Rejected petition Stop the decline of musical artistry by imposing a fine for miming live performances or using performance enhancing software like Auto-tune.

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In other professions, using performance enhancing aids, such as drugs in sports for example, are punishable by a fine and or ban from any professional activity in their field. This is a petition for the same to apply to the music industry. Miming, or using auto-tune software, is cheating the fans and destroying live music and it should be banned. Live should mean live.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Any sanction for performance enhancement is imposed by the relevant governing authority.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 7 October 2014
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