The Rise and Fall of the RIAA: HBO
p2pnet news view Movies | RIAA:- The Rise and Fall of the RIAA may soon be immortalised in film.
Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s once powerful extortion arm is slowly being relegated to obscurity now its sue’ em all campaign has been replaced by the global Three Strikes and You’re Off The Net scheme.
But now, “HBO Films is developing a movie based on the book ‘Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age’ by music journalist Steve Knopper,” says the Hollywood Reporter, as Zeropaid points out.
“The book covers some 30yrs of the music industry`s missteps beginning with the disco craze back in the late 1970s, through the CD craze of the late 1980s and 1990s, its battle with Shawn Fanning`s Napster in the late 1990s and other P2P applications since then, to the rise of digital downloads replacing physical CD sales,” it says, going on »»»
It should be a good movie to watch if for no other reason than to see precisely how short-sighted and ignorant the music industry really is. Every time a consumer seems to want a product or service its response is automatically no and only has a change of heart when declining sales force its hand.
It was true of digital downloads, streaming music, and DRM.
Add to that the fact that all along the way, to this very day, suing file-sharing customers has been an essential component of its overall business strategy.
Rumours that Danny DeVito will be cast as Mitch Bainwol, with Red Skelton as Cary Sherman, should probably be discounted.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Hollywood Reporter – HBO adapting record biz’s ‘Self-Destruction’, November 2, 2009
Zeropaid- HBO Making RIAA Self-Destruction Film, November 9, 2009
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November 12th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
I wonder how fair use and copyrights will be handled by HBO regarding this flick and its distribution.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Will the music in the film be copyright infringement?
November 12th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
They should try making an entire movie without music entirely. That way nobody can sue.
November 12th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
@Eric:
They should, and subsequently have a scene where people are arrested for humming.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
“arrested for humming”
And they would if they could.
Cheers!
November 12th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Torrent or it didn’t happen!
November 13th, 2009 at 2:44 am
I am so disgusted with the music industry that I cannot enjoy music anymore…..
Great job RIAA, you succeeded in convincing me to stop download music…… and I’ll never give you another cent of my money again.
November 13th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Are they declaring the RIAA/MPAA dead?
November 13th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
“…with Red Skelton as Cary Sherman…”
Cary Kadiddlehopper!
Why not?!
November 13th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I saw “RIP – A Remix Manifesto” on The Documentary Channel just the other night. Now this. These seem to be positive signs of mainstream rejection of the copyright bullies. I’ll be eagerly awaiting it.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
What would you like to bet that a major theme in the latter part of the movie will be how internet piracy is destroying the RIAA? I haven’t read the book, so I don’t know exactly what’s in it. However it’s not uncommon for movies to completely change whole elements of the books they’re based on. It wouldn’t surprise me if they added a huge anti-piracy spin to the film.