HahahahahahacalltheACLU.

Also, the RIAA would be fascinated to hear about the presumably unlicensed public performance of one of their artists, and would love to sue for many times the thousand bucks that was raised for charity.

So, how much do they owe Bieber (through ASCAP) for using the work?

My high school pulled the same thing with the Spice Girls' Wannabe.

Yesssssss

epoc_tnac: Also, the RIAA would be fascinated to hear about the presumably unlicensed public performance of one of their artists, and would love to sue for many times the thousand bucks that was raised for charity.

Sadly, I have no doubt there's an RIAA lawyer looking in to this.

That said, hilarious idea.

epoc_tnac: Also, the RIAA would be fascinated to hear about the presumably unlicensed public performance of one of their artists, and would love to sue for many times the thousand bucks that was raised for charity.

My thoughts exactly. Want the school to stop playing the song? Drop a dime on them to the RIAA.

Isn't torture a crime against humanity?

"And I was like baby, baby, baby, oh.

Like baby, baby, baby, no.

Like baby, baby, baby, oh.

I thought you'd always be mine."

I don't know what a Justin Bieber is, but it sounds like something that would make me go on a shooting rampage.

Ah, there's no charity like that of forced charity.

epoc_tnac: HahahahahahacalltheACLU.

hee hee

NeedlesslyCanadian: Remember "Mmmbop"? That song annoyed the shiat out of everyone I knew when we were in middle school. Eventually, I thought we had seen the last of it.

And then my high school did the exact same as this one, with Mmmbop, EVERY farkING YEAR.

My UNIVERSITY did this, blasting mmbob across campus at all hours of the day. I think it made people unwilling to donate.

I just bought a singing dancing Justin Beiber bear that sings this baby song. Its for the office Christmas party gift exchange game. Someone is gonna be pissed. :)

Worthy of a strongly worded UN letter.

Government is probably exempt from pesky copyright laws.

Do libraries in the states also loan out music CDs and computer games like they do here?
I know for a fact that the libraries here just buy the regular versions.

That's nothing.

The Janet Reno and the ATF blasted THIS SONG repeatedly at David Koresh and his followers at Waco.



The effect was predictable.

I drove away a former room-mate by playing this song 24/7 on my laptop.
Challenge accepted.

Amos Quito: That's nothing.

The Janet Reno and the ATF blasted THIS SONG repeatedly at David Koresh and his followers at Waco.

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The effect was predictable.

I like that song.

It's always better when the donor is crying.

epoc_tnac: HahahahahahacalltheACLU.

More like "call Amnesty International."

Or the war crimes tribunal at the Hague....

Seriously, that would get your ass kicked in my school. fark yo Charity.

When your music is being used as a weapon to force people to do something in order to silence it...maybe thats a good sign it's time to hang up the mic, get fat, wander off in to obscurity with the millions you've already made, spending your days practicing some obscure form of meditation and waiting for a call in the future from some producer so you can have a cameo in some niche movie/TV show.

Figured this would make it to Fark. This is my daughter's high school. She said what made it much worse was that they had several students singing along when it was playing over the comm system. Shudder...

Mine did it with Friday. I think it's unethical.

pretty sure that violates 14th Amendment protections for chidren

AND for CHILDREN

FarkingStan: Mine did it with Friday. I think it's unethical.

Of course it's unethical. The kids don't even give a flying fark about the charity, they just want the shiatty music to stop. Irritating people into giving you money isn't a particularly moral way to collect for a good cause.

Innovative. Give US soldiers earplugs and have them blast Bieber songs at terrorists in the Middle East and maybe the terrorists will surrender in a day or two.

I can't wait until the students learn the important lesson that $1000 isn't going to do fark-all to save boocoo!

If this happened at my old highschool (we had a ton of "bad seeds", they were smart as hell though and I was friends with many of them) I have a feeling arson rates would skyrocket within the hour.

Curious: the what? no wonder schools are failing.

ETHS struggles a lot with the gap between white and black students. Enough so to lose its NCLB funding. This woman's job is probably to fix that.

screw the get all phone cally about such a minor slight, come on. there's enuff drama queens with their knickers in a twist over more important matters.

hopefully their next charity drive is less intrusive and more able to promote the good feeling one may experience when giving freely from the heart.

I've always wanted to use this meme in the proper context, now's the perfect chance: Won't some think of the children?

WastedHero: When your music is being used as a weapon to force people to do something in order to silence it...maybe thats a good sign it's time to hang up the mic, get fat, wander off in to obscurity with the millions you've already made, spending your days practicing some obscure form of meditation and waiting for a call in the future from some producer so you can have a cameo in some niche movie/TV show.

You know Van Halen's Panama was used against Manuel Noriega when he holed up in the Vatican Embassy in Panama during the American invasion, right?

This is what happens when you suppress the bully population the kids that would suggest these things would be ridiculed out before it happens...

We had a few of those - one was "Informer" on repeat, another was "man in motion"

We took it with good humour, and eventually the money was raised. After that, some asshats decided that they'd do the same thing to raise money for their spring semi-formal.

Bothering people for charity was one thing, bothering other people to subsidize your $50 shiatty dinner is another. This was pointed out to the office and the promotion was never done again while I was there.

/csb

Too Boocoo! Brack man too Boocoo!

"There were certainly people who disagreed that it was a fun thing," Hart said. "Some people were truly annoyed, but that's kind of the incentive. If it wasn't going to be slightly annoying, then you wouldn't be motivated to stop the music."

-TFA

So, if I come up to you and start blasting Rebecca Black's Friday outside your house until you gave me $1,000, you'd view that as "fun" and not a "public nuisance" or "extortion"?

For all 4 years of high school, they piped 'God Bless the USA' across the PA every morning @8AM as the song to tell students to get to their homerooms. You had to be in your room before the song ended and the loud buzzer sounded. I don't know when they started this "tradition" but I and all my siblings suffered through it (graduated 1997, 1999, 2001, 2008). Even to this day, when I hear that song I panic and feel like I'm going to be late to something.

Never mind over and over. Just listening to a fragment of a Bieber song is cruel and unusual punishment.