RIAA Sequentially Repeating Edison's Mistakes?

An anonymous reader writes "George Ziemann has written the latest installment in his 'history repeats itself' series of articles regarding the record industry and the tactics utilized by their lobby, the RIAA. This time Ziemann focuses on the recent RIAA lawsuits against individuals who file-trade, and the search-and-seize missions against independent music stores. Slashdot posted his first two articles back in June."

Comments

Didn't we learn anything from Napster?

[the man with the pla]

A lot of people used Napster, before it was shut down. There was sentiment against file swapping for a short while, but then Kazaa, Morpheus, and others stepped in, and file swapping increased.

After the RIAA sues a few thousand people, and the tide turns against swapping, it will slow again.

But the fact of the matter is that the RIAA members need to come up with a new business model. File sharing will always be around in some fashion, and the technology will just get more and more complex - making it easier to do truely anonymous swapping.

It's been said a million times on here already - the RIAA is just like SCO - they need to adopt a new business model if they're going to survive. Litigation alone won't support them forever.

Re:Didn't we learn anything from Napster?

[mrjive]

I'd say a lot of music that's getting produced these days still falls into the "mulch" category.

Of course

[Hamstaus]

RIAA Sequentially Repeating Edison's Mistakes?

A statement like that puts an unfair association on Edison. It's like comparing apples to dog crap.

Re:Of course

[NanoGator]

" It's like comparing apples to dog crap."

Apples can eventually become dog crap. Granted, it's not all that likely.

Wow what a terrible quote:

[Stubtify]

"Even if there are [independent basball teams], they're certainly not going to make it into the World Series. The public doesn't complain because all the teams are apparently subject to the same rules. No team "wins" just because they have the richest owner."

And I hate the Yankees for this exact reason.

Electricity

[aardvarkjoe]

Well, if the RIAA is repeating what Edison did, eventually we'll start putting criminals to death by playing some recent CDs at them until they die.

(link)

You Have It All Wrong

[Farley Mullet]

Tesla, on the one hand, sucked seriously, but on the other hand, still get tonnes of play on "Classic Rock" stations with "Signs". So they have to still be clocking some pretty good royalty payments, and it'd be irresponsible to call them "poor". Also, 40-something skid radio station programmers still appreciate them, although I fail to see the relevance of their standing with the scientific community.

I saw Tesla open up for Skynard once, and I can confidently that they aren't at all geeks.

Re:Edison and Tesla

[Guppy06]

"The other died poor and in poor standing with the scientific community and is generally regarded as a kook."

Yeah, that's why the SI unit of magnetic flux density is called the edison. Oh, wait...

Edison vs RIAA

[sputnikid]

Hopefully the RIAA doesnt have any chairs with extra legs to prevent tipping... or a battery operated hammer.

Somewhere, far from Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

A music industry exec reads this article, turns to another, and asks "Which step number is 'profit!', again?"

I figured out what "RIAA" stands for.

[rock_climbing_guy]

RIAA is one of those weird recursive acronyms, like GNU.

RIAA stands for RIAA Is An Acronym. ( Can you think of any other good words that start with the letter "A"? I don't suppose that any come to mind at all! )