The RIAA still sucks.

[Quiggs]

washingtonpost.com

They can get bent.

[fisetdavid26]

MP3 players should be illegal then. How on Earth can you copy songs to your MP3 player if having music files on your computer - even if you own the CD - is illegal?

[johnnynumfiv]

Originally Posted by fisetdavid26

MP3 players should be illegal then. How on Earth can you copy songs to your MP3 player if having music files on your computer - even if you own the CD - is illegal?

Downloaded songs from itunes or another legal place.

[fisetdavid26]

Originally Posted by johnnynumfiv

Downloaded songs from itunes or another legal place.

Ah yes, I'm willing to spend $0.99 per song just to buy what I already own so it's legal on my computer. How clever, dear RIAA.

[Quiggs]

Buying songs twice ftl. I don't use iTunes; I have copies of all my CDs ripped from WMP to listen to on my computer. I am breaking the law apparently.

[kingofthering]

Holy crap.

This would mean I've done more illegal shit than Drakkie.

But total bullshit. Why can't I put my music on my computer? I bought the CD. I'm not making a profit off it.

[Cyco]

My computer IS my mp3 player

[Sledgehammer]

Basically you can extend this sort of copyright idea to reading a book and then copying/ quoting it in spoken tongue or a napkin.

"This just in, Jesus and God have just filed the largest law suit against the people of christian faith. The suit specifically tagets all priests who for the last few thousand years, quoted and wrote the words of the bible. Priests now looking for new material to avoid hefty penalties, see attached..."

I can see this going infront of the Supreme court and them giving the RIAA the finger and telling them to stop being officious ass hats and to get a life.

[Clivey]

Originally Posted by Quiggs

washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines

They can get bent.

Seconded.

[baddabang]

RIAA needs to lower it's standards. I suggest moving it's HQ to New Jersey.

[Alastor]

I believe the RIAA called ripped songs "unauthorized" which the article implies to be illegal. However, as I understand it unauthorized does not equal illegal, and ripping songs for personal use is still legal under 'fair use'.

[CdocZ]

Here's what I think they should do - feel free to discuss

- Stop investing further in am/fm radio and start the move (steadily) to digital
- Make a move towards more advertising and scouting for bands, rather than running them/producing them (also steadily)
- Let bands (once settled) produce themselves (as Radiohead recently showed was possible)

This way, the record companies survive and fulfill their purpose to spread the music of whatever band joins their "allegiance" (end signing, it leaves too much control to the record company). Furthermore, the bands will have much more freedom to make their own music, instead of being discovered and then asked to fill in a niche on that companies affiliated radio programs. The musicians will make more money while still getting the advertising they need, the amount of money people pay for music will go down but allow the musicians to still make money (Radiohead made an average of $10 per album sold), and the record companies get to survive.

The current technology that is out there/developing isn't the friend of the record company: the CD is dying with the massive amount of music online, and the radio is steadily being usurped by the digital radio (as prices drop). I don't see how they can have a long future ahead of them unless they make this move with the bands, which is a move towards bands being independently/semi-independently released.

As said earlier, feel free to discuss.

[Quiggs]

Originally Posted by CdocZ

The current technology that is out there/developing isn't the friend of the record company: the CD is dying with the massive amount of music online, and the radio is steadily being usurped by the digital radio (as prices drop). I don't see how they can have a long future ahead of them unless they make this move with the bands, which is a move towards bands being independently/semi-independently released.

That's a damn shame. MP3s and all their variants sound like garbage.

[zeppelin]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: f*ck the RIAA.

They are a bunch of dirty, law-manipulating scumbags who change and bend their policies to attack and sue people. Often times people who haven't even downloaded songs get screwed, rather someone else has downloaded through their network. They have no moral or ethic standards, and rather extort people to feed their overwhelming law machine. What's worse is little money they collect will actually go to the artists themselves, who often receive a (relatively) minuscule cut.

That said I thankfully live in Canada, a country with its head not (quite as far) up its own ass. Therefore I can download all the movies and music I please, as we've luckily got more important issues to deal with. I do still support artists, however; the ones actually deserving of my money.

[Alastor]

Originally Posted by Quiggs

That's a damn shame. MP3s and all their variants sound like garbage.

FLAC?