Suing Your Customers a Good Idea?

VB writes "Boycott-RIAA is running Fred von Lohmann's article which looks like the ideal answer to solving the P2P problem. He suggests setting up a payment system similar to SESAC, ASCAP, and BMI, collecting organizations for songwriters. This seems such an obvious solution and a great way to get artists paid and give listeners the right to listen to their favorite songs cheaply and keep them out of jail. Why wouldn't this work?"

Comments

Why?

[spikestabber]

Because then the RIAA would not have control. Since when was this all about money?

Re:Why?

[kfg]

The RIAA exists to serve the artists. . .

Where on earth did you ever get that idea? The RIAA is the trade association of the record labels.

Can they do anything without the RIAA's blessings?

If 'their' recordings are the 'intellectual property' of an RIAA member, no.

What they can do, in future, is not allow themselves to be bought into the system. The system, however, has created a very powerful, but false, impression that it is a necessary componant to record, release and sell music.

It may still be a necessary componant to achieve fame in the music business, but I might also argue that those in the business for fame aren't people I would call artists.

Go it alone. Raise your own money, take your own risks and make your own art. Own yourself. It gets cheaper and easier every day. Be happy with this whatever it brings in terms of money and fame.It's what the RIAA fears most.

Fuck the 'industry' and the horse it rode in on. Music is about people.

KFG

Re:Screw the corporate pigopolists.

[Performaman]

I thought part of the US legal system was "Innocent untill proven guilty."
Now I guess it's "Innocent untill proven broke."