Will you be joining the fight against the RIAA this month?

Question

in the month of march many people will be joining in the fight against the RIAA and boycotting any music sold under the major record labels (Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal, and Sony BMG). the RIAA is the agency that sues all those kids thousands of dollars for downloading copyrighted material illegally, yet doesnt give any money back to the musicians whose material they are 'protecting'. take a look at this artice to see what you can do. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/gizmodos-antiriaa-manifesto-239512.php

Best of Luck.

Answer 1

Joining? I can count the number of RIAA label CDs I've bought on one hand. I stick to independent or foreign music most often as it is, and the RIAA's actions have only increased my motive to do so.

Hit them where it hurts, right in the pocketbook. Capitalism demands boycotts of bad merchants, it's what is right!

Answer 2

ABSOLUTELY.

I can't imagine a worse business PR practice than suing your own customers. It's inane beyond belief.

I have not purchased any music associated with the RIAA since they attacked the original Napster. And I will probably never buy any again because it doesn't seem that the RIAA is learning from their mistakes, or open to changing their business practices.

Even the courts are getting tired of the RIAA's tactics and made them pay the costs of one person they illegally sued.

When the original Napster was first introduced, I thought to myself, "the music industry is going to make a killing from this". I mean, it was totally free advertising. A healthy percentage of the people downloading music from Napster were discovering new songs and artists and BUYING the CDs when they found stuff they liked. There is no question in my mind that had the music industry utilised Napster as an advertising medium instead of attacking it, they would now be kissing the feet of its inventor. And I would hazard a guess that their revenues would be at least double what they are now.

Yes. The music industry made a (possibly fatal) mistake this time. You simply cannot alienate customers in this manner and hope to survive in the end.

Answer 3

the hollywood movie studios sued Sony in the Betamax case. the studios were scared silly that people would record movies off that new HBO service and stop going to theaters. fortunately for them, they lost. now hollywood can't wait to get movies into tape or DVD distribution. They came so close to killing the goose than now gives them golden eggs. When a tape or DVD costs the price of two theater tickets, people buy them by the millions. Even people that have already seen it in the theater.

Sony now is a big player in the RIAA, you would think they would have learned that lesson already.

Answer 4

RIAA and the MIAA are dinosaurs and need to be extinct.