RIAA and public radio

Ugh, as usual the RIAA succeeds in pissing everyone off. I noticed this since Pandora put up a notice saying to write your congressperson :|
 
You know, I hope they do get this through and all our radio stations have to pay royalties (I think this is just for public radio, like NPR, but I'll go along as if this hits every radio station). Imagine what'll happen; radio stations want to avoid these royalties so they stop playing "radio singles" and look to alternatives (read: independent music labels and independent artists) that don't whine for royalties everywhere they look. Now independent/self produced artists and independent labels take off (some of the best music anyway, in my opinion), record companies lose millions because nobody knows about new music/artists/cds and thus stop buying them. With no money to back them, the RIAA disappears. And to top it off, American Idol finally dies; the sun shines brighter and everybody is happy.

I'm rooting for the RIAA to lobby their way right out of existence.
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Do dig your own grave RIAA, i'm sure half the world will want to push you in.
 
The first comment nails it right on the head.

The RIAA is a penny-pinching organization of shitslop and if their lack of foresight causes their demise, so be it.

The good news in all of this is that it's clear the RIAA is getting desperate.
 
Dalamari said:
Solution: Satellite Radio

'nuff said
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I'll just pick from my list of songs that I've had on my computer for years. I stopped downloading music a while ago, so I've got my collection stacked.

But yeah, Satellite seems like the way to go, so RIAA can go shove themselves.
 
RIAA is just going crazy right now because they know that in a 5 or 10 years, they will be a defunct and useless organization through the backlash of artists, the abandonment of DRM, and the absolute hatred the consumer has for them.
**** those idiots...
 
I thought for a second this was about charging people for listening to the radio.....about to get preeeetty pissed off
 
Tyguy said:
I thought for a second this was about charging people for listening to the radio.....about to get preeeetty pissed off
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Same. I was expecting the RIAA to be suing some 8 year old girl for millions because she listened to a song on a dodgey radio station or something.
 
One of the stations I listen to, when I actually turn the radio on, plays a lot of music from the college area. Some good tunes. Of course I buy the CDs that I like but I hate a lot of the stuff that is out there. Probably why I hardly listen to radio.

Is satellite radio that good? How much does it cost?

Why does a trade group (RIAA) need to suck money dry from every source? It should bill the corporations that it is made up of.
 
Am I missing something here? To broadcast music you need a broadcasting license, not only that theres a very complex formula to work out how much money each artist gets from the amount of plays they receive in a given period. Atleast that's how it works in some countries, bah silly Americans.
 
why don't they fine themselves for being offensive to everyone.
 
I screwed up when using Limewire--something caused it to reset my settings without informing me, and it started sharing my download folder. when using a p2p program, you always turn this off at college, they check.

A little while later everyone in the school got an email that the riaa had asked the school to give information about 12 ip adresses. The school said it was up to the students to handle it on their own.

I figured odds were pretty low that I was one of those kids, as I thought my share folder was off, and I'd only downloaded a couple hundred songs--mostly obscure (stuff like "let's go to the lobby" and opera and classical that i couldn't get from my friends), while a few people in my hall had downloaded thousands. One ridiculous techno fanatic had literally pirated hundreds of thousands.

Anyways, going to get my mail one day, I got a letter: If you don't settle with us, we're going to subpoena to get your information. Go to this website and type in this number. If you do not we will sue you for a minimum of $750 per song.

When I did, I was rather amazed at how streamlined the whole affair was. Punch in Case number. Click I agree. Pay $3000 with credit card.

My credit card has a $2500 max, so I called them up and asked for an easy payment method. I'm paying $3250 over the next six months. The $250 is apparently and administrative fee. Anyways, I was mostly amazed by just how efficient at this whole thing they are.
 
Limewire theres where you went wrong. If I was you I'd nuke my drives and tell them to get stuffed, a few military grade formats are enough to get your drive into a very shitty mode of operation, then dismantle and melt in a furnace. Then buy new drives.

$750 a song eh, that would cost me $7,818,750. Although all songs on my PC are from cds I have bought but are long gone in storage and other places so I'd have a hard time proving it. Still you refuse and they demand a retarded sum of money.
 
I find $3000 better than messing with all that legal stuff, which will quite likely cost more in the long run.
 
When thee was a police raid on the student apartments in Poznan (the students were told about it by the professors), HDDs were hidden in bathrooms, water tanks, outside windows with powertapes, trashcans or simply dismounted and the owners took them for a walk.
 
spookymooky said:
I screwed up when using Limewire--something caused it to reset my settings without informing me, and it started sharing my download folder. when using a p2p program, you always turn this off at college, they check.

A little while later everyone in the school got an email that the riaa had asked the school to give information about 12 ip adresses. The school said it was up to the students to handle it on their own.

I figured odds were pretty low that I was one of those kids, as I thought my share folder was off, and I'd only downloaded a couple hundred songs--mostly obscure (stuff like "let's go to the lobby" and opera and classical that i couldn't get from my friends), while a few people in my hall had downloaded thousands. One ridiculous techno fanatic had literally pirated hundreds of thousands.

Anyways, going to get my mail one day, I got a letter: If you don't settle with us, we're going to subpoena to get your information. Go to this website and type in this number. If you do not we will sue you for a minimum of $750 per song.

When I did, I was rather amazed at how streamlined the whole affair was. Punch in Case number. Click I agree. Pay $3000 with credit card.

My credit card has a $2500 max, so I called them up and asked for an easy payment method. I'm paying $3250 over the next six months. The $250 is apparently and administrative fee. Anyways, I was mostly amazed by just how efficient at this whole thing they are.
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Bastards!
 
That's funny...I work at a public radio station. We already pay royalties.
 
Hmm, that that rate, I would owe about oh...


Forty-five million dollars
 
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