― Mike Hanle y (mike), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 12 September 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)
The RIAA is an organization that represents the record labels, which do provide their recording artists with some services -- advances, so the bands can record; marketing; pressing and distribution. Most record labels are clinging to their pre-MP3 business plans, in the face of evidence that this attitude is alienating a lot of customers. The RIAA is these labels' mouthpiece, and therefore is trying to put the bite on filesharers.
― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 12 September 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)
http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/2001/08/19/business/20rose.2.jpgHilary Rosen
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/02/webmusic.carry/link.sherman.jpgCary Sherman
― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 13 September 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)
* Note = at point blank range. with an anti-tank weapon.
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 13 September 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)
In a new song, "Something for Nothing," Mr. Wainwright makes fun of the mentality of file sharers, singing: "It's O.K. to steal, cuz it's so nice to share."
As for the lawsuits, Mr. Wainwright said that he was not surprised. "If you're going to break the law, the hammer is going to come down," he said.
Shut up Loudon Wainwright, you talentless piece of camel dung.
― Mike Hanle y (mike), Sunday, 14 September 2003 02:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 14 September 2003 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Sunday, 14 September 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 14 September 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Sunday, 14 September 2003 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)
"There's no one in the record industry that's a technologist," Morris explains. "That's a misconception writers make all the time, that the record industry missed this. They didn't. They just didn't know what to do. It's like if you were suddenly asked to operate on your dog to remove his kidney. What would you do?"
Personally, I would hire a vet. But to Morris, even that wasn't an option. "We didn't know who to hire," he says, becoming more agitated. "I wouldn't be able to recognize a good technology person — anyone with a good bullshit story would have gotten past me."
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we all read boing boing yay
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 03:23 (eighteen years ago)
ha, but the movie business STILL BELIEVES
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 04:03 (eighteen years ago)
I can't find the dude's site now (maybe it's down?) but I heard a major entertainment attorney say the same thing in a podcast, that most record execs didn't have the slightest idea what to do with computers.
Also I remember hearing that Metallica's manager (who is majorly involved in the RIAA) initially said something along the lines of "this whole internet thing will blow over."
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)
I refer all enquiries about the RIAA to my spokesmandrill, Mr. Lynskey.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 04:54 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/31/riaa_cds_copies_computer/
― omar little, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 23:31 (eighteen years ago)
Yeah there is another thread about it and apparently it's nonsense.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 23:35 (eighteen years ago)
The RIAA Armageddon has begun