Word: riaa
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...afford to challenge the ridiculous lawsuits). File-sharing is not the artist's enemy. Eminem had the most-downloaded album last year. It was also the highest-selling album of the year. Overpriced CDs and a cruel, pointless campaign to alienate fans are the artists' enemy. The RIAA must embrace file-sharing or die (I vote die). Brian Dollerhide Wasilla, Alaska...
...RIAA has become so focused on punishing a select few to make their point—they filed 261 lawsuits against individual file sharers across the country this Monday—that it misses the point entirely. The age of downloading is upon us and litigation will not stem its arrival. The music industry will be better served by adapting than by fighting the tide...
...RIAA subpoenas that will force schools to disclose student information belie a more fundamental flaw in the association’s method for eliminating file sharing. It is profoundly unfair to target and punish a small subset of the offending population, hoping to make examples of them and scare others away from file sharing. And even if this were justifiable, it is not an effective deterrent. When the initial announcement of the lawsuits against file sharers was made in June, user traffic on Kazaa, one of the most popular platforms for sharing music files, was lower for 10 hours...
...RIAA claims to be protecting the artists, but these lawsuits stifle both artists and listeners. DJs who create their own mixes from popular songs—a form of expression also being affected by the music industry’s attack on sharing—are prevented from producing unique pieces that are often appreciated by listeners...
Reducing and capping CD prices—which the Universal Music Group decided to do last week, cutting wholesale prices by up to 30 percent—would be a more effective way to win back the support and cash of music lovers. The RIAA could also take a hint from Apple’s hugely successful iMusic, which sells individual song files over the Internet directly to consumers, as many other legal downloading programs don’t currently offer a selection of music as vast as systems like Kazaa. There is a huge potential for growth in this...