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RIAA Denies Hypocrisy in Royalties Dustup

Posted by Zonk on from the not-our-problem dept.

Hairless ape writes "The RIAA is reacting to a story pointing out the group's hypocrisy in its attempts to have songwriter royalties lowered. The issue stems from attempts to get webcasters to pay fixed royalty rates. 'In short, the contention was that the RIAA wanted to pay a percentage of its revenue to songwriters as its profits have fallen, but pushed for a fixed per-stream when it came to earning money from webcasters.' The RIAA says that's not so, and that SoundExchange offered a similar model to webcasters. Either way, the rates sought by the two groups would have bankrupted many webcasters. 'Now you know; it wasn't about hypocrisy, but one of the seven deadly sins may still have been involved.'"

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  1. Deadly sins? by charlesbakerharris · · Score: 1, Funny

    Since when was hypocrisy one of the seven deadly sins?

    1. Re:Deadly sins? by bagboy · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think he is referring to - gluttony.

    2. Re:Deadly sins? by GaratNW · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think slashdot needs a new positive (+1) rating.. Pedantic. Because.. here, it really is raised to an artform. :)

  2. Payola? by Van+Cutter+Romney · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like Payola all over. Maybe we'll get Eliot Spitzer to prosecute RIAA again ... Oh, wait!

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    1. Re:Payola? by ArhcAngel · · Score: 3, Funny

      Maybe we'll get Eliot Spitzer to prosecute RIAA again

      He's too busy working up his bid to run for president.

      Hey! It worked for Bill.

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  3. Re:Fourteen deadly sins by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hear me! Oh, Hear me! All pay heed! The Lord, the Lord Jehovah has given unto you these fifteen (crash)...Oy! ten-- ten commandments, for all to obey!

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  4. News? by Gat0r30y · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unscrupulous organization denies blatant hypocrisy. Details at 11.

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  5. Re:Fourteen deadly sins by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Funny

    In that case everyone's going to hell! Well, that's the whole point, isn't it? No one is without sin, so everyone must ask for God's forgiveness. Vendor lock-in.

    I wonder if the alcohol that Christ made out of water counts as drugs or not? If not, I'd like to hear why alcohol is not a drug.
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  6. Seven by esocid · · Score: 4, Funny
    1. Envy- of the artists and their fame.
    2. Greed- self explanatory.
    3. Gluttony- eating and boozing it up with all that cash from those royalties.
    4. Lust- for control and power over the music industry.
    5. Pride- in their "holier than thou" facade as guardians of truth and justice.
    6. Rage- hm, I guess that one is just reserved for everyone who hates the living hell out of the RIAA.
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    1. Re:Seven by Hillgiant · · Score: 5, Funny

      What? No Sloth? (you lazy bastard)

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  7. Re:Why the painfully inane comments today? by ohzero · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you outlaw copyrighted webcasting by making it cost prohibitive, only outlaws who don't care about cost prohibitive copyrighted webcasting will webcast.

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  8. Re:Why the painfully inane comments today? by Foobar+of+Borg · · Score: 5, Funny

    I see nothing but off-topic trolls and insipid banter about deadly sins taken out of context from the description at the top of the page. Not a single comment on the actual article.
    I hate to say this since you have a lower UID than I do but, You must be new here.
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