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So Radio is Piracy Now.

SagrothSagroth Registered User regular
edited June 2008 in Social Entropy++
I'm not joking.


I am absolutely baffled by this. What do they think they're going to accomplish here exactly?

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I bet iTunes is happy

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  • ZephyrZephyr Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    lol riaa

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  • WallhitterWallhitter Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    The recording industry is akin to an old man in a horse and carriage going on the highway and complaining that the cars scare his horses and trying to petition to city council to ban them from the roads.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    unions are a good thing though you guys

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    unions are a good thing though you guys
    What?

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Is the RIAA manned solely by everyone's crazy, racist grandpa?

    "The radio! Pshaw! The radio is the tool of the Irish and Gypsies! Makin' kids' heads soft! Why listen to the radio when you've got a perfectly serviceable Morse telegrapher to widdle the hours away!"

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  • SagrothSagroth Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Wallhitter wrote: »
    The recording industry is akin to an old man in a horse and carriage going on the highway and complaining that the cars scare his horses and trying to petition to city council to ban them from the roads.

    Rabble Rabble Rabble!


    Harrumph!

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  • BigDesBigDes Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Whistling a tune will be next.

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    unions are a good thing though you guys
    You realize the RIAA is not a union, right? You realize that it's an industry group, run by corporate record labels, and not musical artists, right?

    Because it sounds like you're just being retarded.

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    The RIAA acts more like a fuckin' trust.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    or sarcastic

    but yeah you know

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Aneurhythmia wrote: »
    The RIAA acts more like a fuckin' trust.

    they're effectively a cartel with a massive lobby group

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'm just going to stop listening to music. Will that satisfy them?

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  • WallhitterWallhitter Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    You know, with every article I read about them, I wonder...

    "Why don't we just kill these fuckin' people?"

    In all seriousness, they...just don't belong in this time period.

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  • BigDesBigDes Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Mysst wrote: »
    I'm just going to stop listening to music. Will that satisfy them?

    Not listening to music is also a form of pirating music.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Mysst wrote: »
    I'm just going to stop listening to music. Will that satisfy them?

    so long as you give them money

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  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    BigDes wrote: »
    Mysst wrote: »
    I'm just going to stop listening to music. Will that satisfy them?

    Not listening to music is also a form of pirating music.

    are you thinking about music? that counts too

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    i've just given up on "real" music and listen to video game song remixes from VGMix or OCRemix nowadays. maybe some independent stuff i'll randomly find via MySpace or something similar.


    fuck the RIAA, they're not the be all end all of music.

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  • TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    It's a good thing that the only thing I do that concerns music is buy a CD, take it into the store's parking lot, and burn it. Over and over again. Contributions to global warming aside, I'm pretty sure that the RIAA finds that acceptable.

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Big Red Tie wrote: »
    BigDes wrote: »
    Mysst wrote: »
    I'm just going to stop listening to music. Will that satisfy them?

    Not listening to music is also a form of pirating music.

    are you thinking about music? that counts too
    I'll drop them $10 every time I get Bad Medicine stuck in my head.

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  • Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    oh god why did I click the link about the dvd-sniffing dog that died
    noooooo
    poor Manny

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Terrendos wrote: »
    It's a good thing that the only thing I do that concerns music is buy a CD, take it into the store's parking lot, and burn it. Over and over again. Contributions to global warming aside, I'm pretty sure that the RIAA finds that acceptable.

    you're burning a CD, which is also piracy.


    you now owe the RIAA USD$500. they accept most major credit cards.

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  • TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    fightinfilipino wrote: »
    Terrendos wrote: »
    It's a good thing that the only thing I do that concerns music is buy a CD, take it into the store's parking lot, and burn it. Over and over again. Contributions to global warming aside, I'm pretty sure that the RIAA finds that acceptable.

    you're burning a CD, which is also piracy.


    you now owe the RIAA USD$500. they accept most major credit cards.

    The funny thing is, when I was thinking about saying that I was going to put "set fire to it" so as to avoid the obvious pun. And yet somehow my subconscious must love setting people up.

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Terrendos wrote: »
    fightinfilipino wrote: »
    Terrendos wrote: »
    It's a good thing that the only thing I do that concerns music is buy a CD, take it into the store's parking lot, and burn it. Over and over again. Contributions to global warming aside, I'm pretty sure that the RIAA finds that acceptable.

    you're burning a CD, which is also piracy.


    you now owe the RIAA USD$500. they accept most major credit cards.

    The funny thing is, when I was thinking about saying that I was going to put "set fire to it" so as to avoid the obvious pun. And yet somehow my subconscious must love setting people up.

    hi5 for the alley oop ;-)

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  • noluitnoluit Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    but i guess the riaa just really likes money

    money is pretty sweet

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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I don't mind that there's a company out there cracking down on websites and people who spread around shit tons of bandwidth in music, I can understand the reasoning behind that.

    But attacking radio like this is basically punishing everyone to make up for something that not everyone is doing. And that's never okay.

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  • nevilleneville The Worst Gay (Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    RIAA... proving daily that rich idiots will do anything to get richer.
    Seriously fuck you guys.

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  • MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Talk about biting the hand that feeds you... This is pure silliness. No sane or sober person would come up with this.

    Perhaps a drug bust is in order.

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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    The stuff some of these companies are doing, not just music labels, but companies that get paid through DVDs as well (Especially the anime industry) seem to be giving a harder and harder time to people who just want to get their stuff legally.

    It's so fucking stupid, and all it's doing is making it more and more rewarding just to download their shit and fuck over the license holders and distributors out of even more money.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2008
    Man what the fuck
    What the fuck
    As a dude who did some DJ stuff fuck this noise with a rusty rake

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Jack Thompson RIAA Uwe Boll Hot Toddy

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    the recording industry is the saddest little big thing

    when will they stop crying and fucking die

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  • KrunkMcGrunkKrunkMcGrunk Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Dude from RIAA wrote:
    "It's a form of piracy, if you will, but not in the classic sense as we think of it," said Martin Machowsky, a musicFirst spokesman. "Today we gifted them a can of herring, about their argument that they provide promotional value. We think that's a red herring. Nobody listens to the radio for the commercials."

    Are they fucking serious? Did you completely miss the point that NAB was making? The fact is that playing singles on the radio is excellent advertising for what Record Companies are selling.

    Fuck the record industry.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Penguin Incarnate wrote: »
    Jack Thompson RIAA Uwe Boll Hot Toddy

    Hot Toddy?

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  • 2 Marcus 2 Ravens2 Marcus 2 Ravens CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'm really all for the music industry changing to fit modern distribution, but the transistion is going to be rough. And attacking the radio? A few months back I was offered my first radio interview and airtime and I was fucking blown away. Bands put their shit on the internet all the time, but it's when it makes it to the radio that people actually take it seriously. Yeah, radio isn't perfect, but it's likely the least corrupt and bullshit way to get people to hear your music.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2008
    Really
    The way it works is, you hear a song, and you're like that song was fucking great
    So you go out and buy the album and it sucks

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  • SagrothSagroth Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    And keep in mind, unlike the crusade against online pirating, there's no excuse of "it's denying the artists money!" with this.

    Artists do get paid royalties by radio stations(via some crazy arcane system I can't decipher). This is just the labels going "Waaaah! I want some too!"

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  • BigDesBigDes Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    The hell is Hot Toddy?

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    It's the opposite of a cold toddy.

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Lol! wrote: »
    Really
    The way it works is, you hear a song, and you're like that song was fucking great
    So you go out and buy the album and it sucks

    actually it's now more like "hey that song is awesome i think i'll buy the single off iTunes for $ .99!"

    *listen to samples of rest of album*

    "wow, the rest blows. i'm just getting the one song then."

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