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The RIAA Says 1500 Streams = 1 Album Sale (riaa.com)
AmiMoJo writes: The RIAA is modernizing its gold and platinum album certifications to include streaming. An album must reach 500,000 sales to go gold, 1,000,000 for platinum and 2,000,000 for multi-platinum. The RIAA set the new Album Award formula of 1,500 on-demand audio and/or video song streams = 10 track sales = 1 album sale. Also effective today, RIAA's Digital Single Award ratio will be updated from 100 on-demand streams = 1 download to 150 on-demand streams = 1 to 'reflect the enormous growth of streaming consumption'.
It's not bad for a technology that they tried to ban once.
How does this add up with 1 illegal download = 1 missed sale?
Let's find a shitty new song and automate streaming requests for it.
United Slashdotters could push a piece 'o' crap album to multi-platinum in like, what, 5 days?
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
"C'mon guys, we are still relevant! See?"
Proverbs 21:19
When the riaa shares the artist's work 1500 times, that's one album sale for the artist.
When you share the artist's work once - even if it was never download - that's a grand jury indictment, $250,000 per copy, plus lawyer fees....
The society for a thought-free internet welcomes you.
Streaming is worth a tenth of a cent when we're asked to pay royalties, but a million bucks when we're suing you and twisting your ISP's arm.
Ooh, moderator points! Five more idjits go to Minus One Hell!
Delendae sunt RIAA, MPAA et Windoze
Poor Jethro Tull and Edge of Sanity!
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Get stuffed RIAA and your ilk. The only IP right I recognize is the right of citation. Given that assumption, I can only view your organization as a leach on society, using your might to steal our knowledge and culture away from us. Your unjust laws that were foisted upon us are working for now, but your days are numbered. Every day there is one more like me, and one less like you. It won't be long until your laws are ignored entirely. What will you do then? Arrest us all? No, you must adapt into an entity that provides an actual value to society or risk becoming irrelevant, just like the rest of us. I wish you luck in your incredible journey.
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This is just an announcement of an update to how they weight their stats, of some interest to those who care about sales figures and the like. Not everything the RIAA does has to be evil or malicious. Sometimes they're just running a record industry association.
Matthew 5:28 "but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
To think about a song means you have listened and the execs require payment. Just leave your credit card at the door.
Silence is a state of mime.
Will they use this standard for fighting piracy? 15,000 streams from a site = one $11.99 album sale lost?
Tom Green proved that in a heartbeat with "Lonely Swedish" (Bum Bum Song) in spades back in 1999.
In fact, it was so effective that MTV was called out on their TRL (the "L" is for live) show not actually being live.
In a world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king--and the two-eyed man is a heretic.