Posted on 01/22/2003 12:49:17 PM PST by freepatriot32
The Recording Industry Association of America wants to go after the companies that provide you with your Internet access.
Here are some of the printable reactions since RIAA chief Hilary Rosen presented the proposal last weekend, during which she said Internet service providers would soon "be held accountable" for money the music industry has lost due to file-swapping services:
It's stupid. Unethical. Illegal. Insane.
"Blaming ISPs for giving these hardened criminals the bandwidth for perpetrating their heinous file-sharing acts is akin to blaming the highway department for creating roads that are used by dope smugglers," said security consultant Robert Ferrell. "It just doesn't make sense."
(Excerpt) Read more at wired.com ...
exactly and those voters need to rethink reelecting anyone that voted yes for the dmca in the next election
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Attention musicians: Sorry. You'll have to stop smoking crack and lounging around every day. You'll need to tour much more heavily now - you know, work for a living.
...more money. Whatever avenue they have to travel to get it.
Whether it is sending musclemen into bars to get a protection/licensing fee so that they can have the tv on (in case a tv ad with a song comes on) or going after the ISPs.
The RIAA collects money on behave of musicians. The more money they collect, the more they get. Got to keep that growth curve going up up up even if baby boomers are buying less less less.
Be it politicians, station management, they don't care...they live in a P.T. Barnum world.
RIAA is populated by the very people who brought us "Payola" back in the eraly 60's (slipping $$$ to DJ's to give their songs extra play and thus extra sales).
Meanwhile, the actual composers and artists who do the work get ripped off via fine print and weasel wording in their contracts.
They're right.
Payola continues (in the 1970s it went to sex, drugs, and concert promotion as perks for the DJ or playlist coordinator).
It became a big deal when BMI had all the hits on the charts because ASCAP would record rock and roll.
Clear Channel today owns 1200 stations (dominating many markets), SFX (formerly PACE) Concert promotions, the exclusive contract to many civic performance centers, and possibly a portion of Ticketmaster. If Clear Channel wants to create a "hit" to send it through their entertainment machine, they can. Viacomm (MTV/CBS) owns many radio stations too (may be the second largest player).
The sad thing about payola is that it worked. The DJs got their song writing credits (which gave them kickback) on songs they never wrote and many payola cuts are still hits today (on moldy golden oldies radio). Dick Clark severed some of his ties to record company ownership after he was brought before Congress but he walked away scott free.
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