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Amazing how you fail to address that the RIAA wants to charge online stations for not only playing music that isn't copywrited by the RIAA, but they also want to charge them extra fees that they don't extract from radio stations. Or all the little dirty tricks they try to pull over the years, like trying to make all songs "works for hire" so they don't have to ever give the rights back to their authors...(they almost got away with it, too..)

Face it...the RIAA is not about protecting the rights of the copyright holders...they are about extracting and exploiting their hard work and talent. They are corporate parasites that are abusing the power of law to try and prop up their failing economic model. They are the very ANTITHESIS of Capitalism!!! The whole "Prince Renaming" debacle showed what happens if you try to buck the trend and tell people the truth....

Face it...the RIAA is not about protecting the rights of the copyright holders...they are about extracting and exploiting their hard work and talent.

Yep. To put in in the form of one of the old analogy word problems I recall back when they tested knowledge rather than self-esteem:

The RIAA is to Musicians as:
a) The DemocRat Party is to Poor People
b) Operation PUSH is to Black Americans
c) The State Department is to US Interests
d) All of the above

(Answer: d)