RIAA Wants Artist Royalties Lowered

laughingcoyote writes "The RIAA has asked the panel of federal government Copyright Royalty Judges to lower royalties paid to publishers and songwriters. They're specifically after digital recordings, and uses like cell phone ringtones. They say that the rates (which were placed in 1981) don't apply the same way to new technologies." From the article: "According to The Hollywood Reporter, the RIAA maintains that in the modern period when piracy began devastating the record industry profits to publishers from sales of ringtones and other 'innovative services' grew dramatically. Record industry executives believe this to be cause to advocate reducing the royalties paid to the artists who wrote the original music."

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This is a racial case

[mapkinase]

It is racism to assume certain cultural behaviour as normal.

The "emotional" evidence should be never used in the court. Period.

The problem with American culture is too much "I", too little of "we". That is the course of many domestic and other conflicts resulting in serious crimes. That is the course of record-high prison population in US - individualism. People are not thinking social, they are not thinking of preserving social order, when they are acting. There actions are exlusively determined by their egos. "Why would I benefit from this action? How I save my butt in this course of events?".

High level of crime leads to necessity of going over the board in persecuting. Crime is not done in public most of the times. So called forensic science and admitting "emotional" evidence in court has little to do with science and truth. Everything has to be explained by science and that leads to the biased view of what science can do and cannot do at this time: most of the time people overestimate scientific data.

This happens in publishing scientific results as well. People are getting away with overblown claims and get publications in "respected" journals. /Flame

Re:What the fuck man, have you no compassion?

[WilliamSChips]

And this is the sort of humor we will lose if we all move to Lojbania.