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RIAA Forgets to Make Royalty Payments
theodp writes "NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer agreed with the RIAA on one point - artists WERE being deprived of money that was rightfully theirs. But Spitzer managed to find $50 million for performers without shaking down grandmothers. Spitzer's culprits? A Who's Who of the nation's top recording companies - members of the RIAA - who failed to maintain contact with artists and stopped making required royalty payments."
without shaking down grandmothers.
But who knows what else they're getting away with ?
Shaking down grandmothers makes life worth living !
Don't villianize the RIAA. It's not their fault the artists didn't want their money. After all, it should be the artists responsibility to track all playings of their song around the world.
That lie aside, the RIAA sucks. I'm glad I'm not a musician on an RIAA label, I would hate myself.
hrrm.
Don't tell me the RIAA are a bunch of hypocritical, dishonest bastards! Now I have nothing left to believe in.
In Soviet Russia, RIAA pays you!
I claim it! The article doesn't say the claim has to be substantiated. And everyone knows that some random newspaper quote can be legally binding in the hands of a madman.
Oh well. At least I gave him a better title than "law talking guy" =P
"Hi? I'm calling for Mr. er... Ziggy Stardust. ... Wrong number? Oh, sorry to have you bothered you. It won't happen again."
Sounds like the makings of a Monty Python skit
If we allow grandmothers to download music, then the terrorists will have won.
If grandmothers are outlawed, only outlaws will have grandmothers !
Sounds to me like the artists may find better protection with the mob.
Somwhere at an RIAA office:
"Hello, kettle it's the pot, line 2, he's says your black"
cluge
"Science is about ego as much as it is about discovery and truth " - I said it, so sue me.
Try looking here
...I hate them so much!!!!!!!!
I mean if they can't find Dolly Parton then obviously they aren't looking too hard.
Another question would be WHY the RIAA lost touch with these artists. Was it on purpose or accident?
it was a terrible accident... the artist was not looking, and that big truck...
oh, all happened so suddenly, terrible accident i'm telling you.
Unnamed Male 1: Trouble on the P2P networks! Unnamed Female 1: Oh no! What kind of trouble!? Unnamed Male 1: I don't know. Mr. Wetworth told me to come and say there is trouble at the mill; that's all. I didn't expect some kind of RIAA! *woosh* RIAA Leader: Nobody expects the RIAA! Our weapon is surprise; surprise and fear. Fear and surprise are two weapons. Fear and surprise and a ruthless efficiency, are three weapons! Fear and surprise and a ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical devotion to the green back! etc... etc... etc...
Claiming they couldn't find the artists involved...
and think of those big mean ISP's that don't give out their records to RIAA, so that they could track down those... erm... artists.
darn, i hate those ISPs.
What's the difference? I personally think there should be astronomical fines, terminations and prison time for RIAA executives.
"I bow to no man" - Riddick
...so they can either cheat him blind or sue him later on.
Intercourse the RIAA.
Sigs are bad for your health.
Let's not forget the obligatory:
1. Charge people waaayyyyy too much for plastic, shiny disks
2. "Accidentally" lose track of famous artists, one of which lives in a huge amusement park that a 3 year old from Japan could locate
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!!!!! YEAH baby, YEAH!!
*rinse* *lather* *repeat*
John "Dripping with Irony"
The RIAA is going out of there way to correct a royalty problem that may/may not have entirely been their fault
Sure, it sounds good now. But wait until the quarterly earnings are publicized. The RIAA will complain that earnings were mysteriously $50 Million under the projected earnings, and blame it all on piracy.
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In Monty Python the grandmothers shake _you_ down.
Let me get this straight. They claim that they couldn't send people their royalties because they had lost touch with them.
How the hell do you lose someone like Bowie?
They obviously weren't trying very hard...
Actually, he might make a great U.S. Attorney General for a populist President - except that NYC might not want to let him go, and he'd probably be assassinated by some big-business interest before he was allowed anywhere near that level of influence...