I hate the RIAA
The litigous happy Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
sued a small tech company, named IIS, in Arizona for having an MP3 server on their system which employees could enjoy while they sit at work. Rather than face a lengthy copyright battle in court, the IIS settled for $1million dollars. RIAA lawyer Matt Oppenheim stated that "This sends a clear message that there are consequences if companies allow their resources to further copyright infringement." Matt, you can kiss my white, pastey ass! According to the Home Recording Act section 1008:
No copyright infringement lawsuit may be brought based on consumers' noncommercial use of digital or analog recording devices to copy prerecorded music.
Might does not make right. All you have done here is limit the reach of non-mainstream artists and piss off countless office workers whose companies are now yanking the plug on thier MP3 servers because they are scared of you. This does not in turn make us want to go to a corporation sponsored music store and shell out $15 for the latest No Doubt discharge, rather we'll spend more time and money investing in our own servers, iPods, time on Morpheus, etc. The genie is out of the bottle. Quit being a pain in the ass. Quit going ofter small companies that can't defend themselves. Quit making money for the multi-tentacled, out-of-reach music lables you claim to represent.
Boycott all major labels! Listen to
internet radio and
MP3.com. Spend your money at
record stores that carry primarily indy labels.
CEO of the RIAA, Hilary B. Rosen is the Anti-Hendrix. Below is a list of her evil minions that serve on the RIAA board. They come from the major labels of the world. They are evil. Do not buy from them:
Roger Ames, Warner Music Group
Michele Anthony, Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Val Azzoli, The Atlantic Group
Jay Boberg, MCA Records
Bob Cavallo, Buena Vista Music Group
Ray Cooper, Virgin Records America Inc.
Ronnie Dashev, Maverick Recording Company
Tracey Edmonds, Edmonds Record Group
David Glew, Epic Records Group
Dick Griffey, Solar Records/J.Hines Co.
Zach Horowitz, Universal Music Group
Don Ienner, Columbia Records Group
Robert Jamieson, RCA Records Label U.S.
David Johnson, Warner Music Group
Lawrence Kenswil, Universal Music Group
Mel Lewinter, Universal Music Group
Alain Levy, EMI, Recorded Music N.A.
Roy Lott, EMI, Recorded Music N.A.
Antonio Reid, Arista Records Inc.
Sylvia Rhone, Elektra Entertainment Group
Guillermo Santiso, Fonovisa Inc.
Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, BMG Entertainment
Tom Silverman, Tommy Boy Music
Andy Slater, Capitol Records
Thomas Stein, BMG Entertainment
Tom Tyrrell, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.
and by the way, anyone who listens to Metallica is lame
