Proposal to the RIAA

[bobhss]

My quickly thought up proposal to the RIAA:

I will switch sides. Right now I file share like crazy. I would switch and rat out other file sharers if the following terms are met:

1. All CDs will be $10 or less.

2. All radio played singles (usually crap anyway) will be made available by each of the major record companies from their web sites for free in at least 192kbps quality(MP3).

3. All CDs will be copyable to MP3 for our own personal use.

4. I reserve the right to think this through farther and add more demands to this proposal in the future.

[rainbowdemon]

Originally posted by bobhss
My quickly thought up proposal to the RIAA:

I will switch sides. Right now I file share like crazy. I would switch and rat out other file sharers if the following terms are met:

1. All CDs will be $10 or less.

2. All radio played singles (usually crap anyway) will be made available by each of the major record companies from their web sites for free in at least 192kbps quality(MP3).

3. All CDs will be copyable to MP3 for our own personal use.

4. I reserve the right to think this through farther and add more demands to this proposal in the future.

5. I will stop smoking crack.

[Sockfulloflove]

Originally posted by bobhss
I would switch and rat out other file sharers if the following terms are met:

Well thank god the RIAA isn't listening to you or else you would have A LOT of people pissed at you.

[metale]

6.- RIAA will let us live FREELY!!!

[Siskabush]

uhm...All mainstream crap music should be priced at 50 cents. Thats all what JLo and brittney are worth.

The only way ill ever buy another CD is if they actually put new genres of music in canada.

I still have yet to see a reasonably priced trance CD (30$ for DJ Tiesto: Nyana)

Its a RIAA label too, so i couldnt buy it.

[Malicious Intent]

How do you know if it is an RIAA label? I'm looking a The Thrills album. The label is EMI, which i believe is a member of the RIAA?
Shame really, it would be alot of hassle getting all the songs I like from that album and would have probably bought it at a reasonable price if it wasn't RIAA.
I will probably miss out unless I happen to stumble across it.

[Pebbles100]

I found a website awile ago that will tell you if your cd's an RIAA cd. They have most - not all - cd's listed too. I dunno if it will help or not -

http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/search.asp

Some tiesto cd's are as much as 40$-50$ [USD] since they are imports. I stick to downloading them! :)

[bobhss]

These were quick thoughts, not the sat down and hammered out ones. I was just seeing if anyone else has a remedy to the current battle that seemed to make sense. Anyone else have one?

(I wasn't smoking crack, I had just woke up)

Sockfulloflove, it's kinda like an amnesty plan for the RIAA. We'll start playing "fairly" if they start playing fairly type thing.

[FutureIverson]

Originally posted by bobhss
These were quick thoughts, not the sat down and hammered out ones. I was just seeing if anyone else has a remedy to the current battle that seemed to make sense. Anyone else have one?

(I wasn't smoking crack, I had just woke up)

Sockfulloflove, it's kinda like an amnesty plan for the RIAA. We'll start playing "fairly" if they start playing fairly type thing.

Yeah we have an idea, LET'S KEEP SHARING, no one here is looking to cut a deal witht he riaa. I'll take it for free no matter if it's 1 penny per song until the day they take my computer. ooh and lets not turn eachother in to the riaa.

[stts]

Being a rat is a very dangerous thing. If a rat sets bad things in motion that results in a person losing his house and money and job, that person may become depressed. The resulting depression may cause him to hunt down the rat and shoot the rat in the head. Just today, some guy got depressed because kids in an amish community kept throwing tomatoes at his car. So he got his shotgun and blew the kid away. The moral of the story, stay out of other peoples buisness.:cross

[Azathoth]

Yup rats are truly VERMIN. If someone ratted someone else out in my circle of friends. Dire consequences follow not far behind. Some of them aren't exactly average (read normal). Everyone loses when someone gets ratted on (especially the rat). Excepting of course the "authorities" who generally tell you "give us what we want and we'll cut a deal" than they stiff you.

[tMoD]

How do you know if it is an RIAA label? I'm looking a The Thrills album. The label is EMI, which i believe is a member of the RIAA?

Here is a list of RIAA-affiliated labels:

www.boycott-riaa.com/membership.php

[Mr. Crowley]

I found a website awile ago that will tell you if your cd's an RIAA cd. They have most - not all - cd's listed too. I dunno if it will help or not -

I looked at this website a while back. I've noticed that many albums are released on more than one label. Often, one of the labels that the album was released under is a member of the RIAA, and the other is not. So, if you own the one that was not released by a member of the RIAA, is it safe to share it? I'm guessing not. If you were caught sharing such material, at the very least, you would have to prove in court that what you were sharing was not released by a member of the RIAA, and this would cost a lot of money. I doubt, however, that even this would be enough to get off the hook and there simply is not a great number of good songs that was not relaesed by the RIAA in some form or another whether it be a greatest hits cd or some type of compilation.

[anotherjustme]

Originally posted by bobhss

I would switch and rat out other file sharers if the following terms are met:

You won't get a chance... I know where you live...:shy :devil :hole

[Travis982]

1. All CDs will be $10 or less.

2. All radio played singles (usually crap anyway) will be made available by each of the major record companies from their web sites for free in at least 192kbps quality(MP3).

3. All CDs will be copyable to MP3 for our own personal use.

Keep the above and add:

4. Artists will receive at least 50% of revenue from CD sales.

5. All music not available for sale on CD will be exempt from P2P downloading restrictions. This means available to everyone---not just certain cities or countries.

And, of course, lose the "rat out your neighbour" bit.