c'mon, when is the last time you boycotted something?
there is a movement to boycott the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). I'm down with that. the RIAA has been getting away with some outrageous behavior because of their armies of lawyers paid by us, the consumers. the RIAA's latest tactic has been to send letters to several universities demanding, erm, *requesting* the names of students associated to an IP address suspected of file sharing. there is no comment from the RIAA as to what would happen to universities that decline to turn over their students to the RIAA lawyers.
so check out the RIAA radar, support your favorite independent musicians, go see them live, and don't give any money to the RIAA during the month of March or longer...
so check out the RIAA radar, support your favorite independent musicians, go see them live, and don't give any money to the RIAA during the month of March or longer...
clipped from gizmodo.com
the month of March Boycott the RIAA month. We want to get the word out to as many people as humanly possible that we can all send a message by refusing to buy any album put out by an RIAA label.
If you are unsure whether or not an album is put out by an RIAA label, the handy RIAA Radar will clear everything up for you. They have both a search engine and a great bookmarklet, so be sure to get yourself hooked up.
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Fine, I'll add RIAA to my list.
What's crazy is that the last time they did this, the money they were suing for was of an amount to destroy an 18-year old's life, not scare him away from downloading music. I mean, suing a kid for a few thousand bucks might sober him up, but one of the lawsuits was for several hundred thousand dollars.
I will pass on to Sarah who is a big music consumer.
Boycott?
-- I live in Berkeley.
Our first pair of tuxie kittens were Girlcat and Boycat -- as in, Boycat Safeway for selling non-union table grapes.
When I heard this story on the news yesterday, well.... nice try, RIAA, but you've just made a terrific argument for your own obsolescence.
Artists *deserve* to be paid for their work, but if the recording industry doesn't try to get itself in gear, it will find that artists and listeners alike have left it behind.