The recording industry goes before a jury for the first time in their efforts to curb piracy, specifically, while suing a thirty-year-old mother for more than $1 million for online file sharing. A sample of their argument from day 1:
Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG, told the jury that copying even music you paid for – as in, say, uploading it to your MP3 player or adding it to your iTunes playlist – qualifies as "stealing." "When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song," Pariser testified.
That ought to go over well.
the RIAA are a bunch of haters. best thing for musicians to do is take matters into their own hands, e.g., http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/10/01/radiohead/index.html
ReplyDeleteI did see that. Hop on that bandwagon, oh ye megachoir!
ReplyDeleteBut it is amusing to watch the dinosaurs so obviously flailing, doomed to failure. Youth culture, man. They're ahead of all of us.