Why RIAA Keeps Getting Hacked

Wired ^ | 2:00 AM Jan. 03, 2003 PT | By Michelle Delio

[weegee]

The Recording Industry Association of America may not want people to share digital files, but the organization certainly seems to be in favor of open access to its website.

On Monday, the RIAA site was hacked for the sixth time in six months.

[Hodar]

My particular favorite claim from the RIAA is that CD sales are down 13% due to the proliferation of filesharing. However, DVD sales are up 300%. It seems to me that a person only has 'x' dollars of disposable income. Whether they spend $18 on a CD, or $18 on a movie - the bottom line is that the consumer still spent $18.

[TommyDale]

The RIAA tries to accuse everyone with a CD-RW unit of stealing music, but have overlooked the class action settlement against the major record distributors for PRICE GOUGING! No one feels sorry for an industry who stuck us with $15 to $18 prices for years, while it cost them pennies to actually make. Now, after threatening everyone with actions for downloading shared music, they are surprised that someone would actually hack their website?
These people are morons! If they spent just a small percentage of this latest effort to product decent music that appeals to the masses, they would make tremendous profits. Instead, they want to go after the little guy who wants to make a CD of a 1960's vinyl album, back when music was appealing.

[MonroeDNA]

He, he, hee....

[Desecrated]

"My particular favorite claim from the RIAA is that CD sales are down 13% due to the proliferation of filesharing."

Or, more appropriately, because of the overwhelming amount of s***ty music they are putting out.

[Caipirabob]

This time, the defacement resulted in bogus press releases on the front door, touting the joys of cheese and interspecies romantic relationships.

ROTFLMAO!!!

[George W. Bush]

Ferrell and others predicted that if the RIAA escalates its antipiracy efforts, the organization's site will be completely knocked off the Internet.

Okay, now the buffoons have made me laugh.

[Bush2000]

My particular favorite claim from the RIAA is that CD sales are down 13% due to the proliferation of filesharing. However, DVD sales are up 300%. It seems to me that a person only has 'x' dollars of disposable income. Whether they spend $18 on a CD, or $18 on a movie - the bottom line is that the consumer still spent $18.

A. The RIAA doesn't share a financial stake in DVDs.

B. File-sharing of DVD content isn't popular because of the immense download sizes.

[GOPmember]

This time, the defacement resulted in bogus press releases on the front door, touting the joys of cheese and interspecies romantic relationships.

Cheese, moose(?). This has Freeper written all over it.

[Pyrion]

IIS. That's why they keep getting hacked.

[Hodar]

A. The RIAA doesn't share a financial stake in DVDs.
B. File-sharing of DVD content isn't popular because of the immense download sizes.

You are saying that the Recording Industry Association of America does not have a financial stake in DVD? Funny, they drove the digital standard that defined the DVD format. Membership companies include both film and music groups. I find that statement hard to believe.

Counter to point B. - A DVD is capable of approximately 4.7 Gig of data. A CD-ROM is just over 700 Meg, thus it would take ~6 CD's to hold a full DVD's worth of info. It's not practical. With HDTV coming, the data requirement will only go up. DVD burners are coming out, and the media/hardware will mean DVD's, will become easy to duplicate. Maybe not download over the internet, but one may rent and copy (just like VHS)

My suggestion is, make the price low enough that it's simply not worth the effort. You can make SoftSoap at home. It's easy. Even 'Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream' has a cookbook detailing how to make most of their products for sale. But, the effort/cost of making it, is not worth the cost of buying it. If the RIAA would consider the same tactics, they would eliminate piracy, increase sales, and probably boost profits.

[ContentiousObjector]

This time, the defacement resulted in bogus press releases on the front door, touting the joys of cheese and interspecies romantic relationships

Wow, that Hillary Rosen is one kinky bitch, I knew she was into other women, but animals?

Ofcourse, she does look like a bear, maybe she is a bear and the interspecies relationship is with her lesbian partner or whatever, I shouldn't be drinking at work

[Dinsdale]

I think you are confusing RIAA with MPAA.

Granted they are two sides of the same clueless coin.

[Glenn]

B. File-sharing of DVD content isn't popular because of the immense download sizes.

Wrong answer. You do understand the 'split' command, right? No. Wait. DOS shell doesn't have that one.

Plenty of people are downloading plenty of DVD content. Clever programmers have made utilities to trim and burn it on CD or DVD.

I'm sure it sounded perfectly reasonable in your head when you came to that conclusion, though.

[Hodar]

I fear you are correct. Thanks for the correction ... I shall now go off and beat my head against my lab bench...

[supercat]

My particular favorite claim from the RIAA is that CD sales are down 13% due to the proliferation of filesharing.

Elsewhere I read numbers showing that per-title sales were actually up; since fewer different titles were released, a reduction in total revenue should be expected.

[Walkin Man]

The poor folks at the RIAA are to busy making buggywhips to understand this newfangeled internet, mp3 thingie!

LOL

[Walkin Man]

Or, more appropriately, because of the overwhelming amount of s***ty music they are putting out.

The year's top-selling album was "The Eminem Show,". Need I say more??

[rb22982]

B. File-sharing of DVD content isn't popular because of the immense download sizes

Laugh, college campuses and people on cable modem are downloading them all the time.

[weegee]

Here's another article identifying actions by our pals in the recordinging industry:

Companies in US Sing Blues as Europe Reprises 50s Hits-Labels Fight Copyright Expiration In Europe

DVDs are already region coded. I would expect the same to happen to a future music format. Of course there are region free DVD players...