I know this may sound strange to some, but this recent move by the RIAA and their fat slug Hilary Rosen is great news! It clearly is an act of desperation. Why would the RIAA want taxpayers to fund this perverse form of law enforcement? For the same reason that the airlines wanted bailout money from the feds and got it, for the same reason that Amtrak wants bail out money from the government now; analogically, because the cyber fight is draining the RIAA, and they want to pass the bill.
It's good to see that cyber citizens everywhere are winning the battle and aren't allowing the RIAA to dictate the terms of this engagement. You see that is what all of this hoopla is about. It's not about the artists (who are suing the RIAA as we speak), it's not about what's best for consumers (who the RIAA considers criminals), and it's only peripherally about copyright (which the RIAA has leveraged to push its real agenda).
This entire sordid affair is partly about greed, but mostly about control; control of the property (which they essentially stole from artists because these idiots bought into a false fantasy of fame and signed their life away) and control of its distribution. The RIAA is a dinosaur; an RIAA/ClearChannel-o-saurus in one turn and an RIAA/recordchain-rex in another.
This monster refuses to accept that times are changing, and it refuses to change with them. There is no legitimate study anywhere that claims net song-swapping hurts RIAA profits. In fact, the only study I've heard of claims the opposite. The RIAA just wants to control how you hear the music they stole, where you play it, and in what format you own it (fair use? haha) so they can greedily suck you dry by any means available to them and their marketing machine.
The RIAA refuses to accept that their customers' needs have changed. That customers need a product and format that can be shared and played on multiple devices. Instead of addressing their customers' needs, like any good service would do (visit a good hotel or restaurant), they choose to alienate them and brand them as criminals.
Also, the RIAA refuses to accept that the product they presently distribute is actually absolute crap that nobody wants to pay for; that label generated bands like Limp Bizkit and fads like the Backstreet Boys really suck eggs and that consumers are recognizing this crap for what it is - pitiful label contrived shill.
In my not so humble opinion, there were only a few new cds released last year worth buying; Tool - Lateralus, Radiohead - Amnesiac, PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea, and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. The rest was crap, plain and simple.
So it's good to see that in this present, the RIAA is resorting to passing the buck; their stubborness and refusal to change with the times will be their demise, and thankfully, that this dinosaur will be extinct before long.
Keep sharing those songs, those files, those movies; and beat that dinosaur until it's dead.
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I know this may sound strange to some, but this recent move by the RIAA and their fat slug Hilary Rosen is great news! It clearly is an act of desperation. Why would the RIAA want taxpayers to fund this perverse form of law enforcement? For the same reason that the airlines wanted bailout money from the feds and got it, for the same reason that Amtrak wants bail out money from the government now; analogically, because the cyber fight is draining the RIAA, and they want to pass the bill.
It's good to see that cyber citizens everywhere are winning the battle and aren't allowing the RIAA to dictate the terms of this engagement. You see that is what all of this hoopla is about. It's not about the artists (who are suing the RIAA as we speak), it's not about what's best for consumers (who the RIAA considers criminals), and it's only peripherally about copyright (which the RIAA has leveraged to push its real agenda).
This entire sordid affair is partly about greed, but mostly about control; control of the property (which they essentially stole from artists because these idiots bought into a false fantasy of fame and signed their life away) and control of its distribution. The RIAA is a dinosaur; an RIAA/ClearChannel-o-saurus in one turn and an RIAA/recordchain-rex in another.
This monster refuses to accept that times are changing, and it refuses to change with them. There is no legitimate study anywhere that claims net song-swapping hurts RIAA profits. In fact, the only study I've heard of claims the opposite. The RIAA just wants to control how you hear the music they stole, where you play it, and in what format you own it (fair use? haha) so they can greedily suck you dry by any means available to them and their marketing machine.
The RIAA refuses to accept that their customers' needs have changed. That customers need a product and format that can be shared and played on multiple devices. Instead of addressing their customers' needs, like any good service would do (visit a good hotel or restaurant), they choose to alienate them and brand them as criminals.
Also, the RIAA refuses to accept that the product they presently distribute is actually absolute crap that nobody wants to pay for; that label generated bands like Limp Bizkit and fads like the Backstreet Boys really suck eggs and that consumers are recognizing this crap for what it is - pitiful label contrived shill.
In my not so humble opinion, there were only a few new cds released last year worth buying; Tool - Lateralus, Radiohead - Amnesiac, PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea, and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. The rest was crap, plain and simple.
So it's good to see that in this present, the RIAA is resorting to passing the buck; their stubborness and refusal to change with the times will be their demise, and thankfully, that this dinosaur will be extinct before long.
Keep sharing those songs, those files, those movies; and beat that dinosaur until it's dead.