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RIAA About to Transform?
It has been reported for a while that the RIAA was suffering some cutbacks and dwindling support, but techdirt is reporting that the cuts may be even deeper than most originally suspected. Who knew suing potential customers would ruin your business? "I'm sure some will somehow 'blame piracy' for this turn of events, but it's hard to see how that's even remotely the issue. The real issue is that the RIAA has basically managed to run one of the dumbest, most self-defeating strategies over the last decade. Rather than helping major record labels adjust to the changing market, it continually, repeatedly and publicly destroyed its own reputation and the reputation of the labels — each time shrinking their potential market by blaming the very people they should have been working to turn into customers."
TERRORIZE!!!
...a Z Transform, a Laplace Transform or a Fast Fourier Transform?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I do, however, once RIAA is dead and buried, intend to dig them up once a year on the anniversary of their death just to make sure they're still dead.
Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
Slashdot broken?
With that low user ID, you should have figured this out a long time ago.
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Maybe it will involve skinning puppies or pulling the horns off unicorns? Perhaps ripping the wings from butterflies? There must be and endless supply of ideas for the RIAA, given all their experience.
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Does this mean the RIAA is more than meets the eye?
The musings of just another geek and his junk.
What, are they going to go from 'suck' to 'blow'?
Sig? What sig? Do I have to have a sig!?!?
No way! People willing to work for such an ethical and forward thinking organization would have more loyalty to each other.
Then, let us all hope for the sake of the families involved that the MafiAAs do not make them mysteriously disappear.
"The RIAA has announced a new severance package . . ."
All data is speech. All speech is Free.
Left arm: MPAA
Right arm: IFPI
Left leg: SPA
Right leg: BSA
Torso: RIAA
Head: DMCA
Combined: WTMGDL! (Way too many god damned lawyers)
Hmm, any other suggestions for the copyright megacronym? :)
"The RIAA has announced a new severance package . . ."
I think its dubbed "Head and Shoulders"... er no that's a shampoo... "Head from Shoulders"!
Well I would imagine the excess employees will be much in demand as witnesses.
We've always known when it comes to the RIAA there's more than meets the eye, but witnesses would truly help expose their deceptive cons.
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
It is, but only with the second pair of cheeks.
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
I dunno if I'd call their mission a complete failure...
Well I always admire an independent thinker who's willing to go out on a limb and espouse a thought that no one else agrees with.
You've certainly established your credentials.
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
like a horse head in a bed....except with people!
http://xkcd.com/546/
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