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MUSIC INDUSTRY SKULL DUGGERY: JIMMY IOVINE, EMINEM, SKEPTA AND DMCA (DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT) ABUSE

July 20, 2011

Last week I posted the news that UK artist Skepta’s new single Dare To Dream had been removed from YouTube and passed on to golden boy Eminem by Interscope Records founder Jimmy Iovine (Click HERE to read all about it). And since then it’s been revealed just how this all went down. Website Torrent Freak writes, After “Dare to Dream” was put up on YouTube one of its early listeners was Jimmy Iovine, founder of Interscope records. Recognizing quality, Iovine had plans […]

MAD NEWS: BACK IN ACTION!

June 28, 2008

Hi Everyone Some of you may have noticed that there hasn’t been any new Mad News posts since Thursday evening – well that is, up until now….  I was temporarily restricted from blogging new content, thanks to the RIAA (The Recording Industry Association of America) and the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). They got word of my posts featuring new/currently unreleased singles from R.Kelly and rapper Common, informed WordPress and my function which enables me to post new content was disabled. Anyway to cut a long story short, I have now removed the ‘offending’ posts and I am […]