Wait...seriously? More RIAA craziness.

[CCCXXV]

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/recording-indus.html

The RIAA is trying to sue AM and FM radio for being a form of piracy. I personally think it's absolutely insane. They went through the same nonsense in the 1930s, but here we are again.

Compare with http://www.theonion.com/content/news...o_stations_for - pretty similar, no? And that's The Onion, a joke news source.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Ohgeeze.

[Turf1600]

WGAF. I don't listen to the radio. Just my ipod and burned CDs.

[Massive Lee]

In European countries, whenever a song is played on TV or radio, it goes on a list. Every time it plays, it goes on that list. Then the list is reviewed and the radio/TV station pays fees fore each of the song, and that money is used to pay royaltees.

[Sam Cogley]

Jezus tapdancing Christos.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Here in the US we just have copyright lawyers waiting around to file suits against anyone who uses said intellectual property.

[TwoJ's]

That is ridiculous. Like that article says, the radio broadcasts are a way of promoting their music.

However, they do have an argument that the satellite radio broadcasts could promote piracy. If you hear a song on a satellite radio station, you can rewind it to the beginning, hit record and save it on a hard disk. I can see how this could be considered piracy, but regardless the recording industry is fighting a losing battle. It sucks for them that peer to peer shit has killed their revenue, but going after radio broadcasts is pretty lame.

There is a rapper called 'Lil Wayne that even says, "If you paid for this CD you are stupid" or something to that effect on one of his albums.

[Vedubin01]

In European countries, whenever a song is played on TV or radio, it goes on a list. Every time it plays, it goes on that list. Then the list is reviewed and the radio/TV station pays fees fore each of the song, and that money is used to pay royaltees.

With out looking into it, that is how I thought it worked here?



The record industry is just really hurting because of the new media outlets.

[Kruzen]

Thats okay, last week they were trying to convince the judge that you don't need evidence to convict pirates.

[z31maniac]

The record industry is just really hurting because of the new media outlets.

No they are hurting because they continue to churn out crappy artists with crappy music.

I still go buy CD's of the bands I like to support them.

[Vedubin01]

Thats true, I would pay $100+ per seat to see a good band live. But todays bands are all studio. Smashing Pumpkins, great example of a studio band.

I was so disappointed to see them live I left.

[Erick]

^ True, although the two most recent bands I saw were stellar live. And one is fairly recent, and I never thought of their music as something that could possibly have so much crowd reaction. It was quite possibly one of the best crowd reactions I've seen in years.

[blunttech]

am i correct in assuming this will not harm rush limbaugh , mark levin or sean hannity in anyway?>?? thats really all i care about

[Dave]

no, you are not correct. rush will have to pay 94% of his profits to Chrissie Hynde of the The Pretenders for his appropriation of the "My City Was Gone" riff.

[joshh]

The artists should pay the radio stations to play their music.

This is just a case of "we aren't making enough millions of dollars".