Comments on: RIAA Officially Crazy, Calls Radio ‘A Form of Piracy’

By: RealRadio

RealRadio — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:52:19 +0000

are any of you folks actually in radio? just curious. are any of you actually working (as in earning a living) professional musicians? again, just curious. I am and have been both … can see both sides of the debate … and wish for the entire performance royalty issue revisited in a different light. Currently, terrestrial radio pays both the publisher/songwriter royalty and the performer royalty if they stream online. Currently, independent musicians can earn their performance royalty if they sign up to be compensated w/ SoundExhange. However, unless an “indie” is registered with ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC, they will not receive a songwriter royalty. It’s an interesting issue, one that I research daily it seems.

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Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:13:26 +0000

[...] has to stop. I would give them a single penny and call it good. Here is more proof of some crazy RIAA fact Lets form an angy mob march to the RIAAs presidents House and burn it down in the name of all that [...]

By: dubstylee

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

I’ll have what they are smoking

By: ConfusedMime

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

Crack Rocks

By: mountain_rage

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

Sure make it so radio has to pay royalties. But do it differently make it so bands can opt out of being paid. That way people who want exposure can get air time while the RIAA fades to black. The way internet radio has to pay royalties to any band they play is ridiculous government basically mandated the RIAA’s business model on everyone. Many and like thousands of independent artist would love to get radio exposure without compense and they would get it if this law passed with such an allowance. Sadly the lobbiest know this and won’t allow it to ever happen too bad I thought the western world was supposed to be about open markets.

By: Mord_Sith

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

Free market if you have the money to pay for it instead of cult of personality it’s a cult of greed and human stupidity coupled together make a very bad combination if not properly monitored.

When the pendulum swings back at them they frivolously attempt to stem the tide by destroying everything that made them in the beginning the fans and the music I make no claim at being a major music consumer but at the same time they think they’re a government unto themselves and deserve to throw unbidden yokes upon the people who simply want to hear a good ditty or two.

Ok enough of this philosophizing their time has come and like all dying beasts they struggle for their last breaths just like we all will if this shocks you get ready because they’ll try to be as heavy handed as possible to support the beast before they can no longer do so and the common people will be whom they blame for their own actions in alienating the fans and abusing their musicians.

By: manakazero

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

Isn’t radio traditionally the #1 promotional tool of new music from the big labels?! If radio helps drive sales of new music (or old music) do the labels really need to be paid again? I think not!

By: PBK_

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

Making radio pay royalties will make radio not want to play music and will probably eventually kill radio altogether.

By: wapazoid

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

Reason #6821 why the RIAA needs to be removed from the equation entirely. All mainstream bands should drop their labels and go indy with purely digital distribution at a *fair* price. The RIAA isn’t protecting anyone from copyright infringement. People want what they want and if you screw them long enough they’ll just screw you right back. As for music videos… who the hell watches videos these days let alone knows of a station that actually plays them? Oh wait MTV has a whole 15 minute block of music before the 23 1/2 hours of “reality” TV. Radio stations should be encouraged to play *any* track *without royalties* from a band’s new album not just the same damn cookie-cutter “hit” over and over again. It’s time to kiss the $18 CD goodbye forever along with RIAA big wigs that actually haven’t enjoyed music (let alone sex) since 1964.

Ok I’m done.

By: w31n3r

w31n3r — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

lmao i love the title of this article…yup it’s really official this time