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Copyright needs to die

In latest gaming news: Mafia was released on GOG! Yay! That's great news, because it means that you can get the game DRM-free and guaranteed to work with your Win7 or Win10 installation! (And it's a real classic.)

But wait! What's that? You're sitting in a car. Waiting for that famous tune everybody associates with Mafia. You don't know the title or the artist, but you immediately know that song. It plays on the radio. At least: it used to play on the radio. It's silent now. The radio is broken. No sound. Enjoy the view while driving...

The game released on GOG all right. Unfortunately due to copywrong it was released without it's original soundtrack. No licensed music. No Django Reinhardt playing Belleville (that's the song you were looking for ;)).

All this because copyshit still "protects" music (more like "extorts" people) after over 75 years! Yes, Belleville was first released in 1942. I mean I would get it if copyhell would be 20 years. Creators could fully exploit their works and make money off of it. But somehow, somewhere those greedy bastards had it their way and made copybad infinite. Usually it's not even the people who created the content (or their families, because the artist died long ago), who own the license, but Mafia-like (pun intended) organizations like the RIAA or BPI or GEMA.

This fucking needs to be changed!

And while you're playing that butchered masterpiece from GOG you can open YouTube in the background and listen to this:


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