make money fast, the RIAA way

[waider]

1. make out that filesharing is killing your business. demand legislation.
2. acknowledge (maybe) that filesharing per se is ok, but sharing copyrighted material is killing your business. demand legislation forcing filesharing networks to be liable for copyright.
3. show off some audio fingerprinting software to the lawmakers
4. if you haven't already done so, buy the fingerprinting company
5. when your new legislation kicks in, charge a massive license fee to anyone who wants to use the fingerprinting, and sue anyone who doesn't into oblivion with your new legislation

I'm tellin' ya, not buying music from the RIAA is the only way forward.

Comments

[wisn.livejournal.com]

6. Collect a use fee on blank media, claiming that although this is intended to compensate for lost revenue, payers of the fee are not licensed to copy anything anyway.

Which reminds me: Has there ever been an audit of those fees? It'd be interesting to see if, say, Low-Ranking Major Label Band With Only One Recording Before Being Dropped ever got a royalty statement with line-items for their share of CD-R/DAT/DVD-R/etc. use fees. I'd bet Madonna and Michael Jackson do.

I'm plenty annoyed that the CD-R blanks I used to get for $0.07 each in bulk now cost a minimum of $0.25 for no apparent reason.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Nifty tool.

Although the last time I checked NorthSide on it, it told me the label was a member, now it says it isn't.

I hope the latter is correct.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

The RIAA has been somewhat notoriously listing nonmembers as members. I recall a story of one label owner's repeated attempts to get their false listing removed, but trying to google for it calls up too much noise.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Why am I not surprised? Not like they had much credibility anyway, but still.

[waider.livejournal.com]

The RIAA radar guy updates his list based on input from users of the system, rather than relying on the RIAA's own list which, as wisn notes, is unreliable.