Comments on: RIAA War With Webcasters Really a War on Indie Artists and Labels?

By: meyou123

meyou123 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

It would not suprise me at all to find out that THIS is the reason the major labels are wanting such STUPID fees for webcasting enforced!

I hope someone can bring this into a courtroom….mabye they can show the difference to a judge. Because it seems like it is giving an unfair advantage to the major labels so that they can have more major label stuff on webcasting…which would only pollute it with junk music like regular radio is.

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I already knew that was a major reason for the enforcement if it wasn’t they would of just asked for requested content to be charged. Why would they want other labels to profit from their push. Its really not that hard to see that this was a big motivator for the law. If only politicians had foresight these days…

By: Zoness

Zoness — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

There going to force the entire music listening population on to p2p networks eventually exactly what they don’t want. Yeah this is all totally stupid I agree but with all of this bad work the RIAA has they are eventually going to implode….someday….

By: du2vye

du2vye — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

This is a huge story and it’s long overdue. RIAA claims to “represent 90% of the music sold in the U.S.” which is accepted as fact. The fact is most musicians do REGISTER with the RIAA for royalties – but that does not equal REPRESENTATION such as a label does.

This article successfully shows this debate is not about price – com’on would so many people pluck down $300 – $600 for players if it was just about the cost? But this whole thing is about CONTROLLING the marketplace i.e. what you and I have access to and listen to.

The L.A. Times published an article about a study done in Canada which showed only 25% of piracy was using P2P networks and it was a small drop in the bucket used by people who didn’t have a strong sales record in the marketplace anyway. Get real – how many albums can a college kid afford? When I was in school the most anyone had were maybe 5 – 10 at any time. And those were HEAVILY traded. That’s why the best used record stores were around universities (which the RIAA would also like to stop).

This is so stupid. Just the idea that downloading a song could be considered equal to a violent crime and a felony or has “terrorist” roots is showing how gullible and silly a greedy congress can be. RIAA’s copyright actions are laying the ground work for the way all individually created content will be handled outside of the traditional business model – including films artwork and software. Just stopping RIAA is not enough. The laws need to change.