Comments on: Pilloried by the RIAA

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:57:48 +0000

Doesn’t the attitude of the RIAA and MPAA fit pretty well with the mindset today? The current thinking is “grab as much power as you can” and that means forcing people to do stuff even if it is meaningless stuff. 20 years ago the mantra was “have a finger in everything” and that saw the rise and fall of big conglomerates, financial giants like Gulf and Western than ultimatly failed and broke up. Before that is was simply “get all the money you can” and we saw the goofy Gold Parachutes and such. Of course these ideas never die completely but there seems to always be one silly mindset that stands out and suposedly smart government and corporate suits follow it blindly. Isn’t that what Bush is doing right now? And its a repeatition of what some companies did 60 year ago. At one time the phone company was seen as a law to itself. A guy with a toolbelt could practically force his way into your house if you were suspected of having an “illegal extension”. Competition has killed that foolishness and it will eventually kill the current “power graB”. What new sillyness awaits us in the next decade? Might be something even worse. Meantime, these characters can no more stop “file sharing” or “piracy” than they killed “smut” in the 50’s, of recreational drugs, or extra-marital sex or even speeding in your car. Billions of dollars wasted on these hopeless campaigns to alter human nature. Maybe its a necessary part of civilisation and we just don’t know it. Anytime people are asked to voluntarily change their behavior so their lot becomes worse solely for the benifit of an already rich person or organisation the result will be failure.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:12:53 +0000

Ummmm…
Pink Floyd’s Drummer is NICK Mason, not Rick.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:19:10 +0000

Be ready for the artistic big-bang of the 21 first century.. . Without the RIAA!

These parasites businessmen fucked the art in the 20th century! Thanks to them 97% was craps!
Because of them the 20th century was a desert full of rubbish shits marketed to death and monetized to the rope:

stupid lyrics of few words that does not make sense and does not even rime repeated at nauseam
(such as hey, hey, you, you!), stupid rock and rock&roll music made out of 4 notes when luky, with
simplistic rhythms that have more to do with jack-hammering than music, stupid “”Classical”"
by a suck-up such as Pierre Boulez in which we don’t know when the musicians start playing or
when they stop tuning their instruments, stupid abstract painting that represent nothing,
stupid sculpture that look like a drop from a garbage truck, Ugly Building like the world
trade center that from the outside look like a gigantic cage to store chicken!

This is what greed did to the art of the 20th century.

But in the 21th century the artistic big-bang has begun thanks to internet and is likely to at least
equal but probably surpasses even the 19th Century. Thanks to internet the greed is out of the picture and the artists are once again directly in contact with their fans. No more marketing, no more bullshit. Now the people decide and the true artists will trieve.

And you the music cartel you are fucked! We don’t need you!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:35:00 +0000

To Shitman:

Boycott RIAA shit: 20% down!
Take that you piece of crap!
This is for the Santangelo!

Few more yeare and you are gone!

Your turn to go to court. . . the criminal court this time! You criminal!

By: FreedomFighter

FreedomFighter — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:27:03 +0000

As much as I hate the RIAA bastards, I think they are indeed winning. Overall, the fair use arguments and the rights of people are falling on deaf ears and the little is getting successfully trampled on. A few people win against them. The vast majority don’t and meekly pay the extortion fee.

Lets face it, if someone likes a song, they’ll get it, off p2p or on CD or whatever. They are not really gonna give a flying fuck about lawsuits against anonymous people, are they?

And most of the uni’s are in the pocket of the RIAA. They simply fall over themselves to nail their students for the RIAA. Government is obviously the main RIAA sock puppet and more and more, laws and frameworks are being put in place around the world to serve their interests – just look at how allofmp3.com got nailed. The alternatives that have since sprung up are now on the run and the whole thing looks shady to most punters, who will stay away. allofmp3.com was a brilliant opportunity, which the music industry squandered, to force their monopolistic and callous practices on the great unwashed.

I think the new generation will indeed like the music of tomorrow, no matter how crappy it is (and it really is crap already). They will have grown up in the internet age and have been taught that p2p is “bad” and that there are all these nice legal DRM’d music sites they can get shafted on and they will lap it up. They will never have known any of the freedoms which our generation had.

It’s time to stop being in denial people and fight these bastards together as one.