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...Let’s start with the facts. Nearly four years into launching our deterrence campaign from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), there likely are few college students out there who don’t know that downloading from unauthorized peer-to-peer (P2P) systems is illegal. Moreover, these days there are also innovative legal online music services like Ruckus, which offers free and legal music to any college student in the country...
...royalties to performers as well. The major players (from large commercial radio stations to educational stations) have been wrangling in Washington to determine how much stations need to pay and how much of their programming they need to report.Enter SoundExchange, an offshoot of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) that acts as a royalty collecting agency for performers. Unlike BMI and ASCAP, SoundExchange seems determined to be anything but friendly to the stations it interacts with, particularly the college radio broadcasters who are attempting to negotiate a different rate for educational stations (full disclosure: WHRB...
When the first draft of the paper was released in 2004 before it underwent academic review, said Strumpf, “the RIAA reacted a couple times, and they were not very happy...
...RIAA blasted the study in a 2004 press release, calling the results “inconsistent with virtually every other study done by academics and research analysts...
Oberholzer-Gee could not be reached for comment. A spokesperson for the RIAA declined to comment on the record...