Hide You?re The Radios The Riaa Is Coming!

[Phillyman]

This is absolute bullshit!

The RIAA, so-called copyright-infringement watchdog for the thieves err music industry could be at it again. Now, following its recent success in the jury civil trial Capitol Records, et al v. Jammie Thomas, which resulted in a jury verdict of $222,000 in damages, you might want to know who the RIAA have on their list as the next target? How about your local retail store?

The new possible avenue of legal action for the RIAA could be in the pursuit of businesses that play music in stores. The Performing Rights Society (PRS), Britain?s version of the RIAA, could be showing the RIAA a new way to line its pockets. The PRS is currently suing the Kwik Fit Group, a car repair shop in Edinburgh, for ?200,000. The case is based around the complaint that Kwik Fit employees brought in personal radios which they played while working on cars, the radios could be heard by colleagues and customers *Gasp!*. The PRS says this amounts to a public ?performance? and should have entailed royalties.

So who?s the next person in the RIAA sites? Your local Gym, or the retail store down the street? Oh wait better yet, the young kid with the loud stereo in his car! (Now that you could call public ?performance? since it?s so loud it?s almost like you?re AT the concert 5 cars behind the kid playing the music ? LOL)

I can?t wait for the day some artist takes legal action against the RIAA for not turning over royalties the RIAA has collected with the persecution of so called file sharers.

http://www.olgn.net/archives/hide-your-the...-riaa-is-coming

[meppi]

That's indeed pure bullshit.

Money, money, money, that's always what it's about.

The greedy bastards never have enough. First hiding behind the MP3 downloads and everything related with stories of how much it harms the music industry, but when you look at cases like this it shows a bit too clearly that it's got very little to do with their concern for the artists, and instead everything to do with lining their own pockets.

Something entirely unrelated, but a point which annoys me a great deal.

DVDs... I got a pretty big DVD collection 5-600 or so which gets bigger every week and especially after discovering Asian movies this summer.

Something that gets under my skin is how some production companies put unskippable minute long spots before the startup menu of a DVD, warning how harmful DVD copies are and how we all are in the same league as rapists and murderers if we copy a DVD.

Well now, I bought every single DVD I own (besides the original tv releases of the horror movies Ju-on The Curse 1 and 2 (not Ju-on the grudge) which never came out on DVD or tape outside of japan, and if they will, I'll buy them instantly)

So why do I have to sit through this crap every fracking time I want to watch a movie, when in fact someone who rents DVDs and copies them has the option to remove all that crap and make himself a copy of a DVD as how it should be sold in the stores.

It just doesn't make any sense...