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Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani


Background information
Born July 15, 1956
Born place Westbury, New York, United States
Genre(s) Instrumental Rock
Hard Rock
Heavy Metal
Years active 1978—present
Label(s) Epic Records
Sony Music
Relativity Records
Associated acts Chickenfoot
Deep Purple
Sammy Hagar
Steve Vai
Alice Cooper
Mick Jagger
G3
Jason Becker
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KISS Websites Hacked After Gene Simmons File-Sharing Comments

October 15, 2010
KISS Websites Hacked After Gene Simmons File-Sharing CommentsWebsites belonging to KISS’s Gene Simmons have been hacked following the bassist’s recent comments about illegal downloading.

Last week, Simmons urged musicians to protect their catalogue and “sue everybody” who shared their music illegally.

In response, online attackers, Anonymous, hijacked SimmonsRecords.com and GeneSimmons.com.

Both sites - which have since been restored - featured a letter headed: “Operation Payback (Is A B*tch).”

Appearing at the MIPCOM convention in Cannes, France, Simmons accused the music industry of not reacting fast enough to curb the problem of illegal file-sharing.

The bassist said lawsuits should have been issued against illegal downloaders sooner and that the error had cost “hundreds of thousands of jobs” in the industry.

(by Jason Gregory)



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