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Friend Or Foe: RIAA Radar
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..."
words can not describe how useful this may be. I ran some of my recent cd purchases through the RIAA radar, and I didn't buy a single RIAA release :)
But that was just by accident, not by any concious decision to boycott the RIAA. This tool, on the other hand, will make it a whole lot easier to decide what music to buy and what music not to buy.
Props to who ever wrote this.
"However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."
Did anyone else read the title and think, OH MY LORD! DRM has gone TOO DAMN FAR this time!
Can't get it to work. Is it my fault, or is Opera to blame?
well, nobody's perfect... but we're going to have to kill you, anyway. ;p
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Sweet, I've been looking for something like this.
... but occasionaly I buy from bigger labels.
... any chance of a movie version?
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])
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
I'd just like to point out to people that according to this site, a band may not stick with just one label. A lot of Prodigy's stuff seems to be RIAA tainted, but Jilted Generation is not. In short, if you want a CD, check to see if its under RIAA grips instead of going off of other albums you've seen/may have.
Major props to the creator of this program; I can now feel purchase a replacement of my old Jilted Generation without convulsing from guilt. =)
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Nah, that'd be cool. This is more like learning your wife of 30 years is a guy.
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?
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?
...but I sure wish this had hit the main /. page.
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.
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!!
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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