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RIAA Looks To Stop KaZaA, Morpheus & Grokster
John Hampton writes: "The RIAA is going to try to sue KaZaZ, Morpheus and Grokster, according to this story. Internal memos from within the RIAA outline the record label's findings and strategy going ahead. Great story. Hilary Rosen begging executives to talk about the issue and the RIAA issuing the lamest statement ever. From DotcomScoop.com."
This phrase has a couple of possble connotations. First would be "we need to bring our former customers back into the fold, and offer them some incentive to once again lavish our industry with extravagant and entirely unearned gifts of their precious, precious cash." This is, of course, not bloody likely, given that Hillary the Harpie views "customers" in much the same way as a vampire bat views an Argentinian cow.
The second, and much more likely, interpretation of her statement, is that the RIAA must seek some revenge against those who perhaps used to be paying customers, but were swayed by the RIAA's own retail guerilla tactics to pursue a different path, i.e., file sharing. This interpretation actually likens Hillary the Harpie's strategy to that of the US government, under the leadership of the winged monkey, in pursuing "war" against a methodology called terrorism (which is about as bright, in my book, as pursuing war against methodologies like pragmatism, or immunochemical histology, but then winged monkeys ain't made to be bright). I'd have the same advice for H the H as I have for W the Schmuck - give peace a chance, and, for the love of all that is decent and right, STEP DOWN NOW!
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
Having listened to the music being put out now by the RIAA members, I think we already have a reduction in quality, and that's before the copying starts!