RIAA Now Blames Journalists For Its Piracy Trouble

adeelarshad82 writes "RIAA executives have written a letter to PCMag expressing 'deep disappointment' for publishing an article on Limewire Alternatives. While the article includes a disclaimer from PCMag that it does not condone the download of copyrighted or illegal material, RIAA executives believe that 'PCMag is slyly encouraging people to steal more music.' The letter goes on to ask PCMag to retract the article from their website. PCMag's Editor in Chief has responded to the letter by stating that music industry's charges remain groundless and that it reeks of desperation. He points out that PCMag covers all aspects of technology, which includes the products, services and activities that some groups and individuals might deem objectionable. He defends publishing the article by saying 'We covered these Limewire alternatives because we knew they would be of interest to our readers. We understand that some might use them to illegally download content. We cannot encourage that action, but also cannot stop it. Reporting on the existence of these services does neither.' PCMag has also refused to retract the article."

Comments

What is limewire?

[DemonicMember]

In this day and age if your still using limewire or its alternatives for the majority of your music your doing it wrong.

Re:What is limewire?

[AnonymousClown]

I personally would prefer we just stop using grammar. If the intention is clear then does it really matter?

I don't know.

From your original post:

...your still using limewire ...

My still is using limewire? Dude, what are you distilling? Some sort of lime tequila?

I kid! I kid!

Re:What is limewire?

[guyminuslife]

Wel, akshualii, thiss iz a bout spling, not gramer. Butt I undorstand wie sum pepol dont kair fore standerdiz'd spelingh; Samuel Johnson rilly set uss bak centuryes.

Re:What is limewire?

[Aerynvala]

Damn, I am spending too much time with cat macros. I had absolutely no problem reading that at all. It didn't even slow me down.

Re:What is limewire?

[Aerynvala]

Ceilingcat, his eyes uncovered.

Re:What is limewire?

[countertrolling]

"Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive."

Re:What is limewire?

[Anonymous Coward]

Longcat and Tacgnol at Tenagra.

Charlie Brown and Lucy, at the Football Field.

Re:What is limewire?

[Anonymous Coward]

If we are being pedantic "The Devil is in the detail" is closer to the mark. Or are colloquialisms ok with you?

Re:What is limewire?

[Anonymous Coward]

Umm...so when you say that people should just "realise" it will mean that their posts are less likely to be read by you, does that mean that because you spelled "realize" wrong, that your posts are as badly written as theirs?

My guess? The GP writes using the Queen's English. If you're going to communicate with people using variants of English, it helps to recognize those differences.

RECOGNISE

Ha. Just because I recognize alternate spellings of certain words, and realize that there are variants of the English language, it doesn't mean I have to uze them if I don't want to.

This says it all

[OzPeter]

From the TFA: We wanted to send a direct response to the letter writers, but they failed to include a return address.

Re:What about CD to .mp3 converters and so on?

[JoelWink]

The Sony music division should sue the Sony computer division for putting CD/DVD burners on their Vaio laptops. Sony Music should also sue the Sony media division for selling blank CD-Rs and DVD-Rs.