‘The Sultans of Spin’ – Take the RIAA survey

Jon over at P2Pnet is conducting a survey on the practices of the RIAA and its effect on the music industry, file-sharing, and individuals as a whole.

The survey only takes but a few minutes and I think we all can agree that the results will be interesting for us all to take a look at and examine.

FROM P2PNET:

p2pnet.net news:- I’ve had an online question session going for just over a couple of weeks and I’ve found it so interesting, and useful, that I’ve decided to run a series of other surveys on a various subjects and I’m calling Survey #2 The Sultans of Spin.

I think it’s the first survey of its kind and obviously, the more people who respond, the better. So please tell everyone you know about it.

Spin is the, “sometimes pejorative term signifying a heavily biased portrayal in one’s own favor of an event or situation,” the Wikipedia sums it up, continuing, spin, “often, though not always, implies disingenuous, deceptive and/or highly manipulative tactics.” And it’s, borrowed, says the post, “from ball sports such as cricket, where a spin bowler may impart spin on the ball during a delivery so that it will curve through the air or bounce in an advantageous manner”.

The Sultans of Spin examines spin-doctoring in the pejorative sense — the art of presenting stuff as it isn’t.

I have Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA in mind, for this particular exercise, but it’s not alone. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and most other cartel organizations are offered up as ‘trade’ outfits acting on various issues for, and on behalf of, ‘members’.

And there are literally hundreds of them run by smooth-talking, twinkle-toed reality adjustment specialists who are so fast on their verbal feet that their words never actually touch the ground.

They’re at the sharps ends of organisations such as the RIAA, MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), BPI (British Phonographic Industry), IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry), CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America), BSA (Business Software Alliance), FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft), and so on and so forth.

One of the most extreme examples of what spin can achieve comes in the manner in which RIAA fact realignment experts have turned a straightforward commercial concept, copyright infringement, into a major crime on a level with robbery, with which it’s now equated.

In The Sultans of Spin, RIAA questions are all based on direct quotes from the highly reliable and factual RIAA site, which in Talking With Your Kids About Tough Issues still says Hilary Rosen is the ‘chairman and ceo’.

She quit close to four years ago.

The results should be interesting and I’ll run them in a post when I wind The Sultans of Spin up in a couple of weeks.

I’ll also do a post on the results of the #1, the Reader Survey, in couple of days

Cheers! And thanks a lot for your help …

Jon
———–> “Good luck Jon”
TAKE THE SULTANS OF SPIN SURVEY

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