Has SE’s Dick Huey gone missing?
p2pnet news view | music:- Lover of untrammelled music and well-known entertainment lawyer Fred Wilhelms has, of late, been engaged in a fascinating online discussion with (un)SoundExchange board member and Toothshed owner Dick Huey.
The subject? What else? Online radio royalties.
“SE’s been throwing around the ‘transparent’ word for a while during this whole fracas,” says Alant in a comment post to the most recent p2pnet item, going on:
… and you know what? It’s time they pony up on this one.
Show us a full accounting on SE’s incoming collections and outgoing disbursements, salaries, and the logic behind a random 200-artist list of royalty payments. And while they’re at it, break down how much they’ve spent on lobbying and litigation as opposed to, say, paying employees to find all these ‘lost’ artists they’ve got listed on their site.
If they’re collecting the data, they ought to be able to back their numbers, right? If SE wants to prove it isn’t just a big black box, then it’s time to cough up some numbers – and back it with data. And it’s about time artists groups started calling for the same.
Huey first misidentified Wilhelms and then got his name wrong, ultimately promising to get back to Fred in detail, although he admitted it might take a while.
That was on July 5 and so far, that’s all he wrote.
Now, “Where have you gone?” – wonders Wilhelms, going on >>>>>>>>>>
I’ve been to the supermarket to see if your picture is on the milk cartons. It isn’t.
I asked the police to issue an Amber Alert, but they tell me they limit those announcements to cases where people are completely missing, and not just where they are missing their integrity and honesty. One cop suggested that you weren’t missing at all; and that the RIAA had just forgotten where they put you.
Was your appearance on p2pnet just a SoundExchange sanctioned attempt to stop public discourse of the ruinous effect of the CRB rates and exposure of the sham “artist-friendly” poses by SoundExchange by making a personal attack against someone raising those issues? In that case, “mission accomplished,” Mr. Huey. The RIAA is probably quite proud of you. What did you get out of doing their dirty work? I hope you held out for a promise that you could sit on another panel with the big kids sometime. You earned that, even if it turns out that the RIAA rep on the panel is making your lips move.
Or have your minders decided to keep you from an Internet connection so that you don’t make a bigger fool of yourself by making more misstatements that expose the disparity between what SoundExchange says it does and what SoundExchange actually does? Is there a witness protection program for RIAA dupes, fools and liars who have outlived their usefulness? If so, I wish you luck with your new identity.
You said you were going to do your best to answer questions put to you. On a broad scale, silence is better than promulgating more misinformation, I guess.
Well, your “best” is just what I have come to expect from SoundExchange; a promise made, and a promise broken. You’ve lived up to the expectations I have developed from dealing with SoundExchange.
John Simson made a promise to discuss SoundExchange policies and procedures on Velvet Rope. When he was exposed giving misinformation in his initial post, he never returned. You turned out no more up to the task than he was.
At least Simson’s drawing well over two hundred thousand dollars a year, plus fringe benefits, to run away from a conversation he said he wanted. I guess you’re doing it just for the pure glory of being able to say you are a SoundExchange director. Looking like a hapless tool in the process is just a dividend.
Fare thee well, Dick Huey. You will not be missed. I am sure SoundExchange will find someone to continue disseminating bad information about the organization and blindly attacking anyone who points out the logical and factual flaws in what SoundExchange says it does. No, you will not be missed, and neither will your slanders, your misstatements, and your outright lies. The discussion of these issues is improved simply by your absence.
There will always be a light in the window for you and a seat by the fire. I can only hope that in your wanderings (if they ever let you off the very short RIAA leash) you stumble across the truth, and actually recognize it for what it is. I suspect, however, you won’t know what it is even if it bites you in the ass.
Fare thee well, Dick Huey! You were proven a liar and now it turns out that you are a coward as well. No wonder the RIAA hand-picked you to represent “independent” labels at SoundExchange.
Fare thee well, Dick Huey, and bon voyage! Don’t take any wooden royalties.
Fred Wilhelmns – p2pnet
Also See:
get back to Fred – SoundExchange`s Huey to Wilhelms , July 5, 2007
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July 13th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Anybody notice how his name is DICK Huey?