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RIAA wants royalties from public radio
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 25 May, 2007
Looking yet again for another stream of revenue, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has set its sights on public radio. The trade group that represents the music industry in the United States, believes that radio has been given free play time for too many years. The RIAA believes that this fact is unfair.
It's not just the RIAA either who think its time for public radio ... [ read the full article ]
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rokmsokm
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6. June 2007 @ 05:53 |
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I hate that these people are so talented that they don't have to anything but sit on their fat @sses and complain about not getting paid for something they did 50 years ago. If they (the artists) can't manage their money then go to mickey d's and get a damn job. As far as the RIAA... you wonder why p2p is soooooo popular. Sue and gouge the customer....what a great business model.
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Mez
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6. June 2007 @ 06:35 |
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gmontalc, this is not communism it is captialism alive and well and democracy has falled asleep at the wheel. We just need to fight for our rights instead of just complain. I have email my congressman about these issues when it was time to takeaway more of our rights. That bill did fail so some of us must have done something. Politicians will sell you down the river for 2 cents if they think no one is watching them. Even if you can't vote you can still email your congressman. They will pay attention to you if you have a correct ZIP code. They do not reaserch if you are a registered voter but they do check the ZIP code on your address. If it is in their district they assume you can vote. You can't just complain they will never remember. You need to wait for a bill that violates your rights and tell him you will not vote for him if he votes for the bill. They assume for every contact there are 100 more voters that feel the same way that are too lazy to write them. They take the nasty - grams very seriously.
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guenthar
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6. June 2007 @ 13:49 |
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What the RIAA is doing isn't even Capitalism (trade goods for money and money for goods) but actually just stealing since they are just sueing people to make a profit.
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pmshah
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6. June 2007 @ 19:38 |
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You should follow the election results in India. It is one big time leveller. Although our democracy is far from perfect you do see the complete turnarounds in response to issues close to their hearts.
Unfortunately the 2 party system of US is not working too well. What was the only & easiest way for electing a president some 235 years ago - electoral college - when peoples' representatives had to travel by horses & buggies is no longer valid in today's times of very easy & fast communication. Theoretically an individual candidate can poll more than 60% of total voles & still be defeated. Really a very strange way of working.
They should follow the French model of presidential elections. It can guarantee you fair election of the candidate with very definitely more than 50% share of the votes cast.
BTW even in Japan they still do use paper ballots which always leave a trail & since hanky panky can be done with "Electronic Voting Machines" quite easily.
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6. June 2007 @ 19:50 |
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They can want all they want. I want a million dollars is it going to happen NO!!
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Mez
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7. June 2007 @ 01:59 |
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guenthar, capitalism is private companies maximizing profits by any means possible, ethical or not. That is exactly was the RIAA is doing.
pmshah, the reason the elections work so well in India is the voters must have been fed up and voted the bad guys out. This happened at our local govenment. Our local government was so bad we also voted all the bad guys out. 12 of the 13 persons were voting for land developers and against the voters. The only person of the 13 that was re-elected was the one good guy. Things are different now the elected officials know the public in our area this in not the time for hanky-panky.
Paper is just as easy to cheat as computers. You can make a "cheat proof" system with computers. In reality you can cheat but there will be a record. You write the votes to write once disks.
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guenthar
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7. June 2007 @ 11:15 |
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That is the way it is now but I'm talking about how it was originally but now it has been corrupted into something that should not be called capitalism but something closer to an economic dictatorship.
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18. June 2007 @ 17:55 |
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Don't they already pay some kind of payment to the RIAA? How could the RIAA overlook this for 50+ years?
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guenthar
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19. June 2007 @ 11:24 |
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The RIAA gets free advertisement and the radio stations only play certain songs that they are allowed to play and only a certain length of that song. The RIAA is already making a very large amount of money through sales and they don't have to pay for very much advertising so the RIAA is getting a good deal by saving billions of dollars on advertising.
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19. June 2007 @ 12:55 |
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Originally posted by guenthar:
The RIAA gets free advertisement and the radio stations only play certain songs that they are allowed to play and only a certain length of that song. The RIAA is already making a very large amount of money through sales and they don't have to pay for very much advertising so the RIAA is getting a good deal by saving billions of dollars on advertising.
not to mention normal radio shows and their bumper music has to be selected and ok'd from whatever conglomerate they work for.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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Amir89
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1. January 2008 @ 15:03 |
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Unfknbelievable!!!
What is it with the RIAA lately, have they gone on some sort of Grand Revenue Hunt?
So obviously the iPod and other MP3 players are also illegal because they allow music to be copied onto them?
And therefore iTunes, etc.. are also illegal software because they allow you to 'rip' CDs.
So following this logic, the RIAA should also sue Apple, Creative, iRiver and anybody involved in producing MP3 players and CD ripping software.
Woops looks like the CD format is probably illegal too as it doesn't come with DRM so they should sue all companies that produce CDs, especially the awful people at 3M, TDK and Verbatim who produce writable CDs!
And then they should also sue the whole of the music industry for producing music on CDs.
Finally.. the would need to sue themselves as they represent the music industry and they can't afford to represent piracy.
Extra, Extra: RIAA sues self for copyright infringement and demands that it be forced to admit it's illegal
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