From: Lucas Gonze (lucas@worldos.com)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 10:26:34 PST
Napster search returns 52 results on Danger Kitty, most of them for "Love Rocket",
but a few for "Schmutzler bar mitzva", "Take Me Over" and "Rat Race". I downloaded
all four and all were renamed versions of songs by real acts. I contributed to the
mess by renaming "Birthday Song" by the Three Stooges to "Dirty Chix" by Danger
Kitty.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Alan Bolcer [mailto:gbolcer@endtech.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 12:25 PM
> To: FoRK
> Subject: Dead Kennedys
>
>
> I guess I have to hide my DK mp3's now.[see below] The funniest
> commercial I've seen nowadays is the Discover Card's
> online financial management tools which features a 1983 band
> called Danger Kitty singing "Love Rockets". I think the
> song is entirely fictitious, so I was going to put up
> "Danger Kitty - Love Rockets (backward masked).mp3"
> onto Napster which would mock Ro by including a Paulesque saying
> in a Beatles voice. Ah, the pranks that I wish I had
> time to do. I bet that link would get sent around to
> at least a couple of million emails. Imagine it--Napster
> viral marketing spam.
>
> Greg
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/12/20/napster.nazi.idg/index.html
>
> Bertelsmann addresses Napster Nazi charges
>
> From...
>
>
>
> December 20, 2000
> Web posted at: 10:17 a.m. EST (1517 GMT)
>
> by Rick Perera
>
> (IDG) -- Just weeks after forming an
> alliance with Napster, German media
> giant Bertelsmann found itself answering
> charges from German law-enforcement
> authorities that the online music
> exchange enables the spread of
> right-wing extremist music.
>
> Bertelsmann and Napster said they "severely condemn any abuse" of the
> music-exchange platform. "The sharing of neo-Nazi ideas by Napster users to
> glorify violence is a violation of Napster's Terms of Use. Bertelsmann's
> E-Commerce Group (GmbH) will work closely with the criminal prosecution
> authorities to the best of its ability," Andreas Schmidt, chief executive
> officer of
> the newly-founded Bertelsmann subsidiary overseeing the Napster cooperation,
> said in a statement Tuesday.
>
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