Posted on 06/24/2004 12:42:57 PM PDT by FourPeas
If anybody doubts that the RIAA are a bunch of sleazy maggots, here's yet more evidence.
These two sentences contradict each other. Almost everything that charts is junk.
Kinda funny.
People rail against greedy lawyers. Then they join class action lawsuits because they were 'wronged'. They win. Greedy lawyers get money. Class action members get coupons or worthless junk.
Bet the lawyers representing them didn't get 1000 copies of "willenium".
Really. I'm sure they're glad they cleaned out their warehouses and didn't have to pay a landfill fee.
The libraries should convert those CD's to MP3's and load them onto the hard drives at the libraries for copying by the aggrieved consumers.
The RIAA isn't the bad guy here. The real jackass is the Attorney General's office . . . they were the ones who agreed to have the RIAA send the CDs as part of the settlement in the first place. They knew exactly what kind of crap they were going to get; otherwise, they would have demanded cash instead.
It says a lot about the intelligence of our school and public servants that they were taken like this.
Uh, is this the same suit where, I, as a consumer who purchased at least one CD in the past 5(3?) years, could get a check for as much as $20?
But:
"There were several that were clearly marked, 'For Promotional Use Only,' " she said. Tacoma Public Library received dozens of CDs that were notched, indicating that they were not resalable.
Those are the most collectible. I spent a few years working for an independent music distributor, these CDs are the ones to keep, some have different mixes/ cuts on them, usually not released again until 20 years later on an "uncut best of" compendium. Must be a list somewhere, these sell for big money to niche collectors. Off to Ebay...
yes they did and several lawyers made out like bandits
True, but those particular CDs did hit the top 10% of the little known "Billboard's Top 100 Failed Play and Sales Chart".
More dirty tricks from the RIAA screaming how they are the victim of the public...
Those poor kids.
While this article seems somewhat critical of record companies in general, especially in reporting Seattle school systems' concern over some of the older music and the trash lyrics, I'm wondering about the rest of the story; how much this story is subtly biased towards the record companies and what facts have been omitted from the complete story.
Perhaps 115,241 music CDS would retail at $1.5 million if they weren't Promotional Cut-out CDs headed for Bargain bins at a local record store.
It's interesting that the reporter did not include the latest invasion of privacy the RIAA is currently trying to shove down consumers' throats.
This, just by itself, is a clear violation of the Eighth Amendment
Wrong,I am.
I joined in a class action for contacts. It was far more trouble than it was worth. I got basicly nothing. I'm not surpised by this just saddened. I pay as little as I can. I also shop at a used cd store. I HOPE that the internet destroys the music industry. The musicians all bitch about the contracts but all of them come right back to the trough.Then have the hubris to lecture all of US on how to vote!
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