Re: RIAA and music swappers

From: Eric Abdullateef (EAbdulla@dbedt.hawaii.gov)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 22:46:59 CEST

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    This is a good story angle on the one hand. But what it overlooks is the
    ubiquitous and pervasive influence of a largely Western-oriented media
    regime (globalization), personified by the RIAA among other media moguls,
    that is perhaps partly culpable for the cultural backlash that has
    dramatically manifested itself in the first major terroristic consequence
    of perhaps others to come. Conversely it can be argued that P2p file
    swapping, and the www in general, have probably delayed earlier
    vitriolicism and anti-American incidences and nurtured collaboration and
    more diverse cultural expressions, AJ being one creative off-spring among
    them.

    Eric Abdullateef

                                                                                            
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    I read something about this last week on this list and I thought that I
    would share this link.

    http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2818346,00.html 

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    I hate to say it but this is so f**king typical of the RIAA.

    I have a friend who is a behind-the-scenes producer who has produced and
written stuff for very very big names (we're talking Sony and Universal
Music).   He thinks the RIAA are money hungry b**tards that are willing to
bite hard on the listeners as well as the people who make the tunes or sing
the tunes.  His biggest complaint though stems from them making this big
argument on how record sales are suffering when things still go platinum,
still hit gold, still get awards but for some reason there is this lack of
money.  He has also told me various times that labels rush album TOO MUCH
and then they end up being very very underproduced and scattered which he
even admits doesn't qualify for people's hard earned cash...  As well as
the
marketing to the PR to the way CD Singles are made.

    Oh and the Soundscan, don't even get him started.

    RIAA are going to be the death of music manufacturing.  They aren't helping
anybody out anymore, too busy making sure they are getting paid.

    JJB/opSN

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