RIAA Continues Distributing Dud CDs to Satisfy Settlement

Posted by michael on Sunday July 25, 2004 @05:45AM from the shudder dept.

cosyne writes "Part of the music industry's recent price fixing settlement involves giving free CDs to public libraries. Although they are technically complying with the the letter of the law, they're abusing the spirit by giving the libraries large piles of crud. According to the Stevens Point Journal, '[the] Milwaukee Public Library received 1,235 copies of Whitney Houston's 1991 recording of "The Star-Spangled Banner," 188 copies of Michael Bolton's "Timeless," 375 of "Entertainment Weekly: The Greatest Hits 1971," and 104 copies of Will Smith's "Willennium."' The recording industry obviously wouldn't want to have libraries loaning out music that people might otherwise buy." See also a related story about shipments to another state.

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Re:Sorry. I hate the RIAA by rokzy · 2004-07-25 06:40 · Score: 0, Troll

Microsoft has so much money that you're probably helping them more by using pirated version than paying. You give them all the satisfaction of a monopoly, plus the ability to use piracy as an argument for their DRM becoming required under law which will complete their plan for a 3000 year reich.