The sky is falling! The music industry is doomed! Woe is everyone. The pirates have stolen all the gold. What will we ever do? How can we possibly recover? You’ve poured water on us and we’re melting!
George Ziemann has written an article for the website
Boycott The RIAA.
George put a lot of work into this article and went as far as to use the RIAA’s OWN figures to support his article. It is this type of indepndent research that is going to support all of the arguments for continued development of P2P Technology and will help the bad guys realize that we are not Pirates, crooks, degenerates, sons of a motherless goat or any of the other colorful adjectives this aging, uninformed group of “legislators,” and “artist activists” think.
“The RIAA’s story of piracy just doesn’t hold water in the face of their own statistics and statements. You’ll note that, even with the 1992, 1996 or 1997 figures, it would take 10 years for this to add up to the $4 billion in “piracy losses” that someone is pulling out of the air (or a somewhat lower area from which things like this are known to emerge). Hilary Rosen is going to have an even tougher time trying to explain what’s going to happen next without making the tale of pirates sound even more like the fictional account than it is. Before I continue, however, if anyone spots an error in the charts above, let me know and I’ll correct them. As I said, some data was extrapolated. If you’ve got a real number, let’s hear it (and the source). Not that’s it going to matter much. The record companies are going to realize that the pirates are not the consumers that downloaded a few mp3s. The real pirates are coming and they’re going to do more than steal a few songs from you. We’re going to tear down your castle walls.
Forget walking in the front door, let’s burn the damn castle to the ground!
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