Waxy has been threatened with a alwsuit by Walt Disney (which holds the rights to Queen's music and trademarks) for linking to a site where you can download the stunningly good Night and the Hip-Hopera, a staggering mashup of Queen's music with basically everything. These are the links that got Waxy threatened:
01 – Precession.mp3
02 – See.mp3
03 – Live.mp3
04 – Bite.mp3
05 – Jazz.mp3
06 – Rock.mp3
07 – Love.mp3
08 – Fight.mp3
09 – Fuck.mp3
10 – Play.mp3
11 – Ride.mp3
12 – Sniff.mp3
13 – Ridicule.mp3
14 – Plan.mp3
15 – Break.mp3
16 – Listen.mp3
17 – Work.mp3
18 – Come.mp3
19 – Expose.mp3
20 – Jerk.mp3
21 – Save.mp3
22 – Stop.mp3
23 – Question.mp3
Here's what Waxy has to say about it:
The irony is that I'm not even hosting the files anymore… The links on my site are all redirected to someone else's server, and have been for weeks. At any rate, I'll be forced to remove the direct links by November 23.
As far as I know, I was the first person to put the DJ Dangermouse's Grey Album on the Web. Now, I see the suppression of artistic freedom again with the Kleptones album, which has always been freely-distributable and never made a dime. It's depressing to think that our horribly broken copyright law means that nobody can legally hear this album or create others like it.
The cease-and-desist is below. The album itself can still be downloaded from the mirrors on the official Kleptones site, but I'm not sure for how long. If anyone has any ideas for creative protest, now's the time.
