Some days you have to wonder if anyone at the RIAA actually reads their official statements before unleashing them on the public. At the very least maybe they should check to see if they pass the giggle test.
The latest bit of nonsense is a submission to the Opinion section of a Nashville, Tennessee newspaper claiming the reason they stopped suing P2P users was because the campaign was ... [ read the full article ]
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It is now time for the courts to do their jobs instead of lining their pockets with special interest groups and megalomaniacs like the RIAA and MPAA.
Jeff
RIAA is a fascist group...and fascist groups don't worry about telling the truth. They just say whatever they want and keep saying it over and over again until they believe it themselves.
Soooooo.......kick users off the internet is their goal?? Then what??? Reduce users' ability to download and legally purchase songs?? Can you saying "shoot yourself in the foot"?
Kicking people off the net will be counter productive & will cost them in lost sales,it's the illegal downloaders that are the ones who will end up buying more music,games & movies than those who don't download,they themselves RIAA,MPAA have admitted this,that is illegal downloaders are their biggest customers & this here below says it all that they have no idea what the hell they're doing
As to Kennedy's assertion that the RIAA was fighting to preserve legal online music services, that is almost not worth responding to. In fact those services had to drag the labels kicking and screaming into offering downloads in the first place.
It was label mandated DRM, not file sharing, that created the biggest barrier to legal sales. Removing the DRM boosted sales in online music stores, something else the labels had to be coerced into. RIAA lawsuits had nothing to do with it.
The law suits only became a failure when they became too greedy. Once they started suing for serious money and people got their own lawyers they found they couldn't win. They committed felonies to gather evidence to prosecute person that may or may not have committed a crime. Since then they have been very effective. They have gone back to illegal acts but have not gone to court. The block ports and harass torrent users as well as hack into computers to maintain their 'black lists'. That has forced heavy users to use paid for services. Users download less if they are paying for it. As least Warner is starting to cave.
The RIAA and MPAA only care about getting funding. They don't care about their clients, they don't care about the industry, and they don't care about sales. They want to get paid...and they do this by making insane claims about how piracy hurts the industry, by doing showy public inquisitions of single mothers, and by claiming that piracy is going up while (at the same time) claiming that their actions have reduced piracy.
The only reason that record companies still pay them to do all this is because record companies are run by the kind of morons who spent many years refusing to sell MP3s because they could be pirated easily while selling CDs that could be pirated just as easily; at higher quality; for less money and at much lower profit margins. I almost wish the doctor had dropped me on my head when I was born...I could have been a record company executive!
