[TheStickman]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

The RIAA doesn't *protect their intellectual property*. How many songs has the RIAA written? What a farce!!!

The RIAA is only upset cuz people aren't buying the garbage they are trying to force down the public's throat AND their monopoly on distribution has been ruined by the internet. Btw, calling someone a thief for downloading music from the internet is an error of fact. But semantics aside, as someone who's been in the music biz for a long while now...I'm GLAD my music is being downloaded because it gives millions more people an opportunity to hear my work and I get more DIRECT sales (yes, RIAA fans, that's sales WITHOUT dealing with you and your slavers....errr contracts) which means I get to keep the $$ made from MY work instead of only getting a percentage.

The RIAA is fast becoming the UN of the music world:irrelevqant!

[strela]

The RIAA doesn't *protect their intellectual property*.

It protects its client's intellectual property.

How many songs has the RIAA written?

Zero. Its customers, who willingly and voluntarily signed up with them, have written a lot of songs though. Don't they deserve legal protection for the intellectual property they sweated and worked hard to produce too?

What a farce!!!

The only real "farce" here lies in the attitudes of otherwise intelligent Freepers who defend theft and the death of a thousand cuts by wastoids on the Internet stealing their product.