I use MP3 tag tools to work on my ID3 tags of every song I own. (about 11,000) There's an option for remove all non-id3 tags that I apply to every file, and sometimes it removes some bytes. Anyone know what this is?
I have to side with SBC on this one. As a former telcom employee, DSL prices were offered a cost to compete with cable. The recent price drops are due to reduced equipment costs.
I find it amazing that the wholesale rate on a T1 line is $50 a month! Customers still pay what $300-500? It's probably cheeper for some companies to set up shop as a CLEC just to buy resold lines for their business.
Competition is a good thing, but some of the regulations are a joke.
Well I gues it hasn't been posted enough, because you still don't understand it. If you read it you would see the artists made about 4K each, but still OWE 14K. So even using "New Math" they end up in the hole.
Following your logic, the artits get paid nothing under Cringley's plan, so they probably wouldn't make any money at it. You better tell Red Hat and the other Linux Distro's about this. Anyone can get their product for free, so how are they ever going to make money from it?
If people like something they will spend money to support it. It may not be as easy as having a Nazzi like group distribute your stuff and take 95%, but it can work.
Your right. It doesn't cost 10 cents to produce a CD. Here's a breakdown of the costs. (http://www.negativland.com/albini.html)
The agent says a band on a major label can get a merchandising company to pay them an advance on T-shirt sales! ridiculous! There's a gold mine here! The lawyer Should look over the merchandising contract, just to be safe. They get drunk at the signing party. Polaroids are taken and everybody looks thrilled. The label picked them up in a limo. They decided to go with the producer who used to be in Letterman's band. He had these technicians come in and tune the drums for them and tweak their amps and guitars. He had a guy bring in a slew of expensive old "vintage" microphones. Boy, were they "warm." He even had a guy come in and check the phase of all the equipment in the control room! Boy, was he professional. He used a bunch of equipment on them and by the end of it, they all agreed that it sounded very "punchy," yet "warm." All that hard work paid off. With the help of a video, the album went like hotcakes! They sold a quarter million copies! Here is the math that will explain just how f**ked they are: These figures are representative of amounts that appear in record contracts daily. There's no need to skew the figures to make the scenario look bad, since real-life examples more than abound. income is bold and underlined, expenses are not.
Advance:$ 250,000
Manager's cut:
$ 37,500
Legal fees:
$ 10,000
Recording Budget:
$ 150,000
Producer's advance:
$ 50,000
Studio fee:
$ 52,500
Drum Amp, Mic and Phase "Doctors":
$ 3,000
Recording tape:
$ 8,000
Equipment rental:
$ 5,000
Cartage and Transportation:
$ 5,000
Lodgings while in studio:
$ 10,000
Catering:
$ 3,000
Mastering:
$ 10,000
Tape copies, reference CDs, shipping
tapes, misc. expenses:
$ 2,000
Video budget:
$ 30,000
Cameras:
$ 8,000
Crew:
$ 5,000
Processing and transfers:
$ 3,000
Off-line:
$ 2,000
On-line editing:
$ 3,000
Catering:
$ 1,000
Stage and construction:
$ 3,000
Copies, couriers, transportation:
$ 2,000
Director's fee:
$ 3,000
Album Artwork:
$ 5,000
Promotional photo shoot and duplication:
$ 2,000
Band fund:
$ 15,000
New fancy professional drum kit:
$ 5,000
New fancy professional guitars [2]:
$ 3,000
New fancy professional guitar amp rigs [2]:
$ 4,000
New fancy potato-shaped bass guitar:
$ 1,000
New fancy rack of lights bass amp:
$ 1,000
Rehearsal space rental:
$ 500
Big blowout party for their friends:
$ 500
Tour expense [5 weeks]:
$ 50,875
Bus:
$ 25,000
Crew [3]:
$ 7,500
Food and per diems:
$ 7,875
Fuel:
$ 3,000
Consumable supplies:
$ 3,500
Wardrobe:
$ 1,000
Promotion:
$ 3,000
Tour gross income:$ 50,000
Agent's cut:
$ 7,500
Manager's cut:
$ 7,500
Merchandising advance:$ 20,000
Manager's cut:
$ 3,000
Lawyer's fee:
$ 1,000
Publishing advance:$ 20,000
Manager's cut:
$ 3,000
Lawyer's fee:
$ 1,000
Record sales:
250,000 @ $12 = $3,000,000
Gross retail revenue Royalty:
[13% of 90% of retail]: $ 351,000
Less advance:
$ 250,000
Producer's points:
[3% less $50,000 advance]: $ 40,000
Promotional budget:
$ 25,000
Recoupable buyout from previous label:
$ 50,000
Net royalty:$ -14,000Record company income:
Record wholesale price:
$6.50 x 250,000 = $1,625,000 gross income
Artist Royalties:
$ 351,000
Deficit from royalties:
$ 14,000
Manufacturing, packaging and dist
Think about it folks. I could get an E-Mail list, spam 10,000 people with porn E-mail. In that E-mail I have a link to an image on my server that I have copyrighted. The image is of doing.
When the user opens that E-Mail, it gets the immage from my server, I capture their IP, and use it to get your name, phone number and address. I then use the net to figure out where you bank, work, etc.
Then I could threated to tell your wife and kids, work, etc. Send me 50 bucks. This is very dangerous. No telling what other kinds of scams organized crime has come up with. I would be surprised if it's not happening today. There is a reason or forefathers came up with a thing called DUE PROCESS!
Another thing, the RIAA is simply hoping to settle with people. There is no way they can go to court on 1,000 cases. This would likely cost $5-10 Million (every 3 weeks @ 300 per week). (Remember they are all over the country which means hiring local attourneys at 200-350 an hour. Then you request everything you can in pre-trial discovery which they have to photocopy at $1 per page. Subpena the Artists named in the suit. There is free legal help available. Search for it. Fight them folks. They are hoping eveeryone gets scared and gives up.
Since the RIAA doesn't make a dime off of used CD sales, it's OK to buy used RIAA members music. Go to a local store or secondspin.com. However, we really recomend you check out things like cdbaby.com or dmusic.com and discover INDE music. There really is some good stuff out there.
Matthew Oppenheim is the lead lawyer for the RIAA. Jonathan Lamy is another legal lackey. Amy Weiss is head of the RIAA Dis-Information Ministry.
If you want to contact the RIAA here is their phone number and address:
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOC OF AMERICA
1330 CONNECTICUT AVENUE NW SUITE 300
WASHINGTON, DC 20036
US Phone number is 202-775-0101 (Apparently this number was copywrighted by an individual who now wants to sue the RIAA for using it)
Here is the board of directors for the RIAA (from www.boycott-riaa.com):
I wanted to make sure everyone understands who is behind the decisions the the RIAA makes. If it is going after users, or going after software companies etc. These are the people who make those decisions. Remember when you buy recordings from the RIAA members you are helping to finance their assault on the copyright laws of this country, on the people who love music, and yourself. Bill Evans
Roger Ames, Warner Music Group Michele Anthony, Sony Music Entertainment Inc. Val Azzoli, The Atlantic Group Jose Behar, Univision Music Group Bob Cavallo, Buena Vista Music Group Ronnie Dashev, Maverick Recording Company Clive Davis, RCA Music Group Tracey Edmonds, Edmonds Record Group Dick Griffey, Solar Records/J.Hines Co. Zach Horowitz, Universal Music Group Don Ienner, Sony Music U.S. David Johnson, Warner Music Group Lawrence Kenswil, Universal Music Group Mel Lewinter, Universal Music Group Alain Levy, EMI Recorded Music Roy Lott, Virgin Records David Munns, EMI Recorded Music Worldwide Antonio Reid, Arista Records Inc. Sylvia Rhone, Elektra Entertainment Group Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, BMG Entertainment Tom Silverman, Tommy Boy Music Andy Slater, Capitol Records Thomas Stein, BMG Entertainment Tom Tyrrell, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.
This list is directly from the RIAA website.
lawmakers who do the RIAA's bidding: Rep. Robert C. Scott Rep. Adam B.Schiff Rep. Bob Goodlatte Rep. Darrell Issa Rep. Ed Bryant Rep. Elton Gallegly Rep. Henry Hyde Rep. Howard Coble Rep. Howard L Berman Rep. James Sensenbrenner Rep. John Conyers, Jr Rep. Lamar Smith Rep. Lindsey O. Graham Rep. Melissa Hart Rep. Ric Keller Rep. Robert Wexler Rep. William L. Jenkins Sen. Dianne Feinstein Sen. Fritz Hollings Sen. Gordon Smith Sen. Joseph Biden Sen. Rick Santorurn
Sensenbrenner,(head of the copyright committee) took an RIAA funded 18,000 trip in Jan of 2003 to Taiwan and Thailand to warn them about copyright. This is Illegal. Learn more about it and write your represenatives requesting an ethics investigation here(webcasters alliance):
http://216.116.171.66/zzformpage.asp
The RIAA is DIRTY! Use the system to beat them at their own game. We out number them about 1,000,000 to 1. Never forget that, write congress today.
(Sorry for the double post, keep forgetting to change the formating.
Matthew Oppenheim is the lead lawyer for the RIAA.
Jonathan Lamy is another legal lackey.
Amy Weiss is head of the RIAA Dis-Information Ministry.
If you want to contact the RIAA here is their phone number and address:
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOC OF AMERICA
1330 CONNECTICUT AVENUE NW SUITE 300
WASHINGTON, DC 20036
US
Phone number is 202-775-0101 (Apparently this number was copywrighted by an individual who now wants to sue the RIAA for using it)
Here is the board of directors for the RIAA (from www.boycott-riaa.com):
I wanted to make sure everyone understands who is behind the decisions the the RIAA makes. If it is going after users, or going after software companies etc. These are the people who make those decisions. Remember when you buy recordings from the RIAA members you are helping to finance their assault on the copyright laws of this country, on the people who love music, and yourself.
Bill Evans
Roger Ames, Warner Music Group
Michele Anthony, Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Val Azzoli, The Atlantic Group
Jose Behar, Univision Music Group
Bob Cavallo, Buena Vista Music Group
Ronnie Dashev, Maverick Recording Company
Clive Davis, RCA Music Group
Tracey Edmonds, Edmonds Record Group
Dick Griffey, Solar Records/J.Hines Co.
Zach Horowitz, Universal Music Group
Don Ienner, Sony Music U.S.
David Johnson, Warner Music Group
Lawrence Kenswil, Universal Music Group
Mel Lewinter, Universal Music Group
Alain Levy, EMI Recorded Music
Roy Lott, Virgin Records
David Munns, EMI Recorded Music Worldwide
Antonio Reid, Arista Records Inc.
Sylvia Rhone, Elektra Entertainment Group
Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, BMG Entertainment
Tom Silverman, Tommy Boy Music
Andy Slater, Capitol Records
Thomas Stein, BMG Entertainment
Tom Tyrrell, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.
This list is directly from the RIAA website.
lawmakers who do the RIAA's bidding:
Rep. Robert C. Scott
Rep. Adam B.Schiff
Rep. Bob Goodlatte
Rep. Darrell Issa
Rep. Ed Bryant
Rep. Elton Gallegly
Rep. Henry Hyde
Rep. Howard Coble
Rep. Howard L Berman
Rep. James Sensenbrenner
Rep. John Conyers, Jr
Rep. Lamar Smith
Rep. Lindsey O. Graham
Rep. Melissa Hart
Rep. Ric Keller
Rep. Robert Wexler
Rep. William L. Jenkins
Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Sen. Fritz Hollings
Sen. Gordon Smith
Sen. Joseph Biden
Sen. Rick Santorurn
Sensenbrenner,(head of the copyright committee) took an RIAA funded 18,000 trip in Jan of 2003 to Taiwan and Thailand to warn them about copyright. This is Illegal. Learn more about it and write your represenatives requesting an ethics investigation here(webcasters alliance):
http://216.116.171.66/zzformpage.asp
The RIAA is DIRTY! Use the system to beat them at their own game. We out number them about 1,000,000 to 1. Never forget that, write congress today.
Matthew Oppenheim is the lead lawyer for the RIAA.
Jonathan Lamy is another legal lackey.
Amy Weiss is head of the RIAA Dis-Information Ministry.
If you want to contact the RIAA here is their phone number and address:
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOC OF AMERICA
1330 CONNECTICUT AVENUE NW SUITE 300
WASHINGTON, DC 20036
US
Phone number is 202-775-0101 (Apparently this number was copywrighted by an individual who now wants to sue the RIAA for using it)
Here is the board of directors for the RIAA (from www.boycott-riaa.com):
I wanted to make sure everyone understands who is behind the decisions the the RIAA makes. If it is going after users, or going after software companies etc. These are the people who make those decisions. Remember when you buy recordings from the RIAA members you are helping to finance their assault on the copyright laws of this country, on the people who love music, and yourself.
Bill Evans
Roger Ames, Warner Music Group
Michele Anthony, Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Val Azzoli, The Atlantic Group
Jose Behar, Univision Music Group
Bob Cavallo, Buena Vista Music Group
Ronnie Dashev, Maverick Recording Company
Clive Davis, RCA Music Group
Tracey Edmonds, Edmonds Record Group
Dick Griffey, Solar Records/J.Hines Co.
Zach Horowitz, Universal Music Group
Don Ienner, Sony Music U.S.
David Johnson, Warner Music Group
Lawrence Kenswil, Universal Music Group
Mel Lewinter, Universal Music Group
Alain Levy, EMI Recorded Music
Roy Lott, Virgin Records
David Munns, EMI Recorded Music Worldwide
Antonio Reid, Arista Records Inc.
Sylvia Rhone, Elektra Entertainment Group
Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, BMG Entertainment
Tom Silverman, Tommy Boy Music
Andy Slater, Capitol Records
Thomas Stein, BMG Entertainment
Tom Tyrrell, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.
This list is directly from the RIAA website.
lawmakers who do the RIAA's bidding:
Rep. Robert C. Scott
Rep. Adam B.Schiff
Rep. Bob Goodlatte
Rep. Darrell Issa
Rep. Ed Bryant
Rep. Elton Gallegly
Rep. Henry Hyde
Rep. Howard Coble
Rep. Howard L Berman
Rep. James Sensenbrenner
Rep. John Conyers, Jr
Rep. Lamar Smith
Rep. Lindsey O. Graham
Rep. Melissa Hart
Rep. Ric Keller
Rep. Robert Wexler
Rep. William L. Jenkins
Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Sen. Fritz Hollings
Sen. Gordon Smith
Sen. Joseph Biden
Sen. Rick Santorurn
Sensenbrenner,(head of the copyright committee) took an RIAA funded 18,000 trip in Jan of 2003 to Taiwan and Thailand to warn them about copyright. This is Illegal. Learn more about it and write your represenatives requesting an ethics investigation here(webcasters alliance):
http://216.116.171.66/zzformpage.asp
I wanted to make sure everyone understands who is behind the decisions the the RIAA makes. If it is going after users, or going after software companies etc. These are the people who make those decisions. Remember when you buy recordings from the RIAA members you are helping to finance their assault on the copyright laws of this country, on the people who love music, and yourself. Bill Evans
Ture, but posting here on slashdot does little to nothing. On the other hand:
If buymusic.com gets 1,000 or 10,000 replys saying, You music is too restrictive, overpriced, locked into the wrong browser/platform, and I won't buy any. Who are they going to tell? The RIAA member companies.
When they don't come close to the sales projections, what will they think? Oh well, it's thoes dam pirates, we need to sue more customers.
Let them know you want to buy music, but on fair terms. Not restrictive, never transfer, gone when a component in your PC fails, DRM files.
That has got to be the funniest video ever. They have this rapper trying to look hip, at one point the screen goes black because everyone steals software instead of paying high prices for it. Guess they never heard of open source.
Then they continue with, buy it, you get great things like...uuummmm.... the warranty card! ooooohhh, and support! You can call any of us up, Really!
Some things never change. "if you want more than one copy, go to the store and buy it. Anything else is like taking it from the store and walking out the door."
Below is a reply I posted to their feeback page found here: http://www.buymusic.com/support/email.aspx (IE Only)
We have to take the time to let them know why they are unable to sell music on the net. Eventually they will have to change or preferrably die. Boycott the RIAA! www.boycott-riaa.com
************
When are you guys going to get it? People don't want DRM restrictions on their music. I recently uninstalled windows media player. The world is moving to open source. I don't have a single WMA file on my network, and I will never have a WMA file on my network. That's not to say I don't support buying music. If you offered UNRESTRICTED 192K MP3s or even better, high quality Ogg files I would consider your service.
By the way, we have found a way to strip DRM using standard MS SDK tools. Read about it here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3517
Since is uses standard tools, it doesn't violate the DMCA. One day the RIAA will learn suing its customers is not the answer. Forcing technological restrictions on its customers is not the answer. Creating un-just ridiculous laws is not the answer. Providing consumers with what they want at a price they are willing to pay does solve the problem. I honestly believe your service will fail.
Why don't they just go after the companies advertising via Spam? To get your money you haev to be able to contact them. Why don't the laws target the companies who use spammers to advertise thier products. Fine the companies, Stop The Spam!
(Oh, and boycott the RIAA too!)
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I use MP3 tag tools to work on my ID3 tags of every song I own. (about 11,000) There's an option for remove all non-id3 tags that I apply to every file, and sometimes it removes some bytes. Anyone know what this is?
I have to side with SBC on this one. As a former telcom employee, DSL prices were offered a cost to compete with cable. The recent price drops are due to reduced equipment costs.
I find it amazing that the wholesale rate on a T1 line is $50 a month! Customers still pay what $300-500? It's probably cheeper for some companies to set up shop as a CLEC just to buy resold lines for their business.
Competition is a good thing, but some of the regulations are a joke.
Well I gues it hasn't been posted enough, because you still don't understand it. If you read it you would see the artists made about 4K each, but still OWE 14K. So even using "New Math" they end up in the hole.
Following your logic, the artits get paid nothing under Cringley's plan, so they probably wouldn't make any money at it. You better tell Red Hat and the other Linux Distro's about this. Anyone can get their product for free, so how are they ever going to make money from it?
If people like something they will spend money to support it. It may not be as easy as having a Nazzi like group distribute your stuff and take 95%, but it can work.
Your right. It doesn't cost 10 cents to produce a CD. Here's a breakdown of the costs. (http://www.negativland.com/albini.html)
The agent says a band on a major label can get a merchandising company to pay them an advance on T-shirt sales! ridiculous! There's a gold mine here! The lawyer Should look over the merchandising contract, just to be safe. They get drunk at the signing party. Polaroids are taken and everybody looks thrilled. The label picked them up in a limo. They decided to go with the producer who used to be in Letterman's band. He had these technicians come in and tune the drums for them and tweak their amps and guitars. He had a guy bring in a slew of expensive old "vintage" microphones. Boy, were they "warm." He even had a guy come in and check the phase of all the equipment in the control room! Boy, was he professional. He used a bunch of equipment on them and by the end of it, they all agreed that it sounded very "punchy," yet "warm." All that hard work paid off. With the help of a video, the album went like hotcakes! They sold a quarter million copies! Here is the math that will explain just how f**ked they are: These figures are representative of amounts that appear in record contracts daily. There's no need to skew the figures to make the scenario look bad, since real-life examples more than abound. income is bold and underlined, expenses are not.
Advance: $ 250,000 Manager's cut: $ 37,500 Legal fees: $ 10,000 Recording Budget: $ 150,000 Producer's advance: $ 50,000 Studio fee: $ 52,500 Drum Amp, Mic and Phase "Doctors": $ 3,000 Recording tape: $ 8,000 Equipment rental: $ 5,000 Cartage and Transportation: $ 5,000 Lodgings while in studio: $ 10,000 Catering: $ 3,000 Mastering: $ 10,000 Tape copies, reference CDs, shipping tapes, misc. expenses: $ 2,000 Video budget: $ 30,000 Cameras: $ 8,000 Crew: $ 5,000 Processing and transfers: $ 3,000 Off-line: $ 2,000 On-line editing: $ 3,000 Catering: $ 1,000 Stage and construction: $ 3,000 Copies, couriers, transportation: $ 2,000 Director's fee: $ 3,000 Album Artwork: $ 5,000 Promotional photo shoot and duplication: $ 2,000 Band fund: $ 15,000 New fancy professional drum kit: $ 5,000 New fancy professional guitars [2]: $ 3,000 New fancy professional guitar amp rigs [2]: $ 4,000 New fancy potato-shaped bass guitar: $ 1,000 New fancy rack of lights bass amp: $ 1,000 Rehearsal space rental: $ 500 Big blowout party for their friends: $ 500 Tour expense [5 weeks]: $ 50,875 Bus: $ 25,000 Crew [3]: $ 7,500 Food and per diems: $ 7,875 Fuel: $ 3,000 Consumable supplies: $ 3,500 Wardrobe: $ 1,000 Promotion: $ 3,000 Tour gross income: $ 50,000 Agent's cut: $ 7,500 Manager's cut: $ 7,500 Merchandising advance: $ 20,000 Manager's cut: $ 3,000 Lawyer's fee: $ 1,000 Publishing advance: $ 20,000 Manager's cut: $ 3,000 Lawyer's fee: $ 1,000 Record sales: 250,000 @ $12 =
$3,000,000 Gross retail revenue Royalty: [13% of 90% of retail]:
$ 351,000 Less advance: $ 250,000 Producer's points: [3% less $50,000 advance]:
$ 40,000 Promotional budget: $ 25,000 Recoupable buyout from previous label: $ 50,000 Net royalty: $ -14,000 Record company income:
Record wholesale price: $6.50 x 250,000 =
$1,625,000 gross income Artist Royalties: $ 351,000 Deficit from royalties: $ 14,000 Manufacturing, packaging and dist
The DMCA needs to get struck down by a court.
.
Think about it folks. I could get an E-Mail list, spam 10,000 people with porn E-mail. In that E-mail I have a link to an image on my server that I have copyrighted. The image is of doing
When the user opens that E-Mail, it gets the immage from my server, I capture their IP, and use it to get your name, phone number and address. I then use the net to figure out where you bank, work, etc.
Then I could threated to tell your wife and kids, work, etc. Send me 50 bucks. This is very dangerous. No telling what other kinds of scams organized crime has come up with. I would be surprised if it's not happening today. There is a reason or forefathers came up with a thing called DUE PROCESS!
Another thing, the RIAA is simply hoping to settle with people. There is no way they can go to court on 1,000 cases. This would likely cost $5-10 Million (every 3 weeks @ 300 per week). (Remember they are all over the country which means hiring local attourneys at 200-350 an hour. Then you request everything you can in pre-trial discovery which they have to photocopy at $1 per page. Subpena the Artists named in the suit. There is free legal help available. Search for it. Fight them folks. They are hoping eveeryone gets scared and gives up.
Pongo,
Since the RIAA doesn't make a dime off of used CD sales, it's OK to buy used RIAA members music. Go to a local store or secondspin.com. However, we really recomend you check out things like cdbaby.com or dmusic.com and discover INDE music. There really is some good stuff out there.
I'de lecture you on the freedoms the people of Iraq now have if your post wasn't so funny.
In the 10 person SW company example the DOJ mentions, I have a question.
Who brought the case to the DOJ's attention?
More to the point, how many cases to the accept from smaller companies compared to large corporations?
No Disassemble! Johnny Five Alive!
Matthew Oppenheim is the lead lawyer for the RIAA.
Jonathan Lamy is another legal lackey.
Amy Weiss is head of the RIAA Dis-Information Ministry.
If you want to contact the RIAA here is their phone number and address:
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOC OF AMERICA
1330 CONNECTICUT AVENUE NW SUITE 300
WASHINGTON, DC 20036
US
Phone number is 202-775-0101 (Apparently this number was copywrighted by an individual who now wants to sue the RIAA for using it)
Here is the board of directors for the RIAA (from www.boycott-riaa.com):
I wanted to make sure everyone understands who is behind the decisions the the RIAA makes. If it is going after users, or going after software companies etc. These are the people who make those decisions. Remember when you buy recordings from the RIAA members you are helping to finance their assault on the copyright laws of this country, on the people who love music, and yourself.
Bill Evans
Roger Ames, Warner Music Group
Michele Anthony, Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Val Azzoli, The Atlantic Group
Jose Behar, Univision Music Group
Bob Cavallo, Buena Vista Music Group
Ronnie Dashev, Maverick Recording Company
Clive Davis, RCA Music Group
Tracey Edmonds, Edmonds Record Group
Dick Griffey, Solar Records/J.Hines Co.
Zach Horowitz, Universal Music Group
Don Ienner, Sony Music U.S.
David Johnson, Warner Music Group
Lawrence Kenswil, Universal Music Group
Mel Lewinter, Universal Music Group
Alain Levy, EMI Recorded Music
Roy Lott, Virgin Records
David Munns, EMI Recorded Music Worldwide
Antonio Reid, Arista Records Inc.
Sylvia Rhone, Elektra Entertainment Group
Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, BMG Entertainment
Tom Silverman, Tommy Boy Music
Andy Slater, Capitol Records
Thomas Stein, BMG Entertainment
Tom Tyrrell, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.
This list is directly from the RIAA website.
lawmakers who do the RIAA's bidding:
Rep. Robert C. Scott
Rep. Adam B.Schiff
Rep. Bob Goodlatte
Rep. Darrell Issa
Rep. Ed Bryant
Rep. Elton Gallegly
Rep. Henry Hyde
Rep. Howard Coble
Rep. Howard L Berman
Rep. James Sensenbrenner
Rep. John Conyers, Jr
Rep. Lamar Smith
Rep. Lindsey O. Graham
Rep. Melissa Hart
Rep. Ric Keller
Rep. Robert Wexler
Rep. William L. Jenkins
Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Sen. Fritz Hollings
Sen. Gordon Smith
Sen. Joseph Biden
Sen. Rick Santorurn
Sensenbrenner,(head of the copyright committee) took an RIAA funded 18,000 trip in Jan of 2003 to Taiwan and Thailand to warn them about copyright. This is Illegal. Learn more about it and write your represenatives requesting an ethics investigation here(webcasters alliance):
http://216.116.171.66/zzformpage.asp
The RIAA is DIRTY! Use the system to beat them at their own game. We out number them about 1,000,000 to 1. Never forget that, write congress today.
(Sorry for the double post, keep forgetting to change the formating.
Matthew Oppenheim is the lead lawyer for the RIAA. Jonathan Lamy is another legal lackey. Amy Weiss is head of the RIAA Dis-Information Ministry. If you want to contact the RIAA here is their phone number and address: RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOC OF AMERICA 1330 CONNECTICUT AVENUE NW SUITE 300 WASHINGTON, DC 20036 US Phone number is 202-775-0101 (Apparently this number was copywrighted by an individual who now wants to sue the RIAA for using it) Here is the board of directors for the RIAA (from www.boycott-riaa.com): I wanted to make sure everyone understands who is behind the decisions the the RIAA makes. If it is going after users, or going after software companies etc. These are the people who make those decisions. Remember when you buy recordings from the RIAA members you are helping to finance their assault on the copyright laws of this country, on the people who love music, and yourself. Bill Evans Roger Ames, Warner Music Group Michele Anthony, Sony Music Entertainment Inc. Val Azzoli, The Atlantic Group Jose Behar, Univision Music Group Bob Cavallo, Buena Vista Music Group Ronnie Dashev, Maverick Recording Company Clive Davis, RCA Music Group Tracey Edmonds, Edmonds Record Group Dick Griffey, Solar Records/J.Hines Co. Zach Horowitz, Universal Music Group Don Ienner, Sony Music U.S. David Johnson, Warner Music Group Lawrence Kenswil, Universal Music Group Mel Lewinter, Universal Music Group Alain Levy, EMI Recorded Music Roy Lott, Virgin Records David Munns, EMI Recorded Music Worldwide Antonio Reid, Arista Records Inc. Sylvia Rhone, Elektra Entertainment Group Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, BMG Entertainment Tom Silverman, Tommy Boy Music Andy Slater, Capitol Records Thomas Stein, BMG Entertainment Tom Tyrrell, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. This list is directly from the RIAA website. lawmakers who do the RIAA's bidding: Rep. Robert C. Scott Rep. Adam B.Schiff Rep. Bob Goodlatte Rep. Darrell Issa Rep. Ed Bryant Rep. Elton Gallegly Rep. Henry Hyde Rep. Howard Coble Rep. Howard L Berman Rep. James Sensenbrenner Rep. John Conyers, Jr Rep. Lamar Smith Rep. Lindsey O. Graham Rep. Melissa Hart Rep. Ric Keller Rep. Robert Wexler Rep. William L. Jenkins Sen. Dianne Feinstein Sen. Fritz Hollings Sen. Gordon Smith Sen. Joseph Biden Sen. Rick Santorurn Sensenbrenner,(head of the copyright committee) took an RIAA funded 18,000 trip in Jan of 2003 to Taiwan and Thailand to warn them about copyright. This is Illegal. Learn more about it and write your represenatives requesting an ethics investigation here(webcasters alliance): http://216.116.171.66/zzformpage.asp The RIAA is DIRTY! Use the system to beat them at their own game. We out number them about 1,000,000 to 1. Never forget that, write congress today.
Matthew Oppenheim is the lead lawyer for the RIAA. Jonathan Lamy is another legal lackey. Amy Weiss is head of the RIAA Dis-Information Ministry. If you want to contact the RIAA here is their phone number and address: RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOC OF AMERICA 1330 CONNECTICUT AVENUE NW SUITE 300 WASHINGTON, DC 20036 US Phone number is 202-775-0101 (Apparently this number was copywrighted by an individual who now wants to sue the RIAA for using it) Here is the board of directors for the RIAA (from www.boycott-riaa.com): I wanted to make sure everyone understands who is behind the decisions the the RIAA makes. If it is going after users, or going after software companies etc. These are the people who make those decisions. Remember when you buy recordings from the RIAA members you are helping to finance their assault on the copyright laws of this country, on the people who love music, and yourself. Bill Evans Roger Ames, Warner Music Group Michele Anthony, Sony Music Entertainment Inc. Val Azzoli, The Atlantic Group Jose Behar, Univision Music Group Bob Cavallo, Buena Vista Music Group Ronnie Dashev, Maverick Recording Company Clive Davis, RCA Music Group Tracey Edmonds, Edmonds Record Group Dick Griffey, Solar Records/J.Hines Co. Zach Horowitz, Universal Music Group Don Ienner, Sony Music U.S. David Johnson, Warner Music Group Lawrence Kenswil, Universal Music Group Mel Lewinter, Universal Music Group Alain Levy, EMI Recorded Music Roy Lott, Virgin Records David Munns, EMI Recorded Music Worldwide Antonio Reid, Arista Records Inc. Sylvia Rhone, Elektra Entertainment Group Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, BMG Entertainment Tom Silverman, Tommy Boy Music Andy Slater, Capitol Records Thomas Stein, BMG Entertainment Tom Tyrrell, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. This list is directly from the RIAA website. lawmakers who do the RIAA's bidding: Rep. Robert C. Scott Rep. Adam B.Schiff Rep. Bob Goodlatte Rep. Darrell Issa Rep. Ed Bryant Rep. Elton Gallegly Rep. Henry Hyde Rep. Howard Coble Rep. Howard L Berman Rep. James Sensenbrenner Rep. John Conyers, Jr Rep. Lamar Smith Rep. Lindsey O. Graham Rep. Melissa Hart Rep. Ric Keller Rep. Robert Wexler Rep. William L. Jenkins Sen. Dianne Feinstein Sen. Fritz Hollings Sen. Gordon Smith Sen. Joseph Biden Sen. Rick Santorurn Sensenbrenner,(head of the copyright committee) took an RIAA funded 18,000 trip in Jan of 2003 to Taiwan and Thailand to warn them about copyright. This is Illegal. Learn more about it and write your represenatives requesting an ethics investigation here(webcasters alliance): http://216.116.171.66/zzformpage.asp
I wanted to make sure everyone understands who is behind the decisions the the RIAA makes. If it is going after users, or going after software companies etc. These are the people who make those decisions. Remember when you buy recordings from the RIAA members you are helping to finance their assault on the copyright laws of this country, on the people who love music, and yourself.
Bill Evans
Roger Ames, Warner Music Group
Michele Anthony, Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Val Azzoli, The Atlantic Group
Jose Behar, Univision Music Group
Bob Cavallo, Buena Vista Music Group
Ronnie Dashev, Maverick Recording Company
Clive Davis, RCA Music Group
Tracey Edmonds, Edmonds Record Group
Dick Griffey, Solar Records/J.Hines Co.
Zach Horowitz, Universal Music Group
Don Ienner, Sony Music U.S.
David Johnson, Warner Music Group
Lawrence Kenswil, Universal Music Group
Mel Lewinter, Universal Music Group
Alain Levy, EMI Recorded Music
Roy Lott, Virgin Records
David Munns, EMI Recorded Music Worldwide
Antonio Reid, Arista Records Inc.
Sylvia Rhone, Elektra Entertainment Group
Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, BMG Entertainment
Tom Silverman, Tommy Boy Music
Andy Slater, Capitol Records
Thomas Stein, BMG Entertainment
Tom Tyrrell, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.
This list is directly from the RIAA website.
BOYCOTT THE RIAA (www.boycott-riaa.com)
Ture, but posting here on slashdot does little to nothing. On the other hand:
If buymusic.com gets 1,000 or 10,000 replys saying, You music is too restrictive, overpriced, locked into the wrong browser/platform, and I won't buy any. Who are they going to tell? The RIAA member companies.
When they don't come close to the sales projections, what will they think? Oh well, it's thoes dam pirates, we need to sue more customers.
Let them know you want to buy music, but on fair terms. Not restrictive, never transfer, gone when a component in your PC fails, DRM files.
That has got to be the funniest video ever. They have this rapper trying to look hip, at one point the screen goes black because everyone steals software instead of paying high prices for it. Guess they never heard of open source.
Then they continue with, buy it, you get great things like...uuummmm.... the warranty card! ooooohhh, and support! You can call any of us up, Really!
Some things never change. "if you want more than one copy, go to the store and buy it. Anything else is like taking it from the store and walking out the door."
At least the rapper can do the running man.
Below is a reply I posted to their feeback page found here: http://www.buymusic.com/support/email.aspx (IE Only) We have to take the time to let them know why they are unable to sell music on the net. Eventually they will have to change or preferrably die. Boycott the RIAA! www.boycott-riaa.com ************ When are you guys going to get it? People don't want DRM restrictions on their music. I recently uninstalled windows media player. The world is moving to open source. I don't have a single WMA file on my network, and I will never have a WMA file on my network. That's not to say I don't support buying music. If you offered UNRESTRICTED 192K MP3s or even better, high quality Ogg files I would consider your service. By the way, we have found a way to strip DRM using standard MS SDK tools. Read about it here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3517 Since is uses standard tools, it doesn't violate the DMCA. One day the RIAA will learn suing its customers is not the answer. Forcing technological restrictions on its customers is not the answer. Creating un-just ridiculous laws is not the answer. Providing consumers with what they want at a price they are willing to pay does solve the problem. I honestly believe your service will fail.
Why don't they just go after the companies advertising via Spam? To get your money you haev to be able to contact them. Why don't the laws target the companies who use spammers to advertise thier products. Fine the companies, Stop The Spam! (Oh, and boycott the RIAA too!)