Who Runs RIAA's Settlement Information Center?

eatonwood writes "Who is behind the RIAA's collections efforts? This comment at CallFerret says it is a company called PSC and lists a bunch of websites and contact information for them, but the connection to RIAA is still not completely clear (aside from the presence of a couple of clearly RIAA sites on the same server as PSC's). Anyone know anything more about who is doing RIAA's dirty work?"

Comments

Re:hmmm.

[jimicus]

Purely out of curiosity, does the US have any equivalent to UK Companies House?

If they were a UK company, you could get a list of directors of both the SIC and various RIAA member companies and their home addresses through Companies House. All you need to do then is see if any names match up.

Obviously this doesn't help if the company has been set up as a totally separate entity with a totally separate list of directors, but it would tell you pretty quickly if Mr. Bloggs (who lives at 9 Acacia Avenue) runs company A and Mrs. Bloggs (who also lives at 9 Acacia Avenue) runs company B.

Re:Bespoke Software and Street Performer Protocol

[evilandi]

To put it another way:

Imagine if bricklayers had to be paid by every person who visited a house they built several years ago.

That would be almost impossible to police.

But it is even more difficult to keep track of people who listen to music or watch video. That's even more difficult to police.

Instead, bricklayers get paid for making new buildings, and not for buildings they've already finished. Equally, artists should get paid for making new art, not art they've already finished.