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EMI Caught Offering Illegal Downloads

Posted by Zonk on from the dirty-dealings dept.

Hypocricy, LLC writes "While the RIAA is swift to punish any person caught offering illegal downloads, they're not very swift with outrage when a member company like EMI offers illegal downloads. Not only did the band King Crimson's contract never allow digital distribution to begin with, but band member Robert Fripp claims that EMI offered their music for sale even after their contract ended entirely."

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  1. Utter fiction (mods please note) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    (RIAA) invented the name to catch the bad PR so the evil things they do wouldn't reflect badly on the record labels themselves.

    The above statement is complete and utter fiction.

    The RIAA was formed in 1952 as a technical consortium to create standards for compatabililty for phonograph recordings such as the RIAA equalization curve.

    What they later became is another matter altogether.