{"id":210231,"date":"2025-10-13T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210231\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:34:09","slug":"the-cure-went-after-ice-for-stealing-a-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210231\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cure went after ICE for stealing a song."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s be clear: Unless you have specific permission to use someone\u2019s song in something you created, it\u2019s illegal. Full stop. That\u2019s copyright infringement, You need a license. And you\u2019d think that the US Government would know this. After all, there\u2019s a branch of the federal bureaucracy that deals specifically with the enforcement of copyright.<\/p>\n<p>But the goons running ICE who are busy arresting, detaining, and deporting Americans with a tan? Pfft. \u201cWe\u2019re ICE! We\u2019re part of Homeland Security! WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robert Smith and the Cure has entered the chat. <\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security posted a video on social that imagines \u201clife after all the criminal aliens are deported\u201d featuring the hit \u201cFriday I\u2019m in Love.\u201d The video shows \u00a0archival footage of Donald Trump from the 1980s plus clips from\u00a0Twin Peaks, the NBA and NASCAR, and a bunch of other random Everything is captioned with. \u201cThe future is bright.\u201d It appeared October 2,<\/p>\n<p>Robert Smith and his team demanded that the Xitter clip be taken down on copyright infringement grounds, It has since been taken down under the DMCA.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The future is bright. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fUS9Jvfl8G\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/fUS9Jvfl8G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DHSgov\/status\/1973866347903005055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 2, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time DHS had done sh*t like this. Jay-Z went the department for using his track \u201cPublic Service Announcement\u201d for an ICE recruitment video. Country singer Zach Brown got trolled by DHS when he released a clip of what appeared to be an anti-ICE song, Even the company behind Pok\u00e9mon\u00a0got pissed when their creatures and theme song in another social media post,<\/p>\n<p>This won\u2019t be the last time we hear a story like this. Trust me.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s be clear: Unless you have specific permission to use someone\u2019s song in something you created, it\u2019s illegal.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,102331,39508,75,102332,3589,341],"class_list":["post-210231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cure","tag-dhs","tag-entertainment","tag-friday-im-in-love","tag-ice","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}