The RIAA: ‘Just a bunch of bullies’
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- “The Recording Industry Association of America is nothing but a bunch of bullies.”
Who says?
Kevin Peterson, a senior majoring in media production at the University of Alabama.
Sheesh, Kevin. How can you say that?
Don’t you know this is only ‘tough love’ from Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, the “devastated” multi-billion-dollar members of the Big 4 organised music cartel?
Suing people is, after all, only a, “backdrop” for a, “community hemorrhaging jobs, careers and investment in new music, amid a pervasive culture of looting in which there was little understanding of the law or the negative consequences of breaking it”.
At least, that’s what millionaire RIAA lawyer Cary Sherman says. And Sherman always tells the truth. Right?
Posting in the Crimson White, Kevin goes on >>>
It’s not enough that the RIAA is comprised of multi-billion dollar corporations who collectively have a virtual monopoly over the music industry. It’s not enough that their obvious goal is to fill our ears with bubblegum rehash “musical” acts – whose money they take – and force us to pay regular price for the music, as if it’s worth buying to begin with.
No, it will never be enough.
The RIAA continues their nonsense crusade of copyright avenging like some bizarre enforcers of vigilante justice. The RIAA knows no shame and knows no decency.
They have brought lawsuits against college students whom they know will undoubtedly go into debt paying off their absolutely heinous demands of often upwards of $700 per downloaded file.
My head literally hurts as I type this. The fact that we live in a country – a world – where this type of thing can occur is beyond my wildest imagination. The RIAA has even gone so far to sue the elderly, the terminally ill and children as young as 11 or 12.
They have no souls. They are evil, money hungry villains. This is made more evident by the fact that the RIAA generally grants each defendant an opportunity to settle the dispute monetarily.
They don’t want justice, they just want money. More money, no matter how insignificant it is.
If every single person, age 12 and up, in the entire United States of America downloaded an illegal song, and the RIAA was correct in their dumb, unfounded assumption that “every illegal download equals a lost sale,” they would lose about $100 million, maybe?
That’s about what Sony’s music division – the numerous other divisions notwithstanding – makes in downloads, illegal or not, probably in two weeks. Even more quickly than that, if one of its marquee artists releases an album.
That’s probably enough money to buy new windows for one of their fancy skyscrapers. It makes for nothing but a speck of the hundreds of billions of dollars they make as a corporation each year.
Keep in mind that everyone in the United States does not or cannot download songs illegally, so the actual numbers are no doubt a fraction of my example.
The fact that these jackals are willing to ruin a person’s financial stability or even entire life for what amounts to a speck of what their corporations make boils my blood. The fact that these corporations are willing to bring thousand dollar lawsuits against single moms and 12-year-old children, often without any real evidence, just so they can make enough for their CEOs to buy new suits is something that mocks the entire American justice system.
A current case involving the RIAA is one in which the association tried to bully a single mother of five, Patricia Santangelo.
However, the RIAA soon realized they had no case, but they did not drop it. They, instead, proceeded to sue her children.
Does this sound like a group that is concerned with upholding justice?
Maybe I’m the only one who thinks this sounds like a bunch of suits trying to bully people out of their money. If you become a victim of this nonsense, I encourage you to contact a lawyer and discuss your options.
Don’t exhaust your life’s savings on a hopeless case. If you can afford to, fight back like Ms. Santangelo did.
These actions by the RIAA are beyond indecent and something needs to be done.
Also See:
millionaire RIAA lawyer – RIAA lawsuits are ‘tough love’, October 18, 2007
Crimson White – RIAA’s recent lawsuits go overboard, November 2, 2007
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November 5th, 2007 at 8:24 am
What you say is true but what is worse is a system of so called judge, lawyers and law-makers who are paid not by the corporations but by the tax payers who continue taking the side of the corporations in thier cases and so called laws. What would it take to simply vote out every last congressman, senator and judge who is in bed with these corporations? Make a point to find out what your senator or congressman stands for and if he/she is in bed with the corporations push to vote them out. This country is so much in need of a make-over in the form of getting the old farts out of power and put some much needed young blood of OUR generation in.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Enought is enought! I is time to beat the crap out of these parasites and ditches the pieces into a trash can.
Do you know that it has been proven that Vivendi (a piece of Vivendi/Universal) was involving in the traffic of Heroin into the United state with the help of CIAA members?
It is still possible that this traffic continue today since recently an airplane belonging to the CIAA crashed with 3 tons of crack cocaine on board! With the music industry this is the type of low life we are dealing with.
We can not afford to have this kind of company and individuals doing business in our countries folks!
If our governements are not doing anything it is celar that we have to do it.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Or let them wast their time don’t settle wait until they are done and presented you with all the money request the law entitle them to and go BK chapter 7 and they will get zip! Hahahahahahahahaha! All of this for nothing RIAA parasite! Once they claim hundred of thousand of dollars you don’t have of course you BK chapter 7! DeuH!
November 5th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
nothing like the painfully obvious to make your day :p
November 5th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
There is a solution to this but it won’t be easy. Unless there comes a grass roots mandate of removing political cash out of politics. Which is the start. Once that is done, go back to what corporations were before they were given the status of a person. Where they have no political voice, no lobbying powers, and can donate to a politicans warchest.
Without that, there is no hope that any citizen will be able to match the funds which screams louder than the voter over what is good for the country. Our founding fathers of the constitution warned of serveral things to beware of. They were against the very things that are happening today. You can see where a lot of it has gone too. We’re on the verge of economic depression, the money is inflated to where it is steadily losing value, the laws are no longer being made for the good of the country but rather for the good of corporations.
Corporations have all the advantages of a person without benefit of a conscience.
November 7th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
What it would talk is for the bastards to sue the wrong type of person – preferably a trained sniper. I would love to see someone like that kill off a few of their lawyers and executives and post a You Tube video of the event. We are paying $3.50 per gallon for the gasoline we HAVE TO HAVE to get to work and struggle to make ends meet, and all these corporations want to do is figure out how to squeeze yet even more money out of us. We don’t need the ballot box – we need the cartridge box. We need to make the government, the courts, and most of all, the corporations afraid of us!!!