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aymnostalgico said:Can someone explain to me why are we boycotting RIAA, so I know what to support? I know all the stuff about illegal download that's going on. I just want to know what are we standing for as members of amcorner.com boycotting.
This is a distinction that I've believed should be kept into perspective. After all, the old saying goes, two wrongs don't make a right, and thanks for underscoring that . . .Rudy said:It's not saying that what the downloaders and pirates do isn't wrong: it is wrong. But it's also wrong the way the RIAA is handling it.
W.B. said:They have also shown a callous disregard for the consumer, making it a point of treating them like subhuman garbage and engaging in the most vicious stereotypes against them that, if directed at minorities or at certain ethnic or religious groups, would lead to cries of "racial profiling" and calls for their heads.
Because once you have what the RIAA's been pulling, then you've essentially stooped to the level of such disreputable countries as Cuba, North Korea, or Zimbabwe -- and this, in turn, reduces our credibility as a nation with our lecturing such retrograde states on human rights.Rudy said:And does it not bother anyone that the recording industry is owned mainly by non-U.S. companies, and yet they have access to the U.S. political process via the RIAA? That is wrong as well. The RIAA is not the United Nations.
Their latest nonsense is having a John Doe lawsuit ready to sue people that they don't even know the identity of, except for the downloaders' IP addresses. "I don't know who you are, but I can still sue you."
The RIAA is sick and wrong. In the proper venue, a judge with any sense of the law (rather than one they've "bought" by funding their campaigns) would blow holes right through their tactics. The cure for the music industry's ills certainly does not lie in the RIAA's jack-booted thuggery and treating their source of income (us consumers) as garbage.
alpertfan said:I predict that once the SACD format takes over, regular CDs will cost ten dollars (what cassette tapes are now valued at).
In the end, it's all about money.
In truth, they couldn't care less about the artist(s) at all -- except to cynically use him/her/them as pawns to serve their own nefarious ends. Sort of reminds me of those dictatorships in certain parts of the world that keep the masses in perpetual poverty and squalor so as to keep them always riled up against America and the West.alpertfan said:It's all about money. The RIAA claims it's looking out for artists' interests, but in reality, they're looking out for #1 (themselves).