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RIAA Ends Harassment of Grieving Family
denebian devil writes "According to Cory Doctorow at Boingboing, the RIAA has dropped its case against the family of a dead man. 'Today, an RIAA spokesperson, Jonathan Lamy, contacted me today with this statement: Our hearts go out to the Scantleberry family for their loss. We had decided to temporarily suspend the productive settlement discussions we were having with the family. Mr. Scantleberry had admitted that the infringer was his stepson, and we were in the process settling with him shortly before his passing. Out of an abundance of sensitivity, we have elected to drop this particular case.'"
The RIAA (Jews, of course) are parasites. They exist solely to force the public to buy what they euphemistically call 'product'. Music is NOT 'product'. They tell us that if we don't pay for music, it will suddenly all dry up! Yeah right! How come 99% of bands don't make a living off their music then?
How long does it take to record a song? We aren't living in the 1970s. Any $600 home PC can record music at a quality far higher than the best recording studio on the planet, thirty years ago. Technology has advanced so far that we no longer need recording contracts and the begrudging help of record companies offering us studio time, we can do it ourselves.
Why does it take commercial bands so long to produce a new album? Because most of them are talentless fucks who take months to come up with one new song, and most music is crap!
There's no legitimate reason whatsoever why all artists don't have normal day jobs, and just produce their music in their evenings and weekends. And I'm deadly serious about that. How long does it take to come up with a good tune? A minute? Ten minutes? For most people, this simple act is actually impossible, no matter how long they have, and no matter how expensive the studio they have. It does NOT take one month of continuous effort to write a good song - all it takes is a few minutes and talent. Nobody works 24 hours a day. So why do artists have to earn so much money that they can give up their day jobs?
The market has changed. Music is now ridiculously overpriced - there is no competition! Go on iTunes and look at the price of album X. How do you buy that album at a cheaper price? Nobody else can produce it for less than the record company who owns the right. Therefore they have a monopoly. That's why iTunes prices are an absolute rip off (as much as buying an original CD! (without DRM, of course!) and people who buy from them are cretins. (Which also applies to iPod owners too...)
I've got loads of free soft synths for my PC, a cheap tracker program, and that's all I'll ever need to make music as good as I'll ever make. I make music in my SPARE TIME, as most people do. People with MORE talent need EVEN LESS time to write good music!
The RIAA are a bunch of parasites who leech off the talent of 'their' artists. The popular artists could do much better without the RIAA by doing the following: give away all of their music for free, on the internet, thus creating a huge fan base. Then give concerts, and at the end of the concert, all the fans can walk past a 'signing desk' where they can meet the artists, and throw money into a huge bucket/container when they meet the artists and talk to them. Imagine if you've been to a great gig with 2,000 other people, given by a band you REALLY love. You get to talk to them at the end of the gig (or maybe before, one or the other) and if you've been blown away by the gig, you give them what you think it was worth. $10? Times 2,000? Not a bad return for one day's work.
That might also get rid of the idiots who insist on going to concerts and then talk and yelp all the way through. Who are these dickheads? Every recording of a live band I've ever heard has hundreds of these incompetents, whistling their way over quiet passages of the music, shouting and whooping and just pretending to 'have a good time', while ruining the MUSIC for everybody else.
The main problem is that most people don't actually LIKE music, they pretend to because everybody else is also pretending too. Read Charlie Brooker's review of Sandi Thom (Google it).