Opinion: Lynch to RIAA - - Drop Dead!

Extreme Tech ^ | August 22, 2K2 | Jim Lynch

[rdb3]

If you're not already angry, outraged, and ready to take action, you should be. The RIAA must be stopped. Read on...

RIAA stands for the "Recording Industry Association of America." Although it claims to represent the "the First Amendment rights of artists" and to "conduct consumer industry and technical research", that's just a front. Its true mission: protect the cozy music distribution oligopoly controlled by Universal, Warner Bros., Sony, BMG, and EMI.

[rdb3]

The Penguin Ping.

Wanna be Penguified? Just holla!

Got root?

Note: General interest ping, not Linux related.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Hi rd...grrr...I really HATE Hillary Rosen and her gf Elizabeth Birch! Notice that there's two greatly evil women named Hillary!

Did you see on that other thread I had pix of her and Eliz.?

They won't win...ever. The pandora's box is out there and no matter how they TRY to shut it, they can't. They shut down napster, audiogalaxy...next is kazaa, mpc, winmx...but there's so many p2p out there that they'll never catch them all.

[motexva]

Are you aware of any kind of checklist of things you could do to protect yourself from the DOJ investigation? The service I use purports to be anonymous and encrypted, however, I'm erring on the side of caution and burning everything on a CD and then erasing the files as soon as I have 80 minutes of music. But I'm certain there's still some traces of it left on my drive, is there software or something that will remove even those traces? Do you take any extra precautions?

[rdb3]

Do you use Windows? If so, try WindowsWasher and/or Evidence Eliminator.

If you have a separate drive that you write your songs to, purchase Partition Magic and do a secure erase of that drive.

Otherwise, you never really do get rid of everything. In fact, I probably can pull up stuff off your system you've thought was long gone.

[claptrap]

Who cares about the downloading of garbage and filth!
Todays music is trash , the RRIA are the peddlers of trash,
if thats what youre so concerned with, filling your mind with trash, then you are going to become trash, thats all!

[rdb3]

You have issues. Please get help.

[isthisnickcool]

Who cares about the downloading of garbage and filth! Todays music is trash , the RRIA are the peddlers of trash, if thats what youre so concerned with, filling your mind with trash, then you are going to become trash, thats all!

That reminds me, tomorrow is trash day. Almost forgot about it watching this darn tropical storm come in.

[Knitebane]

You evil theives. We should all support the RIAAs attempt to stop you theiving pirates. They have a God-given right to make money. We should fall down on our knees and give thanks that we have fine orginizations like the RIAA and MPAA that bring us Moby and Brittney and N'Sync. You just want to steal and deprive those poor artists of their livelihood.

(I saw that we were up to 8 posts and the normal ranting idiots hadn't been here. Well, now their position has been posted so they don't need to show up at all.)

[I_Love_My_Husband]

LOL!!

Did you know that most of the people dl'g stuff are people who want Pariah, BSB, Britney?

I couldn't believe it but it's trooooo!

[I_Love_My_Husband]

I like one song by Moby. Forgot which one though.

[rdb3]

(I saw that we were up to 8 posts and the normal ranting idiots hadn't been here. Well, now their position has been posted so they don't need to show up at all.)

If only it were that simple. ;-)

[Knitebane]

The RIAA and their cohorts cause mucho frustration for people like me.

I have a three foot long shelf full of vinyl albums. Most of them have been played nearly to death and the sound quality was never that great to begin with.

I started downloading songs on Napster so that I would have portable, good quality copies of those records. Now that Napster is gone, I use Kazaa. I've got most of them by now, but some of them are hard to find. Ever try to find Uriah Heep songs on the 'net?

I understand that there are people who are leeches that download music and don't care if the artist gets paid. I don't have a problem with the RIAA going after those individuals.

But I paid for those songs. I already bought the right to listen to them. And the RIAA calls me a thief.

The one time that I downloaded a song that I didn't already own was because of a recommendation by a friend. I downloaded one song by Letters to Cleo and then promptly went to their website and bought every CD they ever made. And the RIAA calls me a thief.

Well if they don't respect me as a customer, I feel no need to provide them with income. I've pretty much stopped buying new CDs.

[weikel]

You picked your name well.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Audiogalaxy was the best.

[ledzep75]

"Who cares about the downloading of garbage and filth! Todays music is trash , the RRIA are the peddlers of trash, if thats what youre so concerned with, filling your mind with trash, then you are going to become trash, thats all!"

Not everyone downloads "Todays Music". Some of us download old music that is hard to find anywhere else!

[ledzep75]

"Ever try to find Uriah Heep songs on the 'net?"

Try using Usenet! Usenet MP3 FAQ

[Banjoguy]

The production of a recording is a value added, vertical marketing, enterprise. Along the way to the public who will hopefully purchase it, contributors to it's value could be, among others:
Authors of musical compositions - for those of you in Rio Linda, that's songwriters who write the stuff down.
Arrangers
Performers - (musicians)
Purveyors of recording facilities - (sound studios)
studio engineers and sound technicians - many of whom attended expensive commercial schools to learn their trade.
Cover design artists
recording manufacturers, packagers.
wholesale distrubutors, shippers
retail merchants

"The broadest creative-work protection the U.S. government offers is the copyright. Something that is copyrighted may not be reproduced, published or copied without permission from the copyright-holder. U.S. copyright law says that all "original works of authorship" in a fixed tangible form are protected for the duration of the creator's life plus 50 years (companies hold copyrights for 75 years). A huge variety of creative work falls under this "original works of authorship" criteria, but the U.S. Copyright Office groups copyrightable material into eight general categories:
,
* Literary works
* Pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
* Musical works
* Sound recordings
* Dramatic works
* Pantomimes and choreographic works
* Motion pictures and other audio-visual works
* Architectural works "

.......from the How Stuff Works Staff
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question492.htm

There seems to be a need for quality reproductions of older vinyl. There is software which may be 'purchased' that can help clean up the sound from old vinyl. I know there are many who don't like the word purchased. Naturally, if you believe you are entitled to free copies of a cd, another person's work product, you will include 'free' copies of software in your belief system.

Just let it be known that when you steal another persons musical work product you are basically screwing everyone on the vertical value added chain, not only the musician, If it were not for the rest of the contributors, the creative work, likely, would not see the light of day.

The RIAA is an organization, among others like ASCAAP, BMI, made up of those participating in the creative enterprise of producing recordings. It is not monolithic, self appointed and not for profit, but exists soley for the protection of creative rights and the profit that is to be made therefrom.

http://www.riaa.org/Copyright-What.cfm

[Knitebane]

I did. Every MP3 of "Walking in Your Shadow" off of the "Very 'eavy, Very 'umble" North American album that I've found sounds like someone either recorded it using a needle and a paper cone or loses the stereo. Sucky.

I did find one copy on a German site but I guess it was the UK mix because it didn't sound anything like my LP.

Terrapin Music in the UK sells a CD of the album, but dammit, I already bought the right to listen to it. I don't feel like paying again for the same music.

[Knitebane]

Your post is a long-winded duplicate of post #3.

Now tell me why, wise guy, any artist (read: publishing company) is entitled to my money twice for the same music?

If I bought a vinyl LP in 1971, everyone got their money. Now I want the songs from that album in MP3 form so that I can listen to it on my computer and on my portable MP3 player.

One more time, it's not theft if I paid for it. So why is the RIAA going after people without knowing if they paid for the music or not?

The last time I checked, people are considered innocent until proven guilty.

The idea that the RIAA is okay for denying people access to music because they think that it's not been paid for by one of the parties involved in the MP3 swap is the height of arrogance.