is the way of music. Eventually everything will be 100% doctored and the bands won't play live because they are unable to actually perform their own songs.

Mid 90's In Flames.

Late 80's Black Metal "Rise to fame"

:( sigh
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Who needs to play live when you have programs like Pro-Tools? A lot of the bands I've liked have stopped playing live because the complex arrangements on the albums are too difficult to recreate. I rarely make it to live shows anyway, though, so it doesn't really bother me too much.
 
American said:
I say turn up the volume.
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Just make them listen to freecreditreport.com radio commercials.
 
This is why I like waterboarding. Your entire torture experience is behind you in a matter of minutes and nobody needs to make you listen to awful music or put you in a cold room or not let you sleep.
 
WI Crippler said:
Just make them listen to freecreditreport.com radio commercials.
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Uncle!! Uncle!! I give up. What do you want to know?

Another idea would be to have Barney sing those commercials.... Maybe not. You can't get information from dead detainees. :mrgreen:
 
Well using music as torture seems to be more serius then that.

Music torture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

One other intersting aspect is what copyright should mean? In USA and more and more in the rest of the world is focused on just money. That the creator or the person the bought the right to a music should have the right to get all the money he can get. This also means that a lot of lobbying and also juridicial force is used to fight file sharing. But it's very little focus on other forms of artistic rights like for example that the creator have the right to stop certain use of his music. That should a creator have the right to stop the uses in harsh interogation methods, light torture or torture (depending on how music is used and it's combination with other methods):
 
Bergslagstroll said:
Well using music as torture seems to be more serius then that.

Music torture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

One other intersting aspect is what copyright should mean? In USA and more and more in the rest of the world is focused on just money. That the creator or the person the bought the right to a music should have the right to get all the money he can get. This also means that a lot of lobbying and also juridicial force is used to fight file sharing. But it's very little focus on other forms of artistic rights like for example that the creator have the right to stop certain use of his music. That should a creator have the right to stop the uses in harsh interogation methods, light torture or torture (depending on how music is used and it's combination with other methods):
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I'd be more than happy to sell the government my music for the use of torture. There's no such thing as bad promotion.
 
dclxvinoise said:
I'd be more than happy to sell the government my music for the use of torture. There's no such thing as bad promotion.
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If you think that's true, then try selling Death Metal to a group of Jehovah's Witnesses. :mrgreen:
 
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danarhea said:
If you think that's true, then try selling Death Metal to a group of Jehovah's Witnesses. :mrgreen:
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That's easy, just wrap it up in a Watchtower magazine and tell them that the magazine now comes in audio format, but it costs money now.
 
Did the US military steal this idea from A Clockwork Orange? Fighting ultraviolence with music? Not very original if you ask me. :lol:

JMak said:
Now we see quite clearly the problem with discussing "torture." Apparently we have idiots out that will classify simply annoying a detainee as the equivalent of torture.

How do you debate with such people? How can such a debate be waged with such sophmoric blather being involved?
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True...but just because some people will claim that music is torture doesn't justify REAL forms of torture such as waterboarding.
 
danarhea said:
Barney is definitely torture. I can't stand him. Play Barney music to me, and I will confess ANYTHING. Yes, I am whatever you say I am. I am a wanker. I am an asshole. I am a ham and cheese sandwich on rye. I confess. Just PLEASE turn off the Barney music.
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Screw physical harm, play Barney and I'd say anything to anyone. I'd even make things up just to turn it off.

That or balamory *shudders*
 
I'm not sure which would be more torturous:
24/7 rap or 24/7 Tejano.
 
TheRawStory said:
The U.S. military believes that musical torture is a non-violent way to create fear without resorting to physical violence, but musicians have created a petition demanding the practice be stopped.
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Please, where do I sign?! End the torture at my place of employment for once and for all. Corporate country at full blast in one department, classic rock at full volume from another. If I hear one more sorry-assed Carrie Underwood, Hank Jr, Aerosmith or Led Zeppelin tune, I'm going to puke up blood.

Regards,
DAR
 
Play the Village People on loop for a week. Everyone will be saying whatever you want, no need to be a macho man.
 
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