4. Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City Was Banned In Brazil For Accidentally Using Unauthorised Music
There's no way better way to show a country that you don't respect it than to pluck out some of its music and use it without permission, right? That's what Rockstar learned, anyway, when Brazil banned
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City because it used an unauthorized sample from "Bota o Dedinho pro Alto" (that classic), a piece of music written by Brazilian composer Hamilton Lourenco da Silva. Man, Brazil really looks out for the interests of its composers. The sample was contained within a track called "Daniel Haaksman - Kid Conga feat. Mc Miltinho," a track which Rockstar did actually attain the rights to use within the game. In an attempt to right the situation, they showed Brazil (we're just calling whatever "it" is "Brazil") the signed documents that gave them permission to use the track. Still, Brazil got super-annoyed and decided that the signatures were false, and
Episodes From Liberty City was banned. But doesn't "banned" seems like such a harsh decision, given that the song could have just been taken out of the game or something instead? Now nobody in Brazil can crash taxi cabs into prostitutes and slaughter civilians, which, royalties aside, is the real crime in all this.