feh. the popcorn has gone stale. the thread lost its burst fifteen posts ago.

Wait, who the hell is Joe satriani?

I bet he's not as dreamy as Chris Martin.

No worries, Dude.

As I stated in my first response, proving plagiarism is extremely difficult. Extremely. Joe Satriani's people will have to somehow prove that Chris Martin and/or anyone in Coldplay actually heard Joe's song.

And as I stated earlier, Chris Martin may have heard this song in passing years ago, only to unintentionally use the same melody for their song.

It's a difficult case for sure.

Talk about the skillet callin' the kettle black..... ROFL

I sat on one of my balls today. I wanted to sue that ball for obstruction of sitting. But I won't. It still is a part of me.

I'm not going to say EVERY thread, but come on, man. You're 43 years old. Isn't it time to mellow out a bit? I think you let other people get to you too much. Just let it go, safe and secure in the knowledge that you're right on this issue :)

In my opinion, Satriani should also be suing THE HOME DEPPOT for ripping off the same song.

Listen at :06.

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There's risk involved in going to a judgment because you can never be sure that you'll win even if you think you've got a strong case. Settlements are a way of paying to eliminate that risk. Kind of like the "buy now" option on ebay.

ROFL

Based on avatar, I believe TinyEvel has become DOMO-KUN!

Hmmm....

I've always wondered if you tried hard enough, how many cases like this you could probably find. It's hard to reinvent the wheel. That's how you get two people claiming the same band stole the same song.

That chorus bit definitely sounds similar. I personally enjoyed the new album though, I don't know if it was working with Brian Eno or what, I liked it way better than X&Y. But I like all kinds of music, I really could give a rip about what the rest of you idiots think. :)

I think you might be onto something here. Rumor has it that Eno and satch are from the same star cluster in the Gamma Quadrant.

Knowledge can be inferred from facts/circumstances.

They don't technically have to prove he heard it. They can present the music to the jury and allow the jury to make the inference that the songs could never have been so similar but/for Martin having heard the song.

This is completely false.

Certain guidelines have been established to prevent the shutdown of the entire music business. Case law now exists to prevent this from happening.

The main element the plaintiff has to "prove" is Coldplay had access to and had heard Satriani's riff. If they can't prove that, the case is over.

Period.