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RIAA Denies Hypocrisy in Royalties Dustup
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.'"
This might be offtopic, but I'm willing to risk it. There are now fourteen deadly sins.
Article here.
Mgr Girotti named the new mortal sins to be (1)genetic modification; (2) human experimentations, (3) polluting the environment; (4) social injustice; (5) causing poverty; (6) financial gluttony; and (7) taking drugs.So, let's see. The RIAA is certainly guilty of the new 4, 5, and 6. They're also guilty of 3 if you count noise pollution from crappy manufactured pop bands. And probably 7, I think that's pretty much a given too if you read any of their justifications on their behavior.
So, all they have to do is clone Lance Bass and they'll have a hat trick on the new list.
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rediculous.
Traditional or revised list?
... I dunno ... the Pope? Oh yeah, he gets to fake out God by telling him he's personally living a vow of poverty...it's the church that puts him up in his fine palatial rooms, with his fancy clothes, fancy hat, wine, meals, pope-mobile, personal jet, etc etc. For that matter, what is "obscenely wealthy" and who gets to decide? To be safe, guess we'd all better opt for poverty, and head-butt the economy even further.
Presumably they are running afoul of New Deadly Sin's numbers 4, 5, 6, and perhaps 7 (see below)
The new deadly sins are:
1.) genetic modification
better get rid of rice, and just about every other staple in our diet. All are the result of selective breeding (i.e. GM) over hundreds of
years. Oh, and shoot the dog.
2.) carrying out experiments on humans
Every psychology experiment, every modern medicine, you name it,you're going to hell!
3.) polluting the environment
We're all doomed. Doomed! Guess we'd better all go live in a shack like the unabomber.
4) causing social injustice
Like say, stripping women of their right to choose whether or not to carry a child inside their body? Whose idea of social injustice shall we use. Karl Marx's? George W. Bush's? The "Pedophile Two-step Shuffle" Pope's?
5.) causing poverty
How exactly? By tithing the faithful, or encouraging couples to have too many children, or denying women access to birth control and abortion? By mismanaging national monetary policy, devaluing the currency, inciting a housing bubble, followed by a housing collapse and mortgage crisis?
6.) becoming obscenely wealthy
Like say
7.) taking drugs
Better put those aspirin away! Anyone with health problems, tough shit. Die! And you mentally ill folks on your anti-psychotics, put down the pill bottle, get out there and go on a killing spree! After all, murder isn't one of the Deadly sins, but by God, taking your medication is!
Presumably they are running afoul of New Deadly Sin's numbers
(Anyone who still believes in religion in general, and Catholicism in particular, after the Vatican puts out this kind of silliness needs their head examined).
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You could say the same thing if you constantly had a low level of, say... caffeine in your body. *Caffeine is very normal in my bodily functions.
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