/Ryan

Better to help fund the cases already being fought, so that just MAYBE one
will OPENLY come to a precedent setting judgement against the RIAA members.

We don’t have their resources, it makes more sense to focus what little we have in
a more concentrated area.

Continuing on thta theme, buy up ads in papers and use those printers and make flyers about the dead people they sued, the laid up in hospital woman htey sued, and so on.

PUSH BACK AND HURT THEM, a bad economy means they don’t have the money any more to FIGHT back.
NOW is the time.

Perhaps we could trust Michael Geist with such a fund?

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/28/ctv-losses.html#socialcomments

seems the conservative money base is drying up slowly, and they aren’t going to have a media empire to support there garbage much longer. The recession will pull them apart and with corporations not able to give more then 1000$ that is a great feeling.

In the US we can also all sue them at the small claim court for the max allowed. if 10 of thousand of people do this it will cost them a fortune just to send someone.

If they don’t show up they lose the case and have to pay and this will cost even more!

CONTINUE THE BOYCOTT!

Nobody settle with these parasites, nobody buy CD or DVD or go to the theater.

No money should go to these criminals.

And prepare to raid the properties of the executive parasites. We need the money to compensate the victim.

Bring your pest killer!

(We are already doning this. But Shutttt!)

Doesn’t it just give your heart a little joyful flutter to hear such good news for those that do deserve it?

What’s so sad about all this, is it never had to be this way. But the majors know greed and nothing else. Could have been that they granted license to Napster back in the day. Just think how much income they would have made today had they, even charging just 5¢ a download would have brought them a fortune they don’t have today. During that time, P2P groups would have given their left nut to have been legally licensed to continue what they were doing. But the majors just couldn’t see any other way than being an a$$hole about things. Well, that part hasn’t changed today. What has changed is the world around them. They have woken up to the idea that money just isn’t flowing in like it used to.

They have managed to alienate the very people they depend on for their livelihood. There is no longer the interest there was back in the heyday with music. People don’t hear new music all the time any more through the commercial outlets. Instead they hear the same old pap gone through for the umpteenth time for the day on an hourly basis. The music is now bland. The artists no longer connect to their audience like they used to. Was a time when you felt a connection to the artist through what they were trying to say. It meant something to you.

All that is dead now. People no longer line up in front of record stores for block length lines to obtain that newest release and for the ability to say they had it first. Music is no longer worth the money when it goes through the corporate channels to reach them at the high prices for the little that is on a new album. Its so bad they can’t hardly sell albums anymore. They’ve filled the album with filler until finding an album with three good songs on it is a challenge to do. Who wants that?

I can remember the time of concept albums when there was a theme running through the album that tied all the songs together into a complete work. There was experimentation, there was a fresh look to each new album. It wasn’t more of the same. Artists don’t seem to be growing any more. It’s like they lack the originality that was there during the heydays. Covers are a big thing now. What that tells me is that they don’t have the spark to drive that originality and are depending on the fame of recognition to drive the sale, not the skill of something new standing on it’s own to make it’s own way.

With this lack, are others that were cut in the effort to funnel more money into the pockets of the majors. Things like the large artwork. I can’t tell you how many times I stood in front of mind boggling artwork and that alone convinced me to try something new. I somehow just can’t connect with it on the small digital artwork. Go ahead and dig out the magnifying glass and maybe you can see up close what they have in the image.

Artists are no longer groomed to be acts that will last. All that got dropped. With that dropping came the lack of care about artists and part of the reason why they have no long term life on the hit list.

But hey, this is great news to hear there are major layoffs with the RIAA. Now for the rest of them to crater if they can’t sit down and figure out what the customer has been telling them with their wallets.

Yes Yes we all know, you prefer to ‘rent’ music from that service you
have a stake in.

After all, no one tells YOU what to do

I knew some good must come from this economic armageddon that is hitting the world.