Is The RIAA’s Record About To Be Smashed To Bits?

ha ha ha! Die bloodsuckers die!

Music to my ears! )

YES!! music to my ears indeed..

-these bastards fudged the piracy data back in 2003-4 or so claiming 45% loses to get congress to get laws rammed through to start the fiasco in the first place..

-then after the laws went through, admitted to a calculating error stating that it was only 10%-15% losses, as well as not disclosing with clarity, the methods which they used to get the numbers in the first place..

dig through arstechnica.com archives for all the news blurbs..

whatever organization is funding the legal counsel against the RIAA should provide a donate button.. i’d throw’em a few bucks to see this elephant put down..

-s

Artists should get paid for their work. Distributors should make a small profit off distributing their work. Artist’s grand kids shouldn’t still be getting paid unless grandpaw was savvy enough to make good investments with his dough and leave to his posterity versus shoving it up his nose. And it sure as hell should not interfere with what is essentially the new printing press, soapbox, postal system, communication and purveyor of a global first amendment right of everyone else on the #&%@?*!! planet.

“The music industry stands to lose countless cases if it loses this particularly high profile one.”

Well if huge profits are at stake, then of course the peoples’ rights must be trampled. It only makes sense if you live in a corporate kiss-up nation such as the US. Corporate rights always out-trump individual rights, because the lobbying dollars are just to overwhelming for any elected politicians to ignore. What do you think they are, anyway? SAINTS?! Those measly automatic 3% pay raises aren’t enough of an incentive for them to think about sticking up for you or me. It takes millions of “get reelected” dollars, to
grab their attention. What we need is a trillion dollar taxpayer funded lobbyist firm to out power all the rest. If that make any sense. Or just shoot all the other lobbyists.
Obviously, I’m being satirical.

Ya know, patents have a life limit (it use to be only one year!). And copyrights, ought to have a limit too, that’s NOT decades long, and renewable at every whim. Art become part of our collective culture, after a time. And keeping a restrictive copyright, on our culture is like living under some commercial dictatorship. Forms of expression can be suppressed, without any justifiable, unconstitutional, reasons. Other than it now violates the copyright holders’ wishes. Well excuse the holy crap out of me for want to say something that treads on some dumbasses song!!!

If they didn’t want to become part of our culture, they shouldn’t have published it so openly, from the beginning. It should have come of stated restrictions, like… The song you are about to hear is protected from use by anyone other than the right holder. Yeah, that would really put a buzz-kill on hearing the Star Wars theme in the Malls at Christmas time.

Let’s face it, the corporations that really own all this junk, have enjoyed all kinds of free (taxpayer paid) protection from theft and transgression. But they shouldn’t expect it to be a permanently granted protection. And the people should expect to get something in return. Like this stuff failing into the public domain, within a generation (NOT AFTER THREE!!). There are statutes of limitations on everything else you or I might contest. Put apparently, if you’re wealthy enough you can bribe Congress and the world governments to look out for your stuff forever more.

Overlooked point, the RIAA are an international organization which lobbies foreign governments and where necessary threatens US trade sanctions and trade embargoes against tiny, defenseless economies. When the USA is “tearing it a new one”, it thrives in foreign jurisdictions. In New Zealand and Australia, it’s influence permeates all levels of academia, government and commerce.