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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. Uh oh... by seinman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can't get it to work. Is it my fault, or is Opera to blame?

    1. Re:Uh oh... by buford_tannen · · Score: 2, Interesting
      I found that Mozilla stores the link
      javascript:var index=location.href...
      as
      javascript:var%20index=location.href...
      when the link is actually bookmarked. It worked when I converted it back to a space. Maybe that's what Opera needs, too.

      Hope this helps.
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  2. What this means is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    i will buy from the indies, and I won't buy from the RIAA...

    Since this is such a limited boycott (ok maybe not THAT limited, but we do have the tech gap to deal with.) Those savvy enough to care, will just download the artists music for nothing. And feel little or no compulsion to get some miniscule revenue into an artists pocket.

    So far... Bjork, DMB, Chili peppers, U2, Rage and a few other favorites are now on my blacklist (until such time as they break from the RIAA)

    Thumbs up to bad religion..... umm... that's about all I found for my tastes anyways.

  3. coool!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sweet, I've been looking for something like this.

    I buy from a mostly indie labels (the kind where you can send out an email to the label head and as soon as he gets home from his non-music-related day job he writes back [or she actually]) ... but occasionaly I buy from bigger labels.

    It's just nice to know how many of your CD purchases are funding the RIAA which then funds Congress which then passes those lovely laws.

    Actually to be honest the RIAA isn't quite as scary as the MPAA when it comes to these things ... any chance of a movie version?

  4. I don't get it by ajuda · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't get it, I thought that we were supposed to buy RIAA DRM CDs and then return them as "defective" -- won't that hurt them a bit more than simply not buying the CDs?

  5. Privacy Policy? by Lshmael · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Although the creator "assures us that the bookmarklet is safe," how do we know? And what is with the "Most Recent Queries" box on the right?

  6. Wonderful by Dachannien · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...but I sure wish this had hit the main /. page.

  7. Cool use of Amazon web services by nixman99 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I mean this seriously, not as flamebait

    1. Create a tool to help people boycott the RIAA
    2. Get said people to buy CDs through your link
    3. Profit!!

  8. Hmmm... scAmazon required? by asackett · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Whoa now. We want to know if the RIAA is behind an album we want, but we have to visit the evil Bezos' site to do it? WTFO?

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