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DefectiveByDesign Supporters to Call on RIAA Execs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the letting-em-know dept.

johnsu01 writes "DefectiveByDesign.org is organizing a call-in campaign for today. People around the country will be calling high-ranking RIAA officials to deliver the message that DRM is an unacceptable restriction on the freedom of consumers and citizens. DefectiveByDesign will provide the numbers to call when you sign up. This action should attract the people who thought that Apple was not a good target because it is the RIAA that requires DRM and those who think that wearing HazMat suits is obnoxious. Everyone can vote with their dollars, but that doesn't tell the RIAA why they aren't getting the dollars. With a few thousand people signed up already, they will undoubtedly know after today."

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  1. Drunk Dialing the RIAA by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Funny
    I think I'll sign up for this and store a few of these numbers on my phone. I hope they remain active, that way I'll always be able to call the RIAA about the DRM on my sister's iPod or even just to remind them that their invited to accompany me and a certain politician on a "hunting trip."

    Something that I do when I'm drinking at 2 or 3 am is drunk dial people. This is pretty much a curse as I proceed to leave indiscernible/garbled phone messages for my victims.

    Thanks to this website, I'll now be able to leave those messages on RIAA answering machines. If I get an RIAA representative on the phone, it will be perfect because:
    • I've never lost an argument when drunk. At least, nobody's ever not conceded to me.
    • I'm twice as opinionated and polarized when I'm drunk compared to when I'm sober.
    • I constantly like to give people a "piece of my mind" and/or "settle their hash" when wrecked.
    • I love to sing when I'm drunk. This is bad because it usually comes out in an a-melodic fashion.
    • Phone conversations with me can last an hour or more. Sometimes taking as much as 10 minutes to figure out who I am, what I'm doing, where I am & (the hardest one) why I'm calling you.
    So, as you can see, there are so many good reasons for me to put the RIAA on the top of my drunk dialing list. Not because I want to call them and tell them how much I'm going to miss after everyone graduates and moves away ... but instead to let them know my true inner feelings about DRM, who they are and what they do.
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    1. Re:Drunk Dialing the RIAA by phaxkolumbo · · Score: 5, Funny

      I love to sing when I'm drunk.

      Careful there, if you do that RIAA might actually get back to you...

  2. Old School by cloudkiller · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm up for the old-school phone-a-thon, but can't someone just track down the blue frog killers and send the RIAA a message that way? 1000 or so calls just means a $5.15 an hour receptionist has a really bad day.

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  3. Better still by GroeFaZ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Return to them, via email, all .mp3s you ever obtained without paying.

    I know, old hat, but still funny :)

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    1. Re:Better still by Eideewt · · Score: 4, Funny

      If only there were some way to make copies....

  4. DefectiveByDesign ??? by gedeco · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like a evaluation of the campaign itself.

  5. Re:Ugh. Why can't they just post the damn numbers by McWilde · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I can't recall my nick on here"

    It's "Kaitiff".

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  6. PLEASE MOD PARENT UP by spyrochaete · · Score: 2, Funny

    This should be at the top of the page!!

  7. CDs by EvilIdler · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is as good a place as any to post this link:

    http://foamyhost.com.nyud.net:8080/swf/cds.swf

    Funny, and too true.

  8. Re:Here Are the Numbers! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny
    a good email address was sacrificed to spam to get this information... use it wisely.
    But how many Bothans died? No sacrifice can be understood unless converted to the universal measurement of Bothan deaths.
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  9. Re:Ugh. Why can't they just post the damn numbers by ProfFalcon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but the phone book doesn't contain a correlation with "likely to be a pirate".

    According to the RIAA numbers on the losses due to pirating, I would have to disagree with your assumption. Based on their numbers, if you're listed in the phone book, you're likely a pirate.
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  10. Re:Good luck with that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Christ you're stupid.

    He in fact HAS legal tender, known to the rest of us as "money". What he's refusing is to borrow tracked money at 15% because he, once again, already HAS said money. If you can't grasp something that simple, it's tempting to ask if you work for the RIAA, maybe in the loss estimation department?