{"id":186391,"date":"2014-02-02T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/02\/capitalism-huh\/"},"modified":"2014-02-02T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T02:16:00","slug":"capitalism-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/02\/capitalism-huh\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalism, Huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 340px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CDKkRSUrTd8\" width=\"330\"><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/coErTyK.gif\" rel=\"lytebox[Skinny_Puppy]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/coErTyK.gif\" width=\"145\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MHBamwI.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[Skinny_Puppy]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MHBamwI.jpg\" width=\"145\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/YwaRecT.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[Skinny_Puppy]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/YwaRecT.jpg\" width=\"145\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/toJJQdg.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[Skinny_Puppy]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/toJJQdg.jpg\" width=\"145\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/339Hib7.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[Skinny_Puppy]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/339Hib7.jpg\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/zOy0a2A.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[Skinny_Puppy]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/zOy0a2A.jpg\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/4PuJHbM.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[Skinny_Puppy]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/4PuJHbM.jpg\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>click a picture for a slide show<\/i><\/div>\n<p>When <i>Metallica<\/i> discovered that their music was being used to torture inmates at Guantanamo, they send a cease and desist letter.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian electro-industrial band Skinny Puppy went a different route, and have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathandtaxesmag.com\/214271\/canadian-band-skinny-puppy-invoices-u-s-government-after-learning-their-music-was-used-to-torture-guantanamo-detainees\/\">sent an invoice demanding payment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">By now we\u2019re all familiar with the U.S. government\u2019s practice of using heavy metal to torture detainees. We\u2019ve all seen \u201cZero Dark Thirty\u201d and \u201cHomeland\u201d\u2014we get the drill. Usually metal music is used for its general unpleasantness. It\u2019s impossible to sleep through and just all-around unnerving.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Except Canadian band Skinny Puppy had no idea their music was being used in the service of the U.S. military.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/metal-band-skinny-puppy-send-us-government-invoice-after-finding-out-their-music-was-used-as-torture-device-in-guantanamo-bay-9100005.html\">The Independent<\/a>  points out Friday that when Metallica learned their music was being  used as a torture device at Guantanamo they sent the the government a  cease and desist. Skinny Puppy, on the other hand, went the other way  and just sent an invoice.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe heard that our music was used on at  least four occasions,\u201d Evin Key said. \u201cSo we thought it would be a good  idea to make an invoice to the U.S. government for musical services.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Asked  how he felt about his music being used to torture people, he said, \u201cNot  too good. We never supported those types of scenarios. Because we make  unsettling music, we can see it being used in a weird way. But it  doesn\u2019t sit right with us.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t sit right with anyone who values the idea of rule of law and civil rights, Evin.<\/p>\n<p>I would remind you thought that the statutory damages for such a use, it is clearly a public performance, are on the order of $150,000 per infraction.<\/p>\n<p>It might be more worth your while to sue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click a picture for a slide show When Metallica discovered that their music was being used to torture inmates at Guantanamo, they send a cease and desist letter. Canadian electro-industrial band Skinny Puppy went a different route, and have sent an invoice demanding payment: By now we\u2019re all familiar with the U.S. government\u2019s practice of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,971,1134,1032,1109,1137,1168,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-civil-rights","category-copyright","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-ip","category-music","category-torture","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}