RIAA Mission Statement: amended
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- With the Big 4 record labels firmly behind it, the RIAA has done more than any other organisation to spread the word that mp3 downloading is where it’s at.
It’s turned a geeky thing enjoyed by a few thousand people into a major worldwide phenomenon.
But that’s not its real mission.
There’s one description here, but it’s the abridged version. So to further your education, we present the RIAA Mission Statement Mk II »»»
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade group that represents the vested interests of Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US, but controlled by a Canadian) and their shareholders.
Its principle mission is to:
Help stamp out anything which looks even remotely like competition its owners might some day have to face
Promote files shared as actual sales lost
Gain control of how, and by whom, music is distributed online
Terrorise men, women and young children across the country into becoming subservient consumers of corporate, and only corporate, product
Create an artificial environment in which the labels can with impunity perform outrageous acts against their own customers
Use the mainstream media as corporate PR outlets
Turn American universities into enforcement, sales and marketing divisions financed by school fees and federal and state funding
Suborn US police agencies and judicial systems as corporate copyright cops, funded by taxpayers
Penetrate junior schools to indoctrinate children so they’ll become mindless corporate cash cows
Its members are the record companies that comprise the most venal national music industry in the world.
RIAA members screw each other at every opportunity, retard development of the online music industry, distribute formulaic, cookie cutter ‘product’ sold in the United States and elsewhere, and generally behave like members of an Organised Crime group.
In support of this mission, the RIAA ignores the First Amendment rights of artists; creates false consumer studies, hinders industry and technical research; and initiates state and federal laws, regulations and policies to serve the interests of its masters at the expense of the people who keep them in business.
The RIAA is located at 1025 F ST N.W., 10th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20004.
You can contact them at 202-775-0101.
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November 27th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
This is the result so far:
Help stamp out anything which looks even remotely like competition its owners might some day have to face
FAILED
Promote files shared as actual sales lost FAILED
Gain control of how, and by whom, music is distributed online FAILED
Terrorise men, women and young children across the country into becoming subservient consumers of corporate, and only corporate, product FAILED
Create an artificial environment in which the labels can with impunity perform outrageous acts against their own customers FAILED
Use the mainstream media as corporate PR outlets FAILED
Turn American universities into enforcement, sales and marketing divisions financed by school fees and federal and state funding FAILED
Suborn US police agencies and judicial systems as corporate copyright cops, funded by taxpayers FAILED
Penetrate junior schools to indoctrinate children so they’ll become mindless corporate cash cows FAILED
However the RIAA moron are not total failure unlike Bush because This has been forgoten:
-Puting the companies of parasites they represent out of busness. CLOSE TO COMPLETION.
-Geting themsleves their lawers and the companies executives they represent shoot. IN PROGRESS.
You see, they might succeed in two of their goals after all of their failures! ( out of 11, hoops.)
November 27th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I think that from now on I will call the RIAA: losersVille.
November 27th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Add to the list:
Promote the idea that artists and songwriters benefit in a significant way from the sale of recordings.
Of course the truth is that artists and songwriters must first sign away their compensation rights if they want their talents and their songs used by the record companies. Artists and songwriters must take it or leave it and be blackballed.
November 28th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Right on except the last bolded item shoud be at the top.
November 28th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
You’ve made all these points separately many different times before, Jon, but it’s really shocking to see them all in one place like that, especially the bold bit. Nicely put. I’m gonna keep a permanent link to this post to refer to when I discuss this subject with people.
Damn, if ever this organization sounded like the mafia, it’s now. Ditto for the MPAA and any other media cartel. The world really needs Obama to squash them before they get any worse.
November 29th, 2008 at 2:16 am
One forgotten thing about the RIAA and Directv suits is that they have really sued people they knew were innocent. To use the court to sue someone you knew was innocent is a fraud and a crime. But when the victim of that crime files a report, they are ignored and that crime went uninvestigated violating victim witness protections. When the Justice system ignores the crime victim, then the crime victim has to ignore justice. The next time that crime victim is a Juror, they have to ignore justice through Jury Nullification. When a witness, ignore being a witness. If crime victims are ignored, then crimes will go uninvestigated and more crime will result. Justice has to be be given the message that even victims of a fraudulent lawsuit have to be protected when the playing field is so uneven.
November 30th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Society equipped with modern electronics need hundreds times more entertainment content for same amount of money (spendable income is limited and even shrinking) as before. BIG labels’ point as they lost something due to so called “illegal downloads” is wrong because that money they referred as lost had never existed in the first place.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:20 am
To the Readers Write on Novermber 28th, 2008 at 7:21 pm:
Quite a few people have been referring to the RIAA/MPAA together as
the MAFIAA. It’s pretty much a given that whenever a story about them
shows up on a site, someone will call them by that name. Slashdot, for
example, gets the MAFIAA tag on many stories of this type.
While they haven’t resorted to violence (yet!) to achieve their goals, in
many other ways, the RIAA/MPAA are very much like the mafia. But
unlike the real mafia, the MAFIAA try to influence lawmakers to get
anti-piracy laws passed. The real mafia don’t do likewise with organized
crime, at least not openly.