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Okay Corral time for the RIAA

Started by Duncan Riley · 7 months ago

For years now we; as consumers, have been abused by the RIAA in their fight to make every consumer a criminal and to protect the financial interests of the recording industry - not the artists. Sure we have heard about the occasional court case where some judge has slapped them around a littl ... Continue reading »

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  • Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins

    7 months ago

    As you know, i've been reviewing my past posts at mashable recently, and last night I came across my 2008 predictions list. I know you were joking, but you may have jumped the gun a bit in your 2008 prediction of the death of the RIAA. It's coming up late this year and we haven't heard the news on it yet, but I'm guessing that there's still time for one of my predictions to come true - the death of one of the major record labels this year.

    Before the RIAA can die, one or more of the record labels must die - since the RIAA is wholly funded by them.

    I'm guessing that when the Q4 reports come in for the labels this year, we'll see funding for IFPI or RIAA completely cut from at least one label's budget due to the fact that they're operating in the red.
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  • FreedomFighter

    7 months ago

    Unfortunately, as long as the consumer doesn't hold the RIAA/MPAA member corporations responsible by virtue of spending habits, there is little that can be done. Lawmakers are more inclined to answer to the special interests than the masses at large because the masses generally live an uninformed and indifferent life.
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  • syber

    7 months ago

    Because there have been no studies conducted, we really do not know the extent of innocent people made to turn over to both Directv and the RIAA. When an innocent person was sued, this became the crime of a fraudulent lawsuit where Directv or the RIAA intended on profiting from the illicit suit. Because the Department of justice allowed suits to continue against innocent person's and the Justice system failed to protect from a court room fraud, then those innocent need to ignore Justice the next time they are a juror or a witness. Justice needs a wake up call as where the individual really was innocent, then they should have been afforded protection.
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