RIAA hellspawns

[Pain]

boycot cd's all together.
they want us to stop gettin music? ok well stop. see how they like it.

 

[Scorcher2k]

I would love to see a boycot. The music industry would go berserk on the riaa. The riaa isn't even sanctioned by the music industry and if something like that was to happen there would be hell to pay.

 

[Sonic the Vampire]

It would be nice to see, but who could even attempt pulling that off? People don't seem to care. This 12 year old would make a nice poster child for a boycot but we'd need a whole team of people out there starting rallies.

 

[imported_Mystix]

I guess nothing can be done about it, unless people finally open their eyes and realize how the RIAA are a bunch of low-life "sue 12 year old" *****es

 

[The Cheese]

Anyone know what the average amount that an artist makes off of each CD?

 

[Hitokiri]

They party all day, travel across the country and sometimes across the world, they get paid massive amounts of money for doing what they LOVE.

Like I care if they get one less platinum bentley every year?

 

[majin goketa]

And alot of them get alot of money for relativley little work.
I've never actually downloaded an mp3 that was illegal or used Kazaa, but I think people doing it isn't going to topple the music industry or have any bad effect on anyone.

 

[Pain]

if this **** keeps going on i will personaly burn cd's and distribute them for free outside record stores.
even though this will hardly hurt the industry, it will be a big **** YOU to them.

 

[Tassadar]

As if the RIAA will stop piracy all together, thats almost like trying to stop France(joke), or accomplishing world peace. It WONT happen, they would literaly have to destroy the ENTIRE internet to stop piracy. Then again, another way would be to have your ISP report any law-breaking activities, but that would be a violation of my constitutional rights, I dont want my ISP spying on me.
Anyway, point is, RIAA cannot stop piracy, it dosn't matter what they do, we will ALWAYS find a way around it.

 

[Sonic the Vampire]

if this **** keeps going on i will personaly burn cd's and distribute them for free outside record stores.
even though this will hardly hurt the industry, it will be a big **** YOU to them.

Hehe. Burn a ton of free CDs and put them on the shelves in stores and stuff. Sounds good to me! If you got caught you might have a problem though... still, I'm just really ****ing offended that they would do this to such a harmless target. They have crossed a line, and I have had it.

 

[imported_Mystix]

Yeah, everyone is pissed. Then again, what the **** can we do about it? Pretty much nothing :\

 

[SaiyanPrideXIX]

Well...I have an associate's in media for what it's worth...if you guys saw how the music industry works behind the scenes like I have, you'd understand why the musicians are pissed.

The way the infrastructure of the industry is made, the companies are the sole benefactors before everyone else, even the musicians responsible.

The bigger a musician gets, the more money they get from the Record Company to make the album. THis is called an advance--basically, the Company takes a gamble and says, say, "Okay metallica. Here's 3 million dollars. Go make an album with it."

Metallica, for every CD sold, gets five cents. Yes, five measely ****ing cents (this is a fact, my teacher worked for them).

Now here's the kick in the balls. Whatever huge amount of money the record company gave to the band as an advance has to be earned in the amount generated by those nickels BEFORE the band ever sees a paycheck.

So if Metallica's album, with a 3 million dollar advance, bombs out and only sold 1 million bucks worth of copies (remember, at a nickel per copy...the money doesn't even go to the band, it goes straight to the company). Now, it's not like Metallica OWES them the money and has the chance to pay it back. The record company just gives them less next time, or cuts them completely from the label, as we see happen day in and day out with dozens of artists.

Now...imagine if you lost your record deal because 2 million dollars worth of bratty 13 year old kids stole your song without buying the CD?

The only solution is that the musical system of money and management needs to be re-thought. Hopefully they will resort to that soon--this whole sue/countersue thing is just going nowhere.

If I were them I would sue Kazaa a new *******, personally.

 

[Lilum]

Saiyan's correct.
Funny thing is though, it's the musician's own fault in a way, for letting themselves do this.

Want to get signed to a major label? Expect less money for a CD sold, and less artistic freedom, as well as a loss in integrity in many cases. You don't have to sign with the RIAA. There are numerous labels who are not part of that association. The RIAA is an extra unneeded facet of the music industry. Signing with a label that is part of them is a bad idea.

If you are in a metal band, say Sonic Deathjoy Killmonkeys, and you join a label that in part of the RIAA, what are you doing? You are paying money for them to do market research (Would people buy the record more if they changed the name of the band, for instance. Of course, you don't have to let them change the name. But they will do the research anyways, and you are paying for it regardless).

The RIAA :

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Its mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality. Its members are the record companies that comprise the most vibrant national music industry in the world. RIAA members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States.

They are a group paid extra, an organization supported by the record labels that lobbies in the government for them, that does marketing research, phones various people to ask their opinion on the material, does focus groups, test audiences, keeps in private communication with other companies (music stores), has large private functions with members of the business organization, and other unneeded things for the most part. It is a business based upon the music an artist makes. A parasitic one that is not necessary, and while it is helpful, for the most part it is unnecessary and unprofitable to the artist himself. Of course, not to the record companies though.

If you want to really do something against the RIAA, just don't buy their music. Don't listen to their radio stations. There are sites that can be found if you look that will tell you if an artist supports the RIAA.

When you are in a store and you see a display for a new Slipknot album, don't buy the album there. Go to a smaller store, with no display, no extra fanfare about it, and buy the album. Purchasing albums from stores with less promotion of the record, as well as less extra costs being spent by that store, will show later on in their market data that the cardboard cutout of slipknot wasn't really useful, and was a waste of money.

The average music buyer has allowed the RIAA to be what they are today, and it is their fault if they suffer from such. They helped create a bloated industry, and let the flies and maggots feed on the refuse that it is. So go ahead and shell out 15$ for a metallica album, spend 40$ on concert tickets, 25$ on a t-shirt. Nevermind that a great band is probably on an independant label with a 10$ album, a 15$ t-shirt, and a 20$ concert ticket at most.

Buy from the group themselves, don't go through middlemen, don't support the RIAA that way, since you want to listen to mudvayne regardless of their choice to sign to an RIAA label.

 

[GoldSaiyan]

I wonder what they are gonna do next.
Barge into homes and ask to see if they have 'illegal' stuff.
And it's amazing how companies like them and 'Spyware' is allowed to break the internet privacy law, signed by Clinton.

If Communism or Socialism is ever going to come, I will laugh at the faces of the Capitalists.

 

[Pain]

http://www.boycott-riaa.com/

 

[Cold Steel]

Meh, that could have been my kid sister. If they try to pull shuch creppeh in my house i'll personally let them eat their own ****s, and stuff their hands in a place where the light never shines. Geez, what's next, pr0n forbidden under 18 yrs..wait a min...ehm nvm.

 

[GoldSaiyan]

1 - If some ass tries to get in my house and tries to get on my comp and inspect it, he gets this:
1: A nice insult about him and how fascism and capitalism matches with his ugly face.
2: A nice kickboxing high kick to his head while he rolls off from my stairs.

And hell, if I go to jail, I will go to jail with a smile.
Nothing is allowed anymore in Holland.

 

[Lynxy]

Just cool it down and Holland's ok, don't get too negative. However I agree with the coming-into-my-house thing. If I see some idiot walking upstairs to check my pc or anything, he'll fall downstairs 10 times faster than he came upstairs.

 

[GoldSaiyan]

No, I'm hot. Weeeee...
Holland is not okay to me, it's just not what it is anymore. Too many changes that just ruined alot of Dutch people's lives.

If I had a choice of moving to a other country which my house could move into with no problem, I've would done that months ago.

Deze nep Democratie en Anti Sociale regering hangt mijn strot uit.

Privacy is constantly being ignored by the Government, no matter what the case is.
This happens alot in America.

 

[Pain]

knock him down with a big bang attack being shot after him.
then you paint a big M on your forehead and claim your the strongest warrior alive!!!
and then listen to the music u just saved.
sounds good. lol