Here’s the number: 202-775-0101

Please note, I’m not encouraging threatening calls; however, it would be fitting for the man at the helm of the RIAA, who has gone to such lengthts to avoid any contact with the consumers to hear directly from them. Imagine the look on his face with his phone ringing off the hook for days!!!

Happy Calling,
Nev

Wouldn’t that be something? RIAA helps break up America… heheheeh

My father was a rather good composer (http://www.gvenegas.com). After he passed away in 1993 we have discovered many (possibly over 100) of his great songs because music collectors had tapes of them. The collectors had made (and exchanged among themselves) cassette recordings of old 78 and 33 rpm records which are mosly not currently available in CD format.

Almost all the recordings were originally made by record companies that no longer exists.

It is fortunate that the music collectors make and exchange copies of old recordings.

Many of the songs we discovered have already been copyright registered by us heirs. The music collectors saved the music.

Sure, the taping of songs and their exchange among collectors may be technically illegal, but had it not ocurred, the songs would have been lost forever and we would not have any copyrights at all for these collector saved songs.

Surely as copyright owners of our father’s music we could feel threatened by p2p and cd burning, but we must ask ourselves, what is more important, profiting from our father’s music or saving the music? Clearly the latter is more important.

My thanks to the Puerto Rico Music Collector Society. These people, who are labeled as thiefs by the cartels, are heroes that are saving the music of Puerto Rico, that of my father and that of many other composers and performers. I am sure the saving are happening in all countries.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

There is a precedent setting case in California Law, People v. Eubanks, which stated that if a person wanting a prosecution, (RIAA) gives money to a prosecutor’s office, the defendant can have that prosecutor disqualitified from a later case.

This problem, which RIAA and MPAA made for themselves, is that most of the prosecutors were paid off by them, and now have big conflicts of interest, and can’t prosecute.

So, they have to go with civil lawsuits now. They made their own bed, I am glad they have to lie in it.

I haven’t purchased any music since they started with the massive sue ‘em all campaign. The MPAA joined that list when they commenced with the same actions. This may well be a lifetime thing for me, I don’t see them slowing down on the suing people and I for one refuse to support economic terrorism that is being hoisted off as “deterrence”, “educational”, and the standard “For the artist” lines. I can’t see any of those ideas applying to the grandmother of a child who winds up paying for the child’s actions in the form of a payoff.

that’s a great idea. but it’s not up and running yet. you can pre-register, though.

For just 1 month, stop buying cd’s. If you have any music files on your system then move them to a directory that isn’t shared. Don’t download files. Don’t give the RIAA means to make money during the time that no cd’s are purchased.

There has to be a better way and unless the RIAA gets a “slap in the face” to wake up and change its ways then this crap will just continue.

No cyborgs or monkeys?

I would think everyone knows that file swapping by T2 and Bobo represent some of the largest financial drains to the RIAA, MPAA, and the artists.

what are you talking about? haven’t you seen www.p2pfund.com?