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Friend Or Foe: RIAA Radar

Posted by timothy on from the think-you're-doing dept.

CrookedFinger writes "RIAA Radar is a bookmarklet that helps users find out if an album was released by a member of the RIAA. This will make it a bit easier to decide whether my purchase would fund attacks on my rights or support a plucky independent..."

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  1. Re:I don't get it by XipX · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not if the store doesn't accept the return as warning labels are starting to appear on DRM infected CDs.

  2. Re:4AD!! NOOOOO!!! by MrHanky · · Score: 3, Informative
    NO!! Not 4AD! Please say it's joke! ^cry^


    All right, all right, it's a joke! Happy now? Unfortunately, the radar seems to think the distributor of the album is the company that released the album, so even small Norwegian independent labels like Rune Grammofon (I did a test with Supersilent) get tainted by being distributed in the USA by ECM/Universal. 4AD is a British company, and should be quite independent of the Recording Industry Assosiation of America.

    This means this RIAA Radar is quite useless for anything released on a non-US label and distributed by a major label, unless you really don't want them to have any of your money. Then I suggest you buy your CDs from amazon.co.uk instead.