Cary Sherman RIAA rant: II
p2pnet.net News:- Owned by the Big Four Organized Music cartel, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has turned the lives of thousands of its customers, including children as young as 12, into utter misery, humiliating and harassing them in public and falsely accusing them of being "crooks" and "thieves".
Now RIAA president Cary Sherman weeps bitter tears because he says the ‘trade’ organization is being demonized by "false and incendiary rhetoric".
Here’s what one p2pnet reader thinks about Sherman’s own rhetoric.
If ever an industry deserved demonizing, it is the RIAA. Their campaign to lock up music, to demonize the public, to sue the very customers that they depend on for the financial livelihood, to advance try the cases they bring to court in media prior to even bringing the case to court, and in attempting to do away with the fair use laws are doing nothing to win the very ones they need to bring over to their side to maintain their status.
The fans are the ones that keep them in business and without the spending they do, there is no business.
The public is saying as loud as they can, the only way they can, that they do not agree with how the cartels are wanting to do that business.
No one but the holders want DRM.
No one but the holders want the prices so high for what amounts to vaporware in the form of 1’s and 0’s.
Even more importantly, no one is buying it in the marketplace in substantial amounts; that’s why everyone but Apple is having problems with online music sales. Apples’ case is different. They’re selling music to advertise their main line, the iPod. They’ve developed the niche "coolness" market that keeps them afloat. Others trying to do the same thing are missing the boat. Those such as the Zune will never make it in the marketplace for the same reason the online sites aren’t making it.
No one that buys wants the extras of DRM or rental plans that assure what you buy isn’t yours.
The RIAA is facing the same thing they dished out.
They were the ones to demonize their marketplace and customers and somehow it doesn’t sit well with them?
Well tough titty. The damage is already done and it started as one of their own making.
I have no sympathy for them and their dying off as a business could not happen soon enough for me.
Jordan Glass represents three members of a New York family being sued by the RIAA. He asks:
Do you want to live in a country where it’s acceptable that the federal government and big businesses are notified to protect them from falling in to legal traps, but where individuals are not so protected or warned?
Do you want to live in a country where laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act protect ISPs and the RIAA, but create traps for individuals, in particular those who aren’t technically superior (forget about merely "savvy")?
Do you want to live in a country where you’re legally responsible and liable for the acts of others, when you *can’t know* what they’re doing, and, in the case of computers, where even if you were able to watch, you wouldn’t understand unless you had specific technical training?
Do you want to live in a country where you’re legally responsible and liable for the acts of trespassers whose actions are invisible to you?
Do you want to live in a country where you’re legally responsible and liable for all of the above, when those who control the flow of information have the capacity, capability, power, right, authority, technology, know-how, scientific and technological acumen – and virtually limitless money – are free to ignore the problem they created, and instead place the burden, blame, financial and legal responsibility on people who have neither the right nor the know-how to protect themselves against the problem?
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win ~ Mahatma Ghandi
Also See:
humiliating – RIAA, Santangelo court doc farce, November 3, 2006
harrassing – RIAA: filing cases by the media, November 5, 2006
false and incendiary rhetoric – Cary Sherman RIAA rant, November 13, 2006
CNET News – The farce behind ‘Digital Freedom’, November 13, 2006
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November 14th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
just for laughs
RIAA president Cary Sherman is no so bad. After all he could go for jailing these but he is benevolent and is sparing them:
- Kids with radios at the beach. These are obvious infringers. The beach is a public place and the sound of songs are plain public performances. If RIAA went after the kids with radios, peace will return to the beach.
- Funeral parlors with chappels with organs. Since funeral parlors are for profit (really big), their chappels are not exempt from requiring music public performance licenses as are churches.
- Taxi drivers. Many taxis have radios that play music for the customers. Its all ilegal. With music’s distraction, you can drive the customer five times around the block and they will not notice.
- The armed forces. There are music devices turned on all the time at the battrracks, ships, offices, producing free music for the boys in uniform. Its illegal. Music really reduces the stress.
- Congress. Each office here has devices such as radios, cd players, television which ocassionally provide free music to legislators and their staff. Just to kill the boredom of doing nothing.
- Cruise ships. I know these have no performance licenses for the music they play onboard because they have not yet figured out who will give them a license that is valid in all the countries they dck at, or if they need a license for music played on international waters. Still, RIAA could attack these if the wanted, as no legal logic is required to scare victims into paying.
Note: If you are wondering if I have RIAA’s function of getting money for the artists (really?) and the record companies confused with the collectives function of getting money for the songwriters (really?) and the music publishers, please don’t worry. RIAA and the collectives are more confused than me on the matter.
rv
November 15th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
… have been a contender …..
“Those such as the Zune will never make it in the marketplace for the same reason the online sites aren’t making it. ”
It has one absolutely KILLER feature the IPods and others don’t
have ….
The ability to transfer tunes wirelessly between units.
This COULD have been the reason to switch, but, the cartels
made sure that this would be a useless feature.
No matter what you transfer to a friends zune, It will be DRM
wrapped, ( no choice in the matter ) and EXPIRE after a couple of
days, off the recievers Zune.
It doesn’t matter if it’s free, Creative Commons, or the Author
WANTS it to be shared.
No choice.
Ultimately, the Zunes ultra restrictive DRM will protect it from
being purchased