RIAA: Pay as we say, not as we do

theregister.co.uk — Despite the judge's ruling, laid down a month ago, Deborah Foster, who is waiting to receive $68,585.23 for attorney fees and costs, has yet heard back from the inglorious RIAA, much less received any money. Aug 15, 2007 View in Crawl 4

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wayneca Aug 15, 2007

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Yes, the RIAA is the music company corporation. They don't care about their product, their employees, or the goodwill of people in general. They just want more money so their stock can go up.

psyjoniz Aug 16, 2007

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and, i hate to say it, but the artists who sign up with those labels know what they are getting into..

pa42 Aug 16, 2007

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Norman ... did you even read what we said? our conversation had little to do with the instant case

dacheetah Aug 16, 2007

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Heliocentric model? People still believe this? I could have sworn that most people realised that the entire universe revolved around the RIAA. Everything works once you use the right epicycles, which make so much more sense than silly over-simplified near-eliptical oribits.

squigglyp Aug 16, 2007

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Napster was possibly the most revolutionary thing to happen to music since the adoption of optical media. The Industries lack of vision have since allowed several companies, Apple with iTunes most notably, to cut into their profits and they are extremely pissed off about it. For the record, downloading music that does not belong to you IS a violation of copyright. When you go to a store and buy a cd, you are not really paying for the plastic disc, you are paying a licensing fee that allows you to listen to the music. If you have not payed this fee for a song you have downloaded they do have the right to sue. That said, they are complete f**king idiots for actually attempting to exercise that right. There are dozens of other alternate solutions they could have attempted before resorting to such a drastic measure, and the iTunes model was one of them. They could have done as Trent Reznor has suggested in an interview, which would be to allow people to download the music for next to nothing, then sell a cd or a nice package of band-related goods to those of us who like having the physical objects. They could have supported the free press their bands were receiving with online radio instead of trying to force them all offline.When Naptser popped up that should have been their cue to take a look at how they would have to evolve, take stock of all the potential benefits of music sharing instead of only the immediate negative aspects of it. Yes, your singles sales will take a big hit, but concerts are getting a lot more crowded lately, even with the ridiculously high prices of tickets now, and the other merchandise is flying off the shelves, much of it for bands that would never have gotten the publicity had their music not been spread through the net. My own CD collection has lately been purchased based on albums i have downloaded, and i would not have purchased them otherwise. many of the bands i had never heard of before then, and based on one album, or just several tracks, i would proceed to buy 3 or 4 CD's. Were they to give further incentive to actually BUY the cd's, perhapse to include the sort of stuff you get on DVD's... maybe a second CD with interviews, videos, outtakes, etc, people would be more willing to purchase them. That the downloads are so prevalent should be a wake-up call that people do not consider the physical package to be worth the money. In some places a CD costs almost as much as a 2-Disc DVD that contains 8 hours of behind the scenes stuff, commentaries, deleted stuff, etc. Not only is that a good idea on the part of film-makers who want their stuff to be bought rather than downloaded, but they also have the brains to include trailers for other films they're making on the discs as well... It seems the record companies could stand to learn a lot from Hollywood's approach to giving people what they want./end rant