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RIAA Writes Its Own News For Local TV
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Did your local news recently do a two-minute clip on music copyright infringement? If so, you can thank the RIAA. They sent out a video press release to local news stations as part of their 'holiday anti-piracy campaign.' In it, they warn people that the best way to avoid counterfeit music is to avoid 'compilation CDs that could only exist in the dreams of a music fan' and to trust their ears, because illegally copied music usually sounds 'atrocious.' Instead, they encourage watchers to buy ringtones for Christmas."
There is of course another solution: Stop listening to music RIAA is associated with and instead only listen to music made by independents who freely share their work under Creative Commons and other licences on the net.
Why fight to listen to something that is of low quality anyway? Independents make better music because they love what they do! And if you want to thank them you can always offer them a donation.
// avoid 'compilation CDs that could only exist in the dreams of a music fan
Yes, because fans (read: customers) could only ever dream of the riaa actually providing them with what they want.
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someone fist this personsl offtopic mod..
for once a sig metion/correction that is relevent to the train of thought at hand.
on a side note.. i think that who ever did mod Berdo offtopic would get a gold metal (read my sig toget it)
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'