Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Canadian Record Label Fights RIAA Lawsuits

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-gonna-take-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nettwerk Music Group, Canada's leading privately owned record label has joined the fight against the RIAA's strategy of individual lawsuits. Nettwerk CEO Terry McBride says 'Suing music fans is not the solution, it's the problem. Litigation is not "artist development." Litigation is a deterrent to creativity and passion and it is hurting the business I love. The current actions of the RIAA are not in my artists' best interests.'"

2 of 215 comments (clear)

  1. Self-promotion by Dekortage · · Score: 5, Informative

    The link in the Slashdot summary goes to someone's blog (yeah, I wonder who "anonymously" submitted it). Here is the actual news item... err, press release... (as linked to from that blog).

    But it's nice to see that yet another company is telling off the RIAA.

    --
    $nice = $webHosting + $domainNames + $sslCerts
    1. Re:Self-promotion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      It's not just anybody's blog, there, buddy. Geist is probably Canada's leading intellectual property expert and is a professor at the University of Ottawa. He's our Larry Lessig.

      So (as we say in Canada), take off, eh!