RIAA
Let’s Overthrow the RIAA
The RIAA sues 6th graders. The RIAA bullies its artists. The RIAA is why your radio wishes you’d unplug it. Without the RIAA, Britney Spears doing _____ would not be front page news.
But you already knew that. What you might not have noticed is that the RIAA no longer serves any function that we the independent artists and non-idiot listeners can’t provide ourselves.
As a singer/songwriter, I strongly support the ongoing effort to boycott RIAA-affiliated artists.
Update, part deux: Day of Radio Silence
Good news, everyone! The Copyright Royalty Board has pushed back the implementation date of the new rate structure from May 15th to July 15th. There also appears to be a bigger movement organizing over at SaveNetRadio.org
If you're at all interested in this, I urge you go visit http://www.savenetradio.org/. I need to do some more reading to determine whether or not the Day of Silence will go on as planned; I'll mention it in the open thread.
Update: Day of Radio Silence
As I was driving my truck around on teh intartubes this morning, I happened upon this particular internet:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18384667/site/newsweek/
On page three, it mentions that a number of internet broadcasters are planning to go silent on May 8. I guess that means we'd better get our act in gear. The nice thing is that we no longer have to provide the catalyst; it's just a matter of convincing them to do something that a bunch of other broadcasters are going to do. Here's another website I picked up during my drive:
http://www.savenetradio.org/
Here are the stations I plan on contacting:
http://radiok.cce.umn.edu/ - University of Minnesota
http://krlxweb.carleton.edu/ - Carleton College
Day of Radio Silence
Good morning, everyone. Amongst the many things we discussed at last night's meeting was a topic that has been on my mind for the last few weeks. You see, I'm a big listener and supporter of internet radio. I have an iPod that is full of songs, and a music library that dwarfs my iPod; however, I still experience the majority of my new music from internet radio. If a new rate structure goes through, that will all change.
The artists need it more, I guess.
Good thing that there aren't any pressing issues about, like ways to innovate or new, actually talented artists to sell us. Otherwise, the RIAA and its member thugs organizations wouldn't have time to sue people on disability.
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/03/riaa-sues-stroke-v...
Jerks.
Broken Music
As many of you may well know, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA for short) has long made it a practice to troll file-sharing networks, subpoena internet service providers for customer data, and sue people for hundreds of thousands of dollars on grounds of music piracy with often spurious evidence. They have also thrown the concept of fair use out the window, by requiring restrictive and paranoid technologies of third-party software and equipment manufacturers.
All of this is with the intent of controlling what you as a consumer do with your music, so that they can effectively dictate the terms on which you give them your money.