p2pnet - rss feed: RIAA wins Golden Shit award
p2pnet.net news:- The Big 4 music cartel’s RIAA has won the not-coveted Consumerist title, Worst Company In America 2007, reader poll.
“We predicted an RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America)landlslide, but they only managed a 53.8% majority over Halliburton’s 46.2%,” says the Consumerist, going on:
The message is clear. The internet cares deeply about being able to download music illegally.
Congrats to you, oh RIAA! Your lucky golden shit trophy will be arriving at your headquarters shortly.
The message is clear. The internet cares deeply about being able to download music illegally.
But, “Wow,” says winnabago in a comment post. “Talk about completely missing the point of the entire issue,” going on:
Ok, if you said it in jest, I get it. But the root of 99% of the hatred for the RIAA is outside of illegal downloading. DRM, extortion of college students, refusing to share profits with artists, locking out download services like eMusic, trusted computing, killing services like slingbox, buying contracts for emerging artists and shelving their music to prevent competition, the “easy settlement webpage”, and the mindless drivel that many of their labels churn out.
It’s not about downloading, get that out of your head.
Meanwhile, by way of reminder, it’s March, the Boycott the RIAA month. In other words, leave out EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and Warner Music (US).
Same for next month, and June, and, and ……
Also See:
Boycott the RIAA - 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 23rd, 2007 at 11:17 am
So. . . . *where* is all the money going (let me see; “influence” buying [political], perverting LEO’s which, up to the point of their involvement with RIAA, had integrity, and let us not forget how the Boy Scouts have fallen off their pedestal with that *horrid* “Copyright Protection” merit badge… on & on it goes)?
Here’s a thought; put RIAA/MPAA into the dock at the Hague, alongside war criminals and such. They’d (the ones without souls; RIAA/MPAA) fit right in.