mc hammer speaks out about sopa
 

I'd speak out too if my shit no longer sold.

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i clicked this then i realized you wrote MC Hammer...so i'm backing out now ;)

WARNING: Free-boy propaganda post.

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if they can't do anything to .com .net .or seems pointless anyway.

i suppose that the same argument you would use against justin bieber too.

Good point, we should listen to children who can't vote and will never finish high school.

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Wow, the freetards are getting desperate. They see their hopes and dreams ready to slip away. Might as well jump in front of a train now.

both mc hammer and Justin make way more money then you do with their copyrighted works

they have way more to lose from piracy and yet they both come out against it.

LMFAO...Hammer is washing cars at sunset and fairfax...You'd piss me off but you just too damn stupid.

And he also have huge debt,close to bankruptcy.

oh really

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/29/mc-...runch-disrupt/


he owns an upstart record label which focus on promoting artist using new technology.


he is easily bringing 2-3 million a year from his old songs just from the VC convention circuit.

and that doesn't include the money his is making from investments, and his side business.

i bet he his clearing way more per year then black monsters is with is

yet when old toupee wearing Donald Trump does it, they call it "business move"

lol

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seriously did you even read the date of the article

mc hammer now owns a tv production company (which produced his reality show and a shit load of stuff)

does 2-3 million dollars a year in personal appearances

and owns a record company which promotes dozens of rappers, singers and bands.

he is against it because his new venture is a search engine. hardly an unbiased participant.

when you the dalai lama involved let me know.

That doesn't change fact how he bankrupted.

and you think any of the pro sopa people are unbiased

http://searchenginewatch.com/article...Engine-WireDoo

it just one of his ventures

he actually on both sides of the equation

his record company suffers from piracy, his search engine benefits from an open web.

you can bet his copyright side is worth way more money to him right now yet he still came down against sopa.( especially since wiredoo is still in pre-beta draining money stage)

http://wiredoo.com/global/signup.html



he is probably the best example of an unbiased source of info, because he is on both sides of the equation.

He would want copyright protection for his record company/tv company, but at the same time want to make sure the law doesn't go so far that it would kill his search engine.

The fact that he comes out against sopa means it unbalanced.

unlike google (pro internet) or RIAA (pro copyright) who are by definition one sided, mc hammer is actually a balanced view point because he benefits from BOTH sides of the equation.

but it does prove your present tense declaration is total utter bullshit

many very wealthy people declared bankruptcy in the past

http://www.law-margulies.com/CM/Bank...yArticles3.asp

Lots of people go bankrupt and still are successful, later on. I'm sure you are aware of that.

Now, I'd be satisfied if he'd stop doing diss records (like the Jay-Z song).

But it still doesn't change fact how he bankrupted.

Hasn't he started some pyramid schemes now or something?

so you made the arguement we shouldn't listen to him because he was going bankrupt

when he actually rich enough to buy and sell you over 100 x easy.

what your point now that you have been proven to be a lying scumbag

that we should listen to him because he built himself up from zero (bankrupt) to 100x greater then you.

You cant touch this.


Someone had to post it.

please hammer, don't hurt em.

And what you're all forgetting is that MC Hammer owes his own succes to piracy. He used that Superfreak song from Rick James for "can't touch this". Did he ever write and create his own music or was sampling all he could do?

and you wonder why I don't want idiots who don't understand the difference between fair use sampling and infringement to have the power to blacklist sites.

It's the smooth rap lyrics that make it a hit.

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if it was fair use then how did rick james sue hammer and win eventually getting a co-composer title and receive royalties from the song?

I like hammer & his music :2 cents:

he didn't win it was settled out of court

The suit was settled out of court when Hammer agreed to credit James as co-composer



and if you know anything about the song

Stanley Burrell (MC HAMMER) wrote the lyrics

Alonzo Miller wrote the melody (music)


so that settlement was basically MC hammer keeping 100% of his royalties and Alonzo Miller Splitting his.

If you were MC hammer and you got to avoid all the legal expense of a trial you were entitled to win, and it cost you nothing to do it (and avoid all the bad press of "ripping off" a legend)

how stupid would you have to be to not settle.

"fair use sampling" lol. tell it to the judge. why so clueless about matters you are supposedly consulting people on? you are just going to get people sued with your shitty advice.

people settle because they know they will lose 95% of the time but keep on spinning.

bullshit if that were true the "pay up or else " scheme that AC LAW ran would never gotten off the ground.

thousands of people (including the estate of a dead person, and a blind person) paid up because it was cheaper to settle then to fight.

Two live crew suffered 2 years of bad press, even though the supreme court ultimately ruled in their favour.

btw

you lied by claiming that rick james sued and WON

and now your trying to spin that lie with this 95% bullshit.

and don't forget the 100s of companies right here who settled with Acacia

that patent was as valid as used toilet paper and yet hundreds of companies signed licencing deals for that craptastic patent.