The RIAA wants your soul
You’ve probably already seen this, but the RIAA (Recording Industry Ass of America) is claiming that making backups is not fair use. It seems that suing children and dead people is not enough anymore. Motivated by what can only be greed, they seem to keep looking for ways to gain further control over consumers and to squeeze every penny they can out of them in any possible way. Even if they have to use the most absurd tactics to do this.
I’m not against copyright laws and people or companies making money off of their hard work, property or content, but this is just insane. How far are they willing to go? If there was a way by which they could use technology to make sure only you could be able to hear the music on a CD you bought, and make it possible to be able to sue you when someone else (accidentally) listens along, I think they’d do it without thinking twice about it.
I’m currently working on a personal project which I’ll call “Project Q” for now. When I see things as described above happening, things like this, and things like this too, it just makes me want to work much faster to get Project Q ready. There are things that are badly needed but surprisingly absent on the Internet right now.
Oh, and I left out the period somewhere at the beginning of this post on purpose. You can figure it out.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:22 am
[...] While the RIAA is still busy suing children and dead people, music companies are now looking more and more at distributing their music without the use of DRM. It looks like people are finally becoming wiser: Almost two-thirds of music industry executives think removing digital locks from downloadable music would make more people buy the tracks, finds a survey. [...]
March 5th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
[...] Le Monde des m?dias, qui fait ?tat d?une nouvelle ?tude mise ? jour par NPD, d?voile quelques statistiques int?ressantes : le nombre de foyers am?ricains connect?s ? un service d??change de fichiers peer-to-peer (P2P), apr?s avoir atteint un record de 14,5 millions en avril 2003, est tomb? ? 12,7 millions en mai, puis 10,4 millions en juin, selon les chiffres de la soci?t? d??tudes NPD Group ? partir d?un ?chantillon de 40.000 sond?s. Par extrapolation, NPD estime que le nombre de fichiers musicaux acquis, ce qui inclut les chansons ?chang?es ill?galement aussi bien que celles achet?es sur un site web musical et celles copi?es depuis un disque compact, est pass? de 852 millions en avril ? 655 millions en juin. Selon Russ Crupnick, vice-pr?sident de NPD Group : ? M?me si nous ne pouvons pas dire cat?goriquement que les efforts juridiques de la RIAA sont la seule cause de la diminution de l?acquisition de fichiers, il semble que ce soit plus qu?une simple baisse saisonni?re ?. [...]