I found this pretty ammusing: http://www.downhillbattle.org/riaa/ hell if im bored someday i might even go out and do it

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Yeah, how fucking stupid would you be to waste your time and do that. Theres nothing wrong with the music industry, there are much better things to do with your time .... like learn to play music or get a job.

How.. delightfully.. insipid..

Its these kind of idiots that piss me off.

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You guys work for record labels or something?
You seemed a tad vehement about your dislike towards them.
I'm a little confused on how I feel about the RIAA. On one hand, if everyone's downloading music for nothing, artists aren't going to get money, but on the bigger hand, music (along with art, literature, the water in your house, the cable on your TV, the GROUND YOU LIVE ON) should be absolutely free. Of course, this will never happen.
Property is based on theft, the idea that the first "landowners" used swords and guns instead of deeds and paper money.
I've been thinking hevily about this subject a lot lately. What the hell is the difference between a 100 dollar bill and a 1 dollar bill? They're both paper, they're just representing how much gold/precious stones/land/whatever the country has. Of course, I told my history teacher this and he said "Ok, then give me all your hundreds and I'll give you all my ones."
But thats how people think, they don't understand that all this "money" is only worth the markings people put on them. When banks make loans, they can loan up to something like 8 times what those people actually have. Where does that "money" come from? We live in a society where people either go insane/kill others/kill themselves over these tickets we call collateral.
This relates back to music being free because, with something like oil, or land, you can supposedly put "prices" on them. But with things like music or art, different things are worth different prices to different people.
We can't generalize someones emotions into the price of something. A therapist or just one CD could, and has been known to, save peoples lives. The only difference is the price.

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U R A FAG, YO! LEEVE DA RECURD LABLES ALONE! WHUT A BUNCH OF IGNERANT BASTURDS YOU GUYS R!

thanks for lightening the mood

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At least it was an attempt to add a little bit of retarded "fun" to this very retarded post.

HAPPY!?

they have some guts that they do it but its just a waste of time and money

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yeah, i know. Money is what the government says its worth. Makes sense, doesnt it?

Well whats bullshit is RIAA acually gets like 2 cents from every cd-r sold.... And they sue 7 year old kids and 76 year old men. And all this because they dont know what music to market and what price to sell it for. I no longer Buy Metal Blade CD's becuase MetalBlade is a part of riaa, yeh it sounds dumb but im not gonna give riaa mroe money so they can sue 7 year old kids, and the artist see no money from sales until after they sell about 500,000 CD's which is pretty damn hard to due, exspecially cause metal gets very little exposure. So instead of buying CD's i just goto nearly every concert that comes through here, that where the artist acually make money.

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REPRESENT *in thick ghetto accent*


But yeah, its like, either I buy this CD I really want, and the artist gets a little money, or I download it all and burn it on to cd, and the artist gets nothing. There are actually some bigger artists that put their whole records online because they don't support the RIAA. I think REM was one of them.
But yeah, the only good way to support the bands is to buy a ticket to their show and spend your money on their merch.......Or just send them money.....


"I would if I knew you weren't going to spend it on BOOZE"

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Im surprised REM was able to do that, most bands dont even own the right to there songs... yeh pretty fuckin sad. They put there hard work into the music and they dont even own it anymore. They could probably be sued for downloading their own songs lmao

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I'd like to see that happen that would be the ultimate in irony....



but...you'd think they'd at LEAST have a copy of their album, right? I mean come on.. you dont think Glen Benton doesnt have Forever Underground framed in his home? Something like that

But the artists get an up front sum of money on their contract so its not like they don't get payed. Record companies take risks on all their artists, so the artist needs to pay back production cost, advertising etc.

(Originally posted by BLS)

It all depends on their publishing situation and the deals they agree to, you'll find that most artists who wish to retain the rights to their own songs are able to if they go the right way about it.

I really don't see the problem with the RIAA, I don't know why so many of you hate it. You get to listen to your favourite music and can buy their cd's, does it really matter if its not on the radio?

I just dont like RIAA because they blame file sharing on their losses, maybe if they marketed mroe than just the same b/s music then they would see a sales increase just maybe, and im also not in agreement with suing 7 year old kids

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I could care less about the radio. I just think that conditions could be improved for musicians. I mean, I want to see the bands I like get all the respect they deserve, and for our generation to get the same, for the few that go on to be in bands.
But ultimatley.......I guess I really don't care about the RIAA.

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Yeah it is a nice thought, but the reality is that companies are interested only in money, therefore they need only to market the music with the most mainstream appeal. It is called the music "business" after all.

But would it really be too expensive for them to market non-mainstream stuff too? I mean, I can't really see how it would not be able to pay for itself, and as long as it does it's no loss no gain.

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Yeh but you see RIAA rather waste their money suing 7 year old kids and 76 year old grandpa's the use some of that money to acually help artist, this suing isent helping anyone.

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