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RIAA Dumps Unsold Inventory to Settle Anti-Trust Case

Posted by michael on from the chicken-soup-for-little-souls dept.

theodp writes "A music windfall promised to WA public schools and libraries from last year's $143M anti-trust settlement with the recording industry wasn't all it was cracked up to be. While WA got 115,241 music CDs out of the deal, folks aren't quite sure what to do with the odd collection, which includes 387 CDs containing explicit lyrics by Big Pun, 310 copies of Will Smith's Willenium and 48 copies of Spooky Scary Sounds for Halloween from Martha Stewart."

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  1. RIAA Criminally At Fault? by mfh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From the Article: Raunchy music wasn't what anyone in education or the Attorney General's Office had in mind when they announced that a windfall of music was coming to public schools and libraries from last year's $143 million anti-trust settlement with the recording industry.

    Yes, but it's exactly what the RIAA had in mind, so couldn't the Attourney General charge the RIAA with the intentional corruption of youth? Gosh if the world was perfect, the RIAA would be charged criminally for trying to push explicit lyrics on children.

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    1. Re:RIAA Criminally At Fault? by Troed · · Score: 5, Interesting

      RIAA would be charged criminally for trying to push explicit lyrics on children

      Are you by any chance a US citizen?

      In the rest of the world we let the parents raise their children .. really .. what do you think happens to kids who listen to "explict lyrics"? I'm seriously curious.

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  2. Wow...what a bunch of scumbags... by FatSean · · Score: 5, Interesting

    An who in the gov't decided that shitty music that doesn't sell is an appropriate method of payment?!?!

    Disgusted. I'm going to go steal some music off of the internet now.

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  3. Re:It must be good stuff, it was on the Billboard! by Ralph+Wiggam · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In 22 channel surround you might be able to hear some way that Ice Ice Baby's beat is different from Under Pressure's. That video clip of Vanilla Ice explaining how his song is nothing like Under Pressure is one of the funniest things MTV has ever shown. For those of you who havn't seen it, Vanilla Ice says "Their version goes like this...ding-ding-ding-dinga-ding-ding...and my version goes like this...ding-ding-ding-dinga-ding-ding". I've probably seen that clip a dozen times and I have yet to tell any difference between his two renditions.

    -B

  4. Re:This stuff is useful, look for yourself! by monkeydo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    According to the article the settlement state that, "Titles had to be on a Billboard chart for at least 26 weeks and had to peak in the top half of the chart." I can't think of many CD's fitting that description that aren't crapola.

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