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How to Legally Infuriate the RIAA?
An anonymous reader shot us off a link to an article discussing how to use the RIAA's System to Broadcast Music Legally. Now, I'm no lawyer, but if the facts are correct in this article, we're talking about a price point that makes streaming radio extremely inexpensive. There's a lot of worthless spite in this article, but if you can look past that, you might see something worth thinking about.
"Continue to pirate mp3's from P2P programs :)"
;)
Um, you mean share, right?
The odds decrease dramatically the farther away from the Sarengetti or Busch Gardens you live. For most of us reasers, we would see it on the news weeks before the flood of Zebras made it to our house. That should give us enough time to finish posting to slashdot, pack up our star wars action figures and set our Tivo's to record Star Trek till they pass.
Oh no, We're going to get Inquirer'ed.
Nope, doesn't have that ring to it...
He's obviously not read the regulations very carefully...
Among other places where this scheme is legally questionable, the rules explicitly prevent radio stations from doing things like allowing listeners to democratically select which songs to play.
There are also a whole list of regulations specifying what orders songs can't play in, how often they can play, etc.
And that's not even getting into the somewhat complicated setup with the actual music houses that collect royalties, which aren't the RIAA itself.
This guy needs to do a little more research and try again.
In actuality, the entire article in an anagram.
What it really says is:
How To Quickly and Easy Get Posted on Slashdot
In a time where flattery will get you everywhere, there is no group to which this better applies than the geeks. Of course, we could have referenced other geek sites (that one with the 5 in it), but we chose not to. Geeks, who feel oppressed and underloved by society, love nothing more than to see their name in lights (or pixels) by a worthy editorial such as this. We chose to use the most whimsical of the geek-sites, Slashdot.org, and will see how quickly it works. A breakdown is as follows:
Read Entire Translation...
When modding "Informative", please make sure it both has a source and IS actually informative.
The Register also has an article on webcasting and the RIAA. The two articles together show how webcasting may be the RIAA's Achilles heel.
He links to the rules regarding royalties, but the method violates virtually every regulation governing webcasts:
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http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#1
I promise you that it would cost the RIAA more to process a five thousand 7 cent checks than they'd earn in the exercise. :-)
No, he meant make offsite backups.
You zap the moderators with a wand of humor! The moderators resist!
Or he has no idea just how shitty our search function is.
As the guy who wrote that, the only response I have is that you obviously have no idea how sarcasm or humor works. Some of the article was meant as humor, some seriously. As someone with (almost) a biology degree, I can say that rather authoratatively that zebras do not herd, much less trample hapless filesharers above the arctic circle. Hell, they don't even do it within about 10 degrees of the arctic circle due to deforestation (again, humor).
One thing I do apologise for are the math errors scattered throughout the article. I wrote it at 4am after reading something or other that pissed me off. Due to time zone differences, I couldn't correct most of the problems before it got slashdotted. Now, it is to late. *SIGH*.
-Charlie