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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."
...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)
Chasing down the links leads to this:
http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/02/is-the-.html
But one seemingly knowledgeable but unconfirmed source tells Hypebot that the cuts run much deeper than previously reported.
And not much else. One can hope, but so far this is nothing but a rumor.
There is no -1 Disagree mod. Slashdot.org/faq defines mod options. USE IT.
take this infantile whining to torrent freak or the playground where such anti-corporate whining isnt seen as the transparent bullshit
I don't think we are "anti-corporate" enough in the U.S.A. They've more or less destroyed the economy with short sighted strategies that can't see past a 3 month horizon.
Businesses move jobs over seas. Umm? Who's going to buy your product? The list of offenses is pretty long from exploitation to pollution.
or get a job and pay for music for a change.
Um, I use Linux, where would I buy digital music that plays on my system and has any value? I want it on my home stereo (CD, DVD, or a Linux box) and my MP3 player. (which is not an iPod)
I buy CDs if I really like the music, but I was so disappointed with Gnarles Barkley, one good song on a whole CD, I usually go to the library and borrow CDs.
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.
Same as the old boss. Heh, Just because the RIAA transforms, does not imply that the copyright laws they try to enforce or fight for have changed. Slam them all you want and call'em a failure, as far as I'm concerned this means nothing. When the laws change toward cultural liberation, (like they used to be) only then will I celebrate. Only then.
Blu-spec CDs are just CDs. They hold no more data than a regular CD. The only difference is that the masters are made with a blue laser instead of the standard red laser, which supposedly lowers their error-rates.
Blu-spec CDs are nothing more than a marketing gimmick.
My sig can beat up your sig.
With RIAA Lawyers running the DOJ, the RIAA is transforming into a US government agency.
Now their antics re. DoS'ing suspected torrent sites will not only be legal but an act of the gov't.
Not only will gov't money will be budgeted for catching the file traders, and probably some money from the economic stimulus packages to help bail out the recording industry and encourage innovation, it will be a gov't initiative.
Along with a new and improved patent enforcement department to help make it more cost-effective for companies having difficulty collecting license fees from people infringing on patents like one-click (due to millions of small infringers, and formerly expensive legal processes required to enforce a patent)
What, are they going to go from 'suck' to 'blow'?
Sig? What sig? Do I have to have a sig!?!?
Now I'm not trying to excuse people who download music illegally. It's illegal. I don't do it.
I am so sick of this argument. The RIAA never (as in: not once) sued anybody for downloading music. No matter what they said to the press, 100% of their "filesharing" lawsuits were for uploading. Further, it has never been conclusively established that downloading songs is illegal. In the Napster case, the judge stated that people using a service like Napster had the "effect of piracy". Just because something has the same consequences does not mean it is the same thing. On top of that, it has since been argued -- rather convincingly -- that music sharing increases sales because the heaviest downloaders are also the biggest music buyers.
You can listen to the radio for free. Are you or the radio station doing something "illegal" when you tune in? Are radio audiences "pirates"?
This whole "downloading == theft" thing is merely the RIAA's creation.
All data is speech. All speech is Free.
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.