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p2p2pnet news | RIAA News:- RIAA Marketing 101 —- How to force your owners’ customers to buy ‘product’:
Hound them. Harass them. Label them ‘criminals’ and ‘thieves’. Call them liars. Humiliate them in the mainstream media every chance you get.
That’s The Big 4 Way, the Big 4 being Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, the venal members of the organised music gang.
As a continuation of Stage II of their bizarre sue ‘em all marketing and sales plan, the labels have set their RIAA loose on a new batch of students at universities across the country.
Under what the RIAA’s Clara Duckworth has actually been quoted as calling “cool new legal services,” they’re using staffs and administrations —- funded not by the corporate music industry, but by taxpayers —- to serve extortion letters to students, trying to hit them for upwards of three thousand dollars each.
Come through with a payment, buy our product from one of the corporate ’services’ we’ve shoehorned into your schools, and you’ll be safe, they say.
No wonder the RIAA people figure they’ve scored.
But far from protecting the students from a possible civil court appearance, the data might well be used against them sometime in the future —- and the RIAA hasn’t had to do a thing. Schools staffs have done it for them.
However, what’s being heavily promoted by the Big 4 as a huge success in reality means absolutely nothing.
Some 5,500 students had been served?
So what?
The US Census Bureau Back to School: 2006-2007 was projecting 7,600,000 [our emphasis] students would be enrolled in American colleges and universities by that fall.
Hmmm —- 5,500 from 7,600,000. Let’s see, now, that leaves ……. So by the year 3,000 …..
In other words, it’s game over. Long over.
Meanwhile, of the present batch, “Formal lawsuits have been filed against 2,465 letter recipients,” says the RIAA pompously, going on:
“These individuals either disregarded settlement opportunities or were not given the option to settle early because the university failed to forward the letters.”
Oh. So it’s the universities’ fault.
Meanwhile, says Duckworth in yet another outrageous distortion, “The exponential growth of illicit peer-to-peer has stabilized”.
But she does get part of it right, going on, “music lovers know what they can and can’t do when getting music online”.
They do indeed, which is why they continue to massively ignore the overpriced, low quality offerings touted by Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG in favour of downloads from the free P2P networks and mushrooming numbers of independent sites and services.
US schools singled out in the latest attack against an American students include Boston University, Columbia University, Drexel University, Indiana University, North Carolina State University, Ohio State University, Purdue University, Tufts University, University of Maine System, University of New Hampshire, University of Southern California, and the University of Virginia.
Well done, the RIAA, and well done, Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG.
Also See:
cool new legal services - RIAA with Don Reisinger: read, weep, January 15, 2008
Times Online - YouTube cut off over offensive cartoons, February 25, 2008
caricatured Mohammed - New Mohammed image controversy, February 11, 2008
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February 25th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Gah sometimes it just feels like none of this stuff is real, because its just so demented 0_0!!!
February 25th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
“Hound them. Harass them. Label them ‘criminals’ and ‘thieves’. Call them liars. Humiliate them in the mainstream media every chance you get.”
And get yourself killed out of business. Is it in their manual too?
February 25th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
The most despised industry (although that term is subjective, as only a handful of companies constitute it) that ever existed.
There is one grace to all this, and that is the exposure of governments as corrupt puppets, controlled by the highest bidder (in this case, the copyright industry). We are now aware of who really runs the country.
I supplicate all to reject these governments and refuse to vote in elections. By voting in elections you reinforce the validity of their actions, and empower them in the continuation of oppressive copyright legislation.
February 27th, 2008 at 12:58 am
For cryin’ out loud, drop the political tones and deal with the real issue(s). RIAA and MPAA are a couple of anal retentive control freaks who don’t like being in the wrong. And they will die or drown in bankruptcy to defend their - wrongness.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
they target the people with the least money, college kids dont have the cash to shell out for legal music, stealing it is the only way sometimes.