There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. I don't want any of this lovers lament crap I want something peppy something happy something up-tem. I want something peppy, something up temple, I want something snappy. James Murphy of L. C. D. Sound System looks more like an auto mechanic than a rock star, but he's managed to get rock

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Chicago Tribune. We talked a musician and From W be Z Chicago and distributed by PRX. You're listening to sound opinions and now it's time for some music news That is Nora Jones with the song Chasing Pirates and that is exactly what the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been doing lately, Jim.

In the last few weeks they have shut down

over 80 websites for alleged copyright and trademark violations. They

primarily targeted websites that were allegedly selling counterfeit clothing, but there were also several music and entertainment website shut down.

Most prominently the On Smash.com site.

What was interesting about this is, A, there was no prior warning to these websites that they were being shut down that they were even doing anything illegal

In the case of these music websites there's a fine line between what is considered infringing activity and what is considered

artist and label promotion. In fact, a lot of times labels and artists would be providing

content for these websites to promote, even though technically it might have been

infringing. The Homeland Security Department didn't ask those kind of

questions. It just went right ahead and shut these sites down. The proprietors

of these websites should they be convicted

would face five to ten year prison sentences. So these are some pretty serious

consequences. And yet artists like Kanye West just recently endorsed this one site on Smash that was shut down.

So it really begs a question about whether the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is really doing its research into what exactly these

websites are doing or whether it's just blindly taking the word of the music industry and the

movie industry and moving in and shutting them down because they think they're committing these

infringing activities. Free falling.

Yeah, I'm free.

Free falling.

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