The RIAA have been using illegal means to obtain evidence, they should be subject to the same laws as the rest of us and should face charges.

There is more money being spent today on entertainment than ever. But there’s more places to spend it. If I drop $400 on a PS3, and another couple hundred for games, my music budget will suffer. RIAA (along with Music Lover) seems to ignore this fact. The blame has shifted squarely onto the evil downloader. A typical RIAA lament over this is to point out how the artists are suffering.

The evil downloader has caused a major decline in revenues for artists (as the RIAA has argued). Solution – reduce royalties to artists.

What!!?

LABELS HAVE BEEN TRYING FOR YEARS TO REWRITE CONTRACTS TO ARTISTS AND REDUCE ROYALTY RATES. THE RIAA HAS CREATED AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO THIS. THEY CAN NOW REDUCE ROYALTY RATES TO ARTISTS, AND SHIFT THE BLAME TO ITS CONSUMERS. AND THE SICK THING IS, THEY’LL MOST LIKELY GET AWAY WITH IT.

And you know it, don’t you, “Music Lover”?

Yep! The boycott is working and yep we are causing a lot of damages and yep you have been warned but you decided to laught at our ultimatum when you started suing and extorting innocent people on top of corrupting our gouvernements and our justice system.

Are you ready to surender?

In any case I believe that we should finish you down since after five year of criminal activity you have totally lost your place in our societies.

We are the customers and we decide who get our money and who don’t. We decided once and for all that you don’t. Hopefully you will end up in the street.

Bye Bye parasite!

Maybe you can EXPLAIN how the RIAA has used Media Sentry for their investigations , which HAS NO PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR license! You actually want to call them legit? Not in Massachusetts thy are not! Sorry, you are wrong, period!

And they are not legit in a lot of other states as well. Maybe you ought to think about that, before you go spewing your idiotic ideas about how pure the music industry is!

Or maybe you can explain the fact that they sue people at the drop of a hat based on these clowns “investigations”. Investigations…..that I hope are thrown out of court because they used illegal methods of obtaining information in the first place!

I also hope they get their ass handed to them in court! Maybe this is just the start of a legal defense to bring these clowns down! If they are using an unlicensed investigator, then they should be forced to pay penalties!

If the RIAA break the law, then they should be held accountable. End of story.

I totally understand freethinker’s comments. it’s typical of the anger that’s being vented against a music industry whose antiquated business systems seem to go hand in hand with the kind of thinking trolls like you fart out.

Another typical comment from cretins like you who don’t understand the music business and how it works. Because of the damage your sort are causing they are having to reduce the royalty rates to artists! I’m sure that was the very last thing they wanted to do.

I hope this ends in long jail sentences for extortion for the people at the top of all these corrupt organisations. Bastards.

I think they have pretty much figured out they screwed the pooch with going after the college kids. Instead of forcing them to buy they have instead made noncustomers out of many of them for life. That means the college kids went from the very best of customers to not so hot customers to noncustomers.

The RIAA is the best bad publicity money can buy when it comes to the customer.

Huh, did i missed some leak or did you confused MD with MS here

Artists’ best interests? RIAA presses for lower royalties
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080205-riaa-dima-want-to-slash-songwriter-royalties-for-digital-music.html