gizmodo.com — Gizmodo has declared March the month to boycott the RIAA. Read the story and see how you can help. "We want to get the word out to as many people as humanly possible that we can all send a message by refusing to buy any album put out by an RIAA label."
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Closed AccountFeb 24, 2007
@akinder:Welcome to digg. You must be new here."And by boycotting, they mean stop listening, using, etc, the music."No, they mean stop buying. The RIAA doesn't get paid every time you "listen, use, etc" their music. They would like to, but they don't."Not just 'I don't want to pay for it, so Im going to steal it', which is the Digg mentality."Brave man, saying that here. I'll save my comment about "stealing" for further down..."If you hate the RIAA that much, then stop listening to any music produced by the companies,"Here, I'll fix that: "then stop BUYING any music produced by the companies". It is fine to listen to the music you already own if you wish to comply with this boycott, obviously, and, if it is legal where you live, to download it freely."don't just steal it and feel better about yourself because you 'stuck it to the man'."How can you steal bits? You can't without deleting them. There is a difference between moving and copying. If I walk into a friends house, see a picture on the table, and stick it in my briefcase and walk home, that is stealing. If I take the picture, make a copy of it, and then put the picture back and take the copy home, my friend wouldn't care the slightest bit. Nor should he, much less should he sue me for it.The law doesn't define copyright infringement as theft. Strangely enough, it defines it as copyright infringement. Funny how that works, isn't it?""OMG infringement != stealing" morons in 3.2.1.."Amazing how many people call other people morons for their opinions. As I have stated elsewhere: I think that is moronic in and of itself, but that's just my opinion. :)Oh, and:0.
Closed AccountFeb 24, 2007
You are completely undermining indie music. That is like saying "open source software is free for a reason, nobody wants to run it."
Closed AccountFeb 24, 2007
Does this mean I'll have to boycott the RIAA for just 1 month instead of 12?
praptakFeb 24, 2007
"This will work about as well as Don't Buy Gas Day. People will just wait until the protest period is over, forget it ever happened, and buy what they WOULD'VE bought during that period. "What you described is still better than nothing. The deferred purchases would show in the sales statistics (provided that enough people do it), thus conveying the message to the labels.
Closed AccountFeb 24, 2007
no, it isn't
Closed AccountFeb 24, 2007
Most of the world can... It's just funny how America(The US part) boasts about freedoms every time they get the chance, and they can't even share s**t. I'm not putting down the US, but grow some balls and defend your freedom... And to be clear, I'm originally from a third world country, no I'm not poor, yes I've always had a computer and everything you can have in the US, and yes, I can legally share whatever I want, my phones aren't tapped, and when my president starts s**t, the people stop it within a week.
azinfernoMar 2, 2007
Can't hold off buying the new NIN album for a month? Whatever, you're a loser but whatever. At least don't buy it at Walmart. I'm not one of these people who obsessively hates Walmart but they censor their music. Not a big a big deal to most of us who buy our music elsewhere? Wrong, Walmart is the biggest seller of music in the world therefore labels usually won't even let their artists put out am explicit CD for fear that Walmart won't carry it. Just download a bitorrent client and a copy of peerguardian of safepeer.