House Energy and Commerce Committee Gets Crunk

On Tuesday, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee held hearings regarding whether record labels, music companies, music television stations, and the music industry at large should be doing more to shield our young from violent or misogynistic language, such as "banning words considered derogatory." Those under questioning included a range of industry personalities from Edgar Bronfman, Jr. (head of Warner Music Group) and Doug Morris (CEO of Universal Music Group) to David Banner and Master P.

Best argument of the day:
"Under questioning, Mr. Bronfman and Doug Morris, chairman of the Universal Music Group, stood by the industry’s existing method of handling explicit content, including the voluntary labeling of graphic CDs with parental-advisory stickers. Though they defended the industry’s practices, Mr. Bronfman and Mr. Morris lamented that efforts to restrict young listeners’ access to explicit music had become futile amid the proliferation of copyrighted songs and videos online."

That's right. Piracy is the problem. It all comes back to piracy.