Dorr, the 37-year-old owner of Imbibe on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, has been slapped with a federal lawsuit by companies that own the rights to a trio of popular classics that were performed at Dorr’s restaurant in 2005.
First it was illegal downloading and the industry had a point but instead of adapting to a changing marketplace they went with the new American way….litigation baby litigation. So, they sued 12 year olds….and then those evil kids sitting in their bedrooms trying to learn how to play their favorite riffs from the new Fall Out Boy song became to much for the industry to bear so they decided to shutdown the guitar tab web sites….BUT it was too late…some of those kids had already formed cover bands and were out there playing songs in public…well, the solution was obvious….yup, you guessed it…..sue the restaurant owner. Makes perfect fucking sense.
Really, when I first saw this story on Tiny Mixed Tapes I thought it had to be a copy/paste of an Onion article…..but it is the real deal…It is obvious to me now “the music industry” has decided the only way to prevent copyright infringement is to kill music completely. I wish I could say I was in disbelief but honestly….I’m not…
The married father of two, who opened Imbibe a couple of years ago, said bands typically start playing after 10. But after Friday, the restaurant will do without live music because of the lawsuit.
Somewhere, ASCAP execs are high fiving one another.