RIAA Ohio University spin session
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- Ohio University isn’t exactly a shining example of how well a teaching institution can serve and protect its students, and it was recently host to Jonathan Lamy who’s both an RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) spin person and an OU alumnus.
Giving the school to give the benefit of his wisdom, Lamy said the multi-billion-dollar labels are “hemorrhaging jobs and money”.
“Devastated” is another popular word frequently used by RIAA disinformation specialists.
Hundreds of millions of Big 4 dollars money are currently being spent on ferrying the likes of Lamy around the country to try to pass off the bizarre sue ‘em all marketing campaign as a “necessary” educational effort, and on suing Big 4 customers, including students and very young children, into becoming obedient and compliant Big 4 ‘consumers’ .
Five OU students are currently facing lawsuits over their alleged sharing of copyrighted music, the university’s The Post says, also observing more than 100 OU students have received pre-litigation settlement letters threatening lawsuits unless the recipients pay the RIAA $3,500
‘Pre-litigation settlement’ is a euphemism for the extortion aimed at universities across the United States by the Big 4 organised music gang.
OU was at one point the worse hit of the various senior American schools Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG are attacking as part of their innovative student marketing program.
Instead of making a determined stand against the labels, OU totally folded and started spying on its students.
“Starting at 12:01 today (April 27), “the university will begin monitoring its network for P2P file sharing activity and disabling Internet access for computers found in violation of the new policy,” said an OU notice.
“Students sound off to RIAA,” says The Post’s headline. But with the exception of a single quote from a student, all the sounding-off comes from Lamy and RIAA apologists.
The story also quotes CIO Brice Bible as saying the school has squandered close to $100,000 of public money on so-called filtering software, “to reduce file-sharing on its network this year, after the RIAA announced in February that it sent more copyright complaints to OU than any other university nationwide”.
[If anyone snapped a pic of Lamy, we'd appreciate a copy - Jon]
Also See:
The Post – Students sound off to RIAA, October 31, 2007
worse hit – RIAA singles out 10 Ohio students, April 17, 2007
monitoring its network – Ohio University caves in to RIAA, April 28, 2007
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October 31st, 2007 at 9:36 am
‘Giving the school to give the benefit of his wisdom, Lamy said the multi-billion-dollar labels are âhemorrhaging jobs and moneyâ.’
As opposed to before when they were just wasting money?
October 31st, 2007 at 9:46 am
I like the picture
October 31st, 2007 at 9:48 am
Oh, and I forgot. This isnt effective. I keep forgetting that.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:58 am
RIAA rep ^^ please stop these posts. They don’t achieve anything and as I’ve told you before, I don’t have time to keep watching for them. I know they’re meant to be tongue-in-cheek but unfortunately, a lot of people take them seriously and we end up with pointless slagging matches which take attention away from the issues.
Cheers! And thanks …
October 31st, 2007 at 12:15 pm
“Lamy said the multi-billion-dollar labels are âhemorrhaging jobs and moneyâ.
This is what everyone want isn’t it?
Continue the Boycott!
No CD, No paying for down load, no theater tickets, no Brtineyslut, no Metalishit or Madonacrap concert, Nothing!
Not a penny should go to these parasites!
You owe this to your contry!
October 31st, 2007 at 12:19 pm
“100 OU students have received pre-litigation settlement letters threatening lawsuits unless the recipients pay the RIAA $3,500″
Ok!
Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!
This is your settlement money Parasites!
And keep the changes your fuzy animals!
October 31st, 2007 at 12:48 pm
‘…the multi-billion-dollar labels are âhemorrhaging jobs and moneyâ.’
Um, what happened to the horse and buggy business when automobiles took off? What happened to typewriter sales when PCs, word processing software, & printers became available? Obviously music itself is not becoming obsolete. Perhaps a closer look at their business model is in order? Ya think?
October 31st, 2007 at 1:16 pm
They know their business model is weak. No one but no one could miss that.
But face it, the days of the big label $1500 business lunches on the company credit card are over for the big wigs.
Because the labels can’t get it together to sit down and bargain and agree in good faith, they are their own worse enemies. One the public is rapidly learning to hate. The RIAA is steadily giving the music industry including the artists tied to them, a black eye in the terms of public relations.
Every contract, every nuance of change, is seen by the labels as a new oppurtunity to jack the price. No savings are seen passed on the customer. The customer already views the music now sold as far to high for the goods. You can’t hobble the product, reduce it’s quality, and expect the same price or more for less.
With all the bs going on of sue’em all many are just giving up on music. There are other forums of entertainment without the hassle and of more value for the buck. So the labels have shot theirselves in the foot again by turning a whole generation of potential music lovers into at best indifferent listeners and at worse people who will not buy from them under any circumstances.
The unwillingness to hear the market has changed beyond one of their control and to get with the program to discover how to profit on that, is not the markets problem, nor the public’s.
The public is suffering from apathy the lack of exposure to new and quality music. Payolla was directly responcible for the termination as a source of new music from the radio and p2p has taken its place for serious music lovers.
I have no interest in buying 40 year old songs for a higher price than I paid for them at the time they were a hit. Besides, I’ve had enough time to buy all that I am interested in the past.
At present and until things change for the better, I’m on a life long boycott of buying from the labels. Going from thousands of dollars a year to nothing. I’m telling the industry in the only way they will listen I don’t approve of their practices.
Good to hear it is being heard, even though not understood.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Anyone else notice that all tangible goods go down in price year after year? It’s called competition folks, something that should also apply to intangible goods, if the RIAA wants us to treat them the same!. But the much hated corporate music and movie cartels don’t play by these rules. They want to have their cake and eat it. They want intangible objects to be treated the same as tangible (economic scarcity rules suggest otherwise), however, they don’t want to regulated like other monopolies. That’s what antitrust investigations are designed to eliminate. However, governments around the world refuse to acknowledge this. Why you ask? simple, they bride politicans / government officials of all levels.
They are simply put, the worst scum of the earth. It would most certainly be a better place without these middlemen.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Commodore, despite its corporate blunders in the later years of its life before bankruptcy, was very well run in the beginning. When Jack Tramiel realized that calculators and thermostats wasn’t the way to go, he shifted his business over into the realm of personal computers, and at the pinnacle of it all produced the best-selling single model of personal computer ever: the Commodore 64.
Now, if Commodore was like the RIAA, do you think that would have happened? Or would they simply have ended up being permanently a minor player in the calculator biz trying to compete with HP and Texas Instruments?
November 6th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
$100,000 and my torrents still work! hahaha
Good job.