Rant-O-Matic: Don't get me started
Perhaps you caught the latest missive from the RIAA, the Recording Industry Association of America. In a new missive, RIAA claims that recording industry sales dropped by 7 percent this year primarily due to piracy. This is all part of the nonstop drumbeat from the RIAA and MPAA (the Jack Valenti/film industry mouthpiece) to restrict our freedom through the use of heavy-handed legislation, including the mandate to have controller chips embedded on all computers, stereos, VCRs and DVDs. In effect, what the RIAA and MPAA is shouting from every rooftop is that you are a criminal.
Bollocks.
Did it ever occur to the RIAA that record sales are down because our economy is down? And did it ever occur to the powers that be in the recording industry that the pop pablum and corporate rock that they're shilling is pure junk? Perhaps people are voting with their pocketbooks, not their Web browsers and peer-to-peer software, as RIAA would have you believe.
Yes, there are too many screenagers ripping off music. But the actions of the RIAA is only encouraging this. The more the recording industry tries to restrict the use of downloading, the more people will resist the intimidation. As for me, I'm dumb enough not to bother using Morpheus or LimeWire. I actually buy music. But in the eyes of the RIAA, I'm a criminal. I have an iPod. I rip legally purchased music into MP3s and transfer that to another device. For that, I should be punished and restricted.
Gee, that will make me want to run out and buy more CDs. Right.
If the recording industry had any common sense, they would listen to their customers. If we want to use and download music from the Internet, perhaps it might occur to the RIAA and its membership that we might even buy music that we could download. But that would be logical. And the industry has no need to behave like that.
Memo to the RIAA, MPAA and the powers that be: Listen. Watch. Treat your customers with respect. The customer is always right. And our actions should be telling you something. Instead of punishing us, encourage us to behave legally. Encourage us to be better customers. If you impose restrictions or try to choke our freedoms through heavy-handed legislation, rest assured that we'll find ways around it. We're smarter than you think.
Perhaps you caught the latest missive from the RIAA, the Recording Industry Association of America. In a new missive, RIAA claims that recording industry sales dropped by 7 percent this year primarily due to piracy. This is all part of the nonstop drumbeat from the RIAA and MPAA (the Jack Valenti/film industry mouthpiece) to restrict our freedom through the use of heavy-handed legislation, including the mandate to have controller chips embedded on all computers, stereos, VCRs and DVDs. In effect, what the RIAA and MPAA is shouting from every rooftop is that you are a criminal.
Bollocks.
Did it ever occur to the RIAA that record sales are down because our economy is down? And did it ever occur to the powers that be in the recording industry that the pop pablum and corporate rock that they're shilling is pure junk? Perhaps people are voting with their pocketbooks, not their Web browsers and peer-to-peer software, as RIAA would have you believe.
Yes, there are too many screenagers ripping off music. But the actions of the RIAA is only encouraging this. The more the recording industry tries to restrict the use of downloading, the more people will resist the intimidation. As for me, I'm dumb enough not to bother using Morpheus or LimeWire. I actually buy music. But in the eyes of the RIAA, I'm a criminal. I have an iPod. I rip legally purchased music into MP3s and transfer that to another device. For that, I should be punished and restricted.
Gee, that will make me want to run out and buy more CDs. Right.
If the recording industry had any common sense, they would listen to their customers. If we want to use and download music from the Internet, perhaps it might occur to the RIAA and its membership that we might even buy music that we could download. But that would be logical. And the industry has no need to behave like that.
Memo to the RIAA, MPAA and the powers that be: Listen. Watch. Treat your customers with respect. The customer is always right. And our actions should be telling you something. Instead of punishing us, encourage us to behave legally. Encourage us to be better customers. If you impose restrictions or try to choke our freedoms through heavy-handed legislation, rest assured that we'll find ways around it. We're smarter than you think.
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