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- UPGR4Y3DD, on 01/14/2008, -53/+497F*** the RIAA
- TomFrost, on 01/14/2008, -8/+363Stars? Censorship? Hell no.
***** THE RIAA. - entrophize, on 01/14/2008, -2/+285"The RIAA has quickly become one of the most disliked organizations in the world."
Were they ever really liked at all? - MonsterChaOS, on 01/14/2008, -9/+208***** THE **AA!
- Trillion08, on 01/14/2008, -2/+170The RIAA speaks --- And no one listens
- atmclipse, on 01/14/2008, -5/+147I didn't have to read the article and I already like them less.
- lyzz, on 01/14/2008, -6/+119From the "expert" in the article, "I simply don't understand the logic. Look, I'm not here to endorse the stealing of music and I encourage everyone to buy it"
For the 10,000th time. It's copyright infringement and not stealing. Theft has much softer penalties. - hinchy34, on 01/14/2008, -0/+90This man achieved mad hate against both organizations. High Five!
- pyper, on 01/14/2008, -4/+79This bit interested me.
"Sadly, this statement tells you everything you need to know about the RIAA. Does this organization actually believe that people who have the right to vote and go to war don't have the ability to make sound decisions about intellectual property? Maybe it has nothing to do with lack of development and everything to do with an extreme distaste for the recording industry."
You can join the military and die for your country when your 18, 19, 20 but if you want to have a beer or gamble a little bit, sorry but your not old enough or responsible enough, need to be 21. One age across the board seems more reasonable, I never understood that about the US. - inactive, on 01/14/2008, -2/+72Mouth of RIAA = Ass of RIAA
- Radian, on 01/14/2008, -0/+68Anybody that's been to the far-east -- or a Chinatown in any large American city for that matter -- realizes how widespread "real" piracy is. College students are sharing music, not profiting off of it & exposing their friends to new artists. Meanwhile, Asian piracy cartels are busy pressing CDs, laser-printing artwork and selling counterfit discs on the street for a profit. Who's the bigger problem here?
Jeez, I'm glad I'm not a college student anymore. I'd hate to be thought of as the "low hanging fruit" on the RIAA's hitlist.
Prepare for a firestorm. - zephyr42, on 01/14/2008, -3/+66As a college student I am APPALLED to hear that the industry that has turned out bands that I love, thinks me a pre-schooler with no capacity original thought and a hatred of music. ***** you RIAA, ***** what you stand for, ***** your ignorance!
- dansvan, on 01/14/2008, -1/+55"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon
- getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -1/+53Of course, Duckworth disagrees. She contends that although some may dislike the RIAA, "amongst the general public, the favorability ratings of the record industry remain as positive as ever and surpass other forms of entertainment like movie or TV studios."
WHAT?!??!?!! - Scyth3, on 01/14/2008, -3/+511. Pick an IP range
2. Send everyone in that IP range a letter on how they did illegal stuff on the internet
3. Register p2plawsuits-r-us.com
4. Have them all pay you through an online checkout process.
5. ???
6. PROFIT! - minoss, on 01/14/2008, -1/+47I'm a twenty some college graduate with plenty of expendable income and little financial responsibility. I will never, ever buy a CD, mp3, or anything else where even a penny goes to the RIAA. With the plethora of podcasts I don't even listen to radio anymore. I'm the type of person they are alienating with these ***** lawsuits. The same people who would have no issues spending hundreds of dollars a year on their product. Their loss I guess.
- TwinTurboMike, on 01/14/2008, -1/+46Kinda like how our congressmen and senators 'digg' (vote on) bills they never read?
- IEatHamburgers, on 01/14/2008, -0/+41***** THE ***A!
Can't forget the CRIA. - bejayel, on 01/14/2008, -1/+41"Hey, i have an idea. What is the one demographic that is almost surely easily attackable even without proof they are downloading? STUDENTS. Yes students who are the future of this country and already have absolutely no money anyway. All we have to do is some stupid press release and try to make it sound like a good thing and that we actually considered other options."
***** you you stupid ***** bitches. We need to find a way to stop the RIAA. - bskerr88, on 01/14/2008, -1/+41"College students have reached a stage in life when their music habits are crystallized," Duckworth said. "And their appreciation for intellectual property has not yet reached its full development."
and for that little jab I'll take Metallica discography and the juno soundtrack on the side, thanks - Makaveli604, on 01/14/2008, -2/+40``When asked why the RIAA is going after an easy target--college students--the response made me cringe: "College students have reached a stage in life when their music habits are crystallized," Duckworth said. "And their appreciation for intellectual property has not yet reached its full development."
So because I like one artist of a genre I will automatically like the rest of them.. There is a reason software offers free trials, and why cars give test drives.. I can`t listen to an album my friend reccomended on the radio. If the industry offered this, I might consider lessening my P2P use.. but even if they do not, downloading music has led me to find artists I would not have otherwise and I`ve bought many albums I liked the download of.
The industry should thank what and waffles, made me buy more albums than MuchMusic ever did. - inactive, on 01/14/2008, -0/+38With American laws Raping and Murdering has a Softer Penalty.
- Rochmndx, on 01/14/2008, -0/+38The RIAA was initially formed to support a standard EQ curve for LP records in the early 1950s. Everybody liked em then.
- MarkOfTheDead, on 01/14/2008, -0/+36The Recording Industry.
- pigfister, on 01/14/2008, -0/+35The BPI Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI.
The RIAA Soundexchange Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI.
The MPAA Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, DISNEY, PARAMOUNT, FOX. - thedragon4453, on 01/14/2008, -1/+36I was unaware anyone ever liked the RIAA. They live in such a delusional fantasy world though, who knows.
- inactive, on 01/14/2008, -0/+34That's an exclamation point at the end buddy.
Who's failing now? - PFinn, on 01/14/2008, -1/+34who?
- ViralMonkey, on 01/14/2008, -2/+33Cease and desist.
- TomFrost, on 01/14/2008, -1/+32Maybe they were considering Sony's feelings.
- inactive, on 01/14/2008, -0/+30The best part is that we don't have to pay $15 for crappy CDs and make bad artists millionaires anymore.
- TheTap, on 01/14/2008, -4/+30The massive public hatred was started under the "leadership" of Hillary Rosen, a name people will not soon forget.
- Totalsam, on 01/14/2008, -0/+26As a college student, I have to disagree with you. I produce digital music and other media, and I have accepted the future of intellectual property. The money is in advertising. In an age where I can promote myself virally for practically nothing, I don't need the Recording Industry to take a cut of my profits. I'll distribute, I'll promote, and I'll roll with the punches. The RIAA is a dying industry, and it's obvious. Suing a 10 year-old is ridiculous.
- baldgye, on 01/14/2008, -0/+26"EMI--is considering pulling all of its funding by March 31, if major changes in policy and structure are not made."
bout ***** time - kingmanic, on 01/14/2008, -0/+25Previous to the lawsuits RIAA was simply a trade organization which wasn't liked or disliked but were behind a lot fo sound quality work for recordings.
- Zuggy, on 01/14/2008, -1/+25Something else that the RIAA doesn't take into account are those that pirate just to spite them. I know a few people like that, that will pay for paraphernalia from their favorite bands or by 3 or 4 tickets to shows, but will pirate a bands music just to spite the RIAA
- eatbeefjerky, on 01/14/2008, -3/+27FTA:
"It was becoming clearer that despite cool new legal services and the ongoing educational efforts, too many students--some of music's biggest fans--were getting their music illegally and learning the wrong lessons about stealing and the law. Bringing lawsuits was by no means our first choice, but a necessary step we had to take."
I don't consider subscriptions that remove the ability to use the music once you stop paying "cool". Additionally...
"College students have reached a stage in life when their music habits are crystallized," Duckworth said. "And their appreciation for intellectual property has not yet reached its full development."
I appreciate intellectual property so much that I'm unwilling to give money to the greedy record labels that had no part in the creation of music **I** enjoy. It's been said 100,000 times, but it never gets old; ***** the RIAA. - sx66gns, on 01/14/2008, -0/+21yea , suing your customers is like biting the hand that feeds you , We are getting closer and closer to a old school Mexican stand off here.
Either they ***** OFF and let us demo the music and then if we like it enough we buy it or We stop listening to this crap completely , the real talent will adapt and overcome while kid rock & rapper of the month will do ring tones & fruit loop commercials makes a ***** to me either way.
***** YOU , The music I enjoy I support at small ***** Austin & Dallas bars , The kids in Norway are at the pub buying shirts & discs , the kids in Romania are paying for tickets and discs the good ***** will never sell more than 30,000 and that's considered a failure by the "Music Industry" So ***** them to. - offspring06, on 01/14/2008, -0/+20I quit buying Cds because of the RIAA. I hope we see the day when music isn't controlled by large corporations.
- inactive, on 01/14/2008, -1/+20Oh yes, it's that time again. Time to post yet ANOTHER one of these:
******* THE RIAA** - mourne, on 01/14/2008, -2/+21Don't punish the artists.. jeez
- Johnson2008, on 01/14/2008, -5/+23Radiohead recently released their album for however much the user decided to pay for. If you wanted to pay .01$ for it, thats how much you paid. It's estimated that they still made about ten bucks a cd. We certainly need something like the RIAA, but we dont need them hunting us down like terrorist.
- iiBeLiEvE, on 01/14/2008, -0/+18Sentences with "RIAA" in them make me angry.
- modnar, on 01/14/2008, -3/+21Someone should go slap the bitch.
- GorfTron, on 01/14/2008, -0/+18File sharing does not matter. Terrabyte, portable drives and a short walk in the dorm hall can share all the files a guy could want. They can't beat the technology.
- donte, on 01/14/2008, -5/+23I dislike the RIAA as much as the next digger, but there's nothing new in this article that we haven't already read on digg a billion times. It's the tech media fluff equivalent to "gas prices will be higher during the labor day weekend" and "it's busy at the mall around christmas time." Sorry -- just starving for some new content, that's all.
- bdbr, on 01/14/2008, -0/+17"Of course, the question is not necessarily whether the public likes Sony BMG or EMI, the real question is whether or not people like the RIAA itself."
Actually that is NOT the real question. The RIAA doesn't sell anything, so it doesn't matter if people hate them. If they hate the RIAA but like the labels, they're buying music from the very labels that represent what they hate. The real question is whether people understand that the RIAA represents those labels.
People need to be informed. Understand who the RIAA labels are, and avoid them. Don't buy RIAA label music; don't share RIAA label music, don't listen to RIAA label music. You won't get sued, you'll pay less for music (and concerts), and you'll probably be exposed to better music. - sesstreets, on 01/14/2008, -0/+17"Previous to the lawsuits RIAA was simply a trade organization which wasn't liked or disliked but were behind a lot fo sound quality work for recordings."
They should stick to that. - kingmanic, on 01/14/2008, -0/+16The MPAA have moved slower since piracy hasn't eaten as much of their cake yet. Simply due to the time it takes to grab a 300-700meg movies. Despite some Diggers assertions, broadband isn't that broad in most of the US thus HD or even SD movie distribution isn't as common as music distribution. Legit or otherwise.
- CatalystDM, on 01/14/2008, -0/+16The RIAA doesn't turn out the bands that you love, they make the bands that you love sound *****.
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