riaa is as awesome as ever!

[Ankf00]

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/recording-indus.html


Recording Industry Decries AM-FM Broadcasting as 'A Form of Piracy'


:rofl:

[Insomniac]

They're reaching for anything and everything. Last year making a copy of your own CD for yourself was a nice way to say "just steals one copy".

Now judges are catching on to them. One has decided the "make available" argument isn't proof of copyright infringement. They dropped a case when they got that judge and refiled to avoid precedence.

[Ankf00]

I like how one day there's payola, and the next day there's this :laugh:

[nrc]

Now they're trying to eat the hand that feeds them. :)

They're just going to hasten their own decline. If they get what they want it will be an incentive for radio to play more independent artists.

[nissan gtp]

They're just going to hasten their own decline.


let's hope the death is soon and very ugly.

[Ankf00]

Now they're trying to eat the hand the feeds them. :)

They're just going to hasten their own decline. If they get what they want it will be an incentive for radio to play more independent artists.

next time riaa mails them a can of herring, NAB should mail back an itemized bill for all the free advertising riaa received

[oddlycalm]

next time riaa mails them a can of herring, NAB should mail back an itemized bill for all the free advertising riaa received
Right, and retro-date the bill back to 1960. :D

Or, simply stop playing tunes by artists under contract to the corporate media companies that keep pushing this crap. If the radio stations boycotted them they would be out of business by the end of the year. Like Richard posted, air independent artists. :thumbup:

oc

[RusH]

And about this gem....Usenet has been around since 1982, RIAA wants that shut down too!!.....except, just like the Internet, nobody owns it.:gomer:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9798715-38.html

scrw`em

[oddlycalm]

And about this gem....Usenet has been around since 1982, RIAA wants that shut down too!!.....except, just like the Internet, nobody owns it.:gomer:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9798715-38.html

scrw`em
Agreed on the scrw`em sentiment, but it is very possible to target individual newsgroups, so this is not an idle threat.

Every newsgroup has a home server and there is substantial history of companies successfully targeting the server operators with litigation to get specific servers shut down to protect copyrighted content. The only way around that would be to offshore the server(s) in someplace like the Isle Of Man where it would be outside most US and major European legal jurisdictions, something newsgroup operators would be unlikely to do since there is no income involved. People operate newsgroup servers as a service to the community, a concept alien to the riaa, so there is generally a very low limit to how much they will fight or spend.

oc

[datachicane]

Imagine- a world where musicians make a living by performing, and their recordings are just a marketing tool for the live shows.
Oh, the horror!
:eek:

Worked pretty well for Jerry, among others.
Sign me up for that ride.