p2pnet - rss feed: It’s March. So Boycott the RIAA!
p2pnet.net news:- March has been designated don’t buy anything from EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and Warner Music (US) month.
Boycott them, in other words.
Gizmodo started it, opting for March. But of course. January, February, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December are good too.
Not worth the effort, you say? Boycotts don’t achieve anything?
They do. Be sure of it. Are the labels likely to admit they’ve seen a marked drop in sales since they started screwing their own customers over, kids and all, by trying to sue them into buying ‘product’?
Unlikely.
Mark Fleischmann has a post on Digital Trends suggesting excellent, and painless, ways to make sure the boycott works.
Here’s a synopsis. Head over to Digital Trends for the full Monty.
Step One: Circumvention
Buy used CDs: They don’t show up in sales figures and therefore don’t help the record companies, statistically or otherwise. You’re not limited to flea markets
Get into vinyl
Borrow, don’t buy: The time-honored sneaker net is a good way to elude RIAA pursuers.
Form a buying club: Variation of the above
Enjoy free downloads
Exploit the analog hole
Step Two: Alternatives
Buy indie-label CDs: Not all music labels are evil
Buy indie downloads
Buy merchandise, not CDs or downloads: Even if your favorite band does business with a major label, it may also have a website with T-shirts, coffee mugs, and the like
Buy concert tickets: The best way to support musicians is to see them live
Learn to play. Go for it. Live your dream
Explore other media: No matter how music-addicted you are, it’s healthy to have a balanced media diet
That’ll work.
And bear in mind, as Digital Copyright Canada’s Russell McOrmond said (and he said it five years ago), “There is no way for the recording industry to tell the difference between lost revenue to people who are sharing big-label music on the Internet, or people like myself who have simply decided to boycott the big-labels.”
He went on:
In April of 2000 I sent out my article, ‘Bye, Metallica: a lost fan’, and created the URL of http://metallica.flora.org/. I wrote that URL onto all the Metallica CD’s I owned, and brought to a used CD store. As of that day I have boycott the products of any RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) or MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) member.
I made one exception last summer when I bought two DVD movies. In this case I bought the movies with the specific intent of playing them on my Linux computer using an Open-Source DVD player. I knew that this was in direct violation of the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a controversial law in the USA) and I submitted details of this action to the Canadian Government’s copyright reform process as a reply to the Canadian Motion Pictures Distributors Association (CMPDA) submission.
I do believe that revenue is being lost by these media cartels, and I am doing my part to help ensure that this continues to happen. These cartels will continue to claim that it is peer-to-peer networking that is bringing them down. I suspect that the Candle Production Association of our distant past also attempted to blame the invention of the light-bulb on their financial woes, and wished that they could have enacted laws to stop it.
So start now. No matter where in the world you are, don’t buy anything from or associated with, EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and Warner Music (US).
Make them wake up to the hard, cold reality that although they need us to stay alive, we don’t need them for anything at all.
Stay tuned.
Also See:
Digital Trends - 12 Ways to Boycott the RIAA, March 14, 2007
bear in mind - It’s March! RIAA boycott month!, March 1, 2007
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Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local politicians. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance. Don’t just complain. Do something!
March 15th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
I choose to use Napster To Go. It rocks!
March 15th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
and where do you think crapster gets it donwloads?
March 15th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
This person is right. Using a legal service also generates revenue for the record labels.
In order to do this boycott right, you should refrain from acquiring RIAA music AT ALL on the Internet, either through legal or illegal means. The RIAA will continue to blame piracy, and their claims will have some sort of legitimacy unless they see that their music on p2p networks is also slowing in popularity in conjunction with sales. If this happens, their argument will be baseless. Don’t get it from a P2P network, don’t use a music download store, don’t buy a CD from a record store, don’t even stream the song or video from a Web site. If the RIAA can see a slump in both legal AND illegal listening of their music, maybe THEN they will put up or shut up.
March 15th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
And this will be no different than any other month. I don’t buy anymore from the cartels. Until they get the message that their methods of business and how they want to do it doesn’t work for me, I will continue not to buy.
They can take that lack of purchase to pay the artists about as much as they pay them with floods of purchases. The only ones getting soaked in this bad publicity they have managed to generate and bad business methods are themselves. No buying=no money. Blame that one piracy if they wish but it alters it not one iota. No money comes out of my wallet to assist them in their dastardly deeds.
March 15th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
that’s my point. I don’t want to boycott big label music just because strangers are trying to tell me what to listen to. thats My decision, not yours
March 15th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
” that’s my point. I don’t want to boycott big label music just because strangers are trying to tell me what to listen to. thats My decision, not yours ”
Odd.
Strangers tell you to what to listen to all the time.
The ’strangers’ are the RIAA, however, make absolutely
certain that the only thing you CAN hear is what they
own, or profit from.
They choose what you listen to.
Not you.
If you get your info on new acts from the TV ….
THEY choose who you hear about.
If you rely on radio for info on new acts ….
THEY choose who gets played on the radio, regardless
of merit.
You don’t choose anything.
You are spoon fed by 4 large corporate entities, and if
there is an excellent group out there that is not
indentured by one of those large groups of ’strangers’
you won’t know about it .. ever … without the internet
You don’t want to boycott cuz you’re paid to astroturf.
March 15th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
sometimes i listen to indie music, sometimes, i listen to music on napster i have never heard of and sometimes i listen to really famous bands. just because someone says boycott riaa(cria) doesn’t mean i salute them and say ‘yes sir”
sageadvisors@gmail.com
March 15th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
” Playing much loved song’s from the public domain plus our originals is what we enjoy playing and recording. ”
Of course, you realize, by continuing to support the RIAA(cria) you are helping to eliminate for all time your
beloved public domain ? .. right ?
You seem pretty willing to salute and say ‘Yes Sir to them without question.
No one is telling you you can’t, after all, you’re the boss of you, we are trying to show you why you shouldn’t support them … educate ..as it were.
For a musician, you’re pretty dense .. hoping for a chance at indentured servitude ?
March 15th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
http://radio3.cbc.ca/
no wonder
March 15th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
radio3.cbc.ca/bands/SAGEADVISORS
try this one lol
March 15th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
I had forgot all about that . yep every once in awhile i keep trying and one of these days something will stick. thanks for the link and intrest in my life!!
March 15th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
” Playing much loved song’s from the public domain plus our originals is what we enjoy playing and recording. ”
If we were to put out a self made CD for others to sell we would release public domain and originals. when we practice and or play for dances/in our coffee shop we play almost always cover versions of popular songs people have generally heard.
we enjoy playing famous covers live and people enjoy the songs because they know them
March 15th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
” If we were to put out a self made CD for others to sell we would release public domain and originals. when we practice and or play for dances/in our coffee shop we play almost always cover versions of popular songs people have generally heard.
we enjoy playing famous covers live and people enjoy the songs because they know them”
Thats great.
And by buying the RIAA cd’s you are helping to finance their ability to sue you for doing just that, without paying them a ‘performance’ fee.
Do they do that now .. not always, not yet.
They are busy trying to seal off any possibility of acts
like yours of distributing their music to many people
using an effificient P2P system.
Downloading RIAA stuff does not hurt them a bit and they know it.
The risk of someone like you reaching a mass audience,
becoming popular, and outselling them is what they fear.
They want you , and others like you off the internet, unless you pay them a toll.
That’s the reason for the boycott.
To show them that artists AND the purchasing public do NOT NEED THEM anymore.
It’s not a matter of strangers telling you what to like.
It’s many musicians, artists, and other member of the
artistic community asking you to think about what your
purchase dollar is financing and supporting.
March 15th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
I use p2p to download obscure J-pop songs and whatnot. It’s rare that I *EVER* download anything that an RIAA label “produces.” To hell with that. J-pop = sugoi!
March 15th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
” They want you , and others like you off the internet, unless you pay them a toll. ”
That’s why collective licensing is a problem.
I’d be paying THEM to download what you want to
share with your audience.
March 15th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Thats great.
And by buying the RIAA cd’s you are helping to finance their ability to sue you for doing just that, without paying them a ‘performance’ fee.
there is a reasonable fee that can be paid to SOCAN for all sorts of music use in public in canada.
i.e in our case singing to karaoke, playing cover versions and playing background music. 3 differnt charges and our coffee shop is small so we will only be charged the minunum in each case.
it’s not expensive to be legal
http://www.socan.ca/jsp/en/resources/tariffs.jsp
March 15th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Why just boycott these parasites during Mars?
We don’t need pigs in our society, Boycott them permanetly! This is what I am conducting a boycott to death! No Movies, no CDs no download nothing!
They never understand that they need us but we don’t need them
March 15th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
As someone who plays music if an artist I like is with a major label I respect them enough to pay the people they have CHOSEN to represent/distrubute/promote their music. maybe they don’t get as much as they should from those people but I prfer to get their music through the people they choose to help them get it to me.
March 15th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
You have made YOUR choice. Allow those that feel otherwise about helping the cartels to make their own also.
I too, have made MY choice. Which is not to assist the cartels in this idiotic methology of suing their potential customer base.
You want to support them for your vested interests. I don’t want to support them for their methods of business, overpriced garbage, and lack of hearing new choices of selections on public airwaves. Not to mention the blatent hijacking of copywrite laws to near effectively end public domain. Nothing we hear or see in our lifetime will become public domain. Add to it that DRM doesn’t quit with the end of the copywrite terms.
There is a whole list of items I don’t approve of that link straight back to big music. I chose not to give them my money because I don’t agree with their business practices, just as you chose to continue to fund them.
March 16th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Then I have a suggestion for you:
Download the music you want using one of the p2p Application such as limewire, utorrent or mute.
And send some money DIRECTLY to your favorite artist. But please please please do not send money to these parasites! I you do the artist will get zip!
Also this is just to let you know that RIAA artist are out of fashion because they are no longer cool. Try to find some artists among the indies. Many of them beat the crap out of most RIAA drone! It is easy for them since most RIAA artists suck big time such as Britney slut trying to use moral depravation to retain some public.
By By RIAA pigs!
We are the customers and we decide who get the money and who don’t. Sorry! Not You!
March 16th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
if the artists that belong to the RIAA are $tupid enough to continue to stay with and support the RIAA, they deserve what they get…boycotted right alongside and WITH the RIAA.
We, the consumer, are the ones who are in TRUE control ONLY *IF* we TAKE that control and USE it __COLLECTIVELY__!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The RIAA and those who back them ALL need to be taught a great big le$$on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I say make this boycott PERMENANT and that include$ *DOWNLOAD$*!!!!!!! For the boycott to GENUINELY send the intended me$$age there MUST be SOLIDARITY among us, The Consumer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 16th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
n/t
March 16th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
I can’t stop liking what music I like just for a boycott. Music is a very personal thing.
it’s part of who I am. If they happen to be RIAA/CRIA so what?!
March 17th, 2007 at 8:09 am
You are right astroturfer, you can’t stop liking what you like … However …
You can still boycott, thereby not financially supporting
the current corrupt industry and STILL get what you like,
as the article points out ….
1. buy used
This will get you what you want, and not pu another dime
in their pockets .. nice.
You can still get exactly what you want .. since you just
can’t help yourself .. without supporting them.
” As someone who plays music if an artist I like is with a major label I respect them enough to pay the people they have CHOSEN to represent/distrubute/promote their music. maybe they don’t get as much as they should from those people but I prfer to get their music through the people they choose to help them get it to me. ”
LOL, now you’re just being an ass
As an ‘artist’ you also know exactly how little they actually get.
As an artist you know exactly how impossible it is to audit
them on your behalf.
As an artist you know how difficult it is for the lables to
‘find’ you when payday comes.
As an artist, you realize that their ‘contract’ is truly indentured servitude, and from the moment you sign it
nothing you create will ever be under your control.
As an artist, you realize that once you can’t even voice
your own displeasure at what they are doing, without
fear of punishment.
Respect ???
The Labels have proven that they have no respect for their
own artists ( cooking their books so the artists never get
whats coming to them etc .. ),
no respect for their purchasers ( software that not only removes your fair use rights of copying for personal use, but
potentially ruins your PC - see Sony Rootkit ),
no respect for the fans or the constitution ( suing people without evidence, and bypassing due process )
This list goes on for a very long time, and is quite easy for
even a caveman to research and verify, if they want to know
the reality of the ‘Biz’ you respect so much. New readers here can simply search the archives for articles relating
to just how shitty the people that are paying you to ‘turf’
here are.
So, as pointed out in the article,
If you really must have something the RIAA is pushing,
use one of the methods outlined in the article to keep
yourself happy, and the RIAA wallets dry.
March 17th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
TYWS.
March 17th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
I buy Napster To Go cards or use Yahoo Music Unlimited or imesh To Go because it’s the RIGHT thing to do. I feel better about the music I listen to and I enjoy it.
I could use Frostire, my wife does all the time for P2P, but I just don’t feel comfotable with it and if I am not going to enjoy the music I get from P2P and or enjoy it why bother?
If a Canadian law someday say’s 100% without a doubt P2P downloading is 100% legal because of a tax or levy and no one not even the CRIA can dispute it I will be all over P2P 24-7. Until then I will use/buy/rent “corporate product”.
March 17th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
” I buy Napster To Go cards or use Yahoo Music Unlimited or imesh To Go because it’s the RIGHT thing to do. ”
ROFL.
keep on rentin’.
it’s the ‘right thing to do … for the label, and the
label alone.
Keep spending money on something that will never be yours.
Keep throwing them your cash for something THEY decide
what you can do with.
You know .. Strangers deciding for you how you will be
allowed to use what you pay for
Smart
” If a Canadian law someday say’s 100% without a doubt P2P downloading is 100% legal ”
P2P downloading is 100% legal.
Copyright infringement is illegal.
They are not one in the same, as the industry would
like people to believe.
You know, like the industry would have people believe
the the Copyright holder is the artist, ( it’s not, the
rights holder is nearly always the label, therefore the
LABEL, not the artist, has the sole right to the cash )
Use frostwire with comeplete safety and comfort, as long
as you don’t trade the RIAA stuff.
Don’t DL RIAA stuff.
Don’t buy it
If you must have it, buy used so they don’t get another dime from it.
P2P, like the VCR before it, is legal.