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Still More RIAA News

Posted by michael on from the thank-you-sir-may-i-have-another dept.

We just did an article about the RIAA's mendacity with statistics, and here come some more: first, someone has gone to the trouble to deconstruct their income figures over the past few years, showing that the RIAA's lack of investment in new releases is in itself sufficient to explain any dropping sales, and second, this website concerning the music industry settling a price-fixing lawsuit, which I believe is this one, filed two years ago.

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  1. Hang on a second by ottffssent · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok. Let me see if I've got this straight. I fill out that form and the RIAA will give me some money to buy a DVD with?

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  2. I'm sure that the RIAA scaled back supply... by Apathy+costs+bills · · Score: 2, Funny

    They scaled back supply because they knew that Napster would pick up the slack.

    (-;

    NOT!

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  3. Copyright by oliverthered · · Score: 2, Funny

    'gone to the trouble to deconstruct their income figures', Bad idea, there clearly not facts and so the RIAA can claim copyright violations.

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  4. Hilary Rosen eating from a dumpster by medscaper · · Score: 3, Funny
    Y'know, I won't be happy (and am probably joined by many of the rest of the /. crowd) until I read the Oprah interview in three years about how they found Hilary Rosen living behind a record store somewhere, homeless, eating out of a dumpster to survive.

    Of course, that means I'd have to live with the thought that Oprah is still around in 3 years, but that's a pain I can easily live with.

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  5. This just in... by Eusebo · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to RIAA President Hillary Rosen, "107% of the music consumers surveyed believe our statistics."

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    1. Re:This just in... by Craig+Maloney · · Score: 4, Funny

      Only ten people believed the statistic, but they REALLY believed it, right?

  6. If you people are going to continue ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 4, Funny

    to ruthlessly point out the factual, logical and mathematical "imprecisions" that underly the fight against savage piracy, then you are going to make it that much more difficult for the industry to successfully try and execute these heinous criminals who plague society.

  7. JOKE by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's two Disney executives walking across a parking lot when they pass a beautiful girl coming the other way. After they pass, one of the suits says "I fucked her". The other looks suitably impressed "Oh yeah? Out of what?".

    (Replace Disney with your favoured record company du jour.)

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  8. Re:many perspectives by Anonym0us+Cow+Herd · · Score: 5, Funny

    It doesn't cost any *money* to steal, but stealing still has cost. Most notable is time cost -- it takes time to locate and download a song you want. And even then once you're done you can't be sure you didn't get a lot of data errors in the track or different songs in the album were recorded with different loudness, etc.

    Agreed. This clearly shows that our large scale piracy systems still need improvement.

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