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Why won't the RIAA give any of this cash to the artists? Supposedly they are suing people over downloading music recorded by OTHER FUCKING PEOPLE.
If I were an artists, I would sue the fuck out of the RIAA for not sharing proceeds with me, but then, with the RIAA's creative accounting practices (courtesy of the imaginary accounting departments at the major labels) I would most likely see a check for about 32 cents.
Details from P2Pnet.com here:
Note that last sentence:
Actually, when the RIAA THREATENS the very consumers it is supposed to be selling music to, it causes people to CREATE innovative content broadband distribution (though not legal).
So I wonder...operating a flawed business model as noted above.....how long before the RIAA goes bankrupt?
Fucking dumbasses.
If I were an artists, I would sue the fuck out of the RIAA for not sharing proceeds with me, but then, with the RIAA's creative accounting practices (courtesy of the imaginary accounting departments at the major labels) I would most likely see a check for about 32 cents.
RIAA Spent $64 Million On Threats Netting Just $1.4 Million
And despite this money pit, RIAA execs keep getting raises
01:53PM Wednesday Jul 14 2010
P2PNet has managed to grab hold of the RIAA's tax documents for the last few years, and they make for some very entertaining reading. According to the RIAA’s disclosure form for just 2008, the outfit paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 to recover $391,000 from P2P music traders. Between 2006 and 2008, the RIAA paid (mostly to lawyers) about $64 million to hunt down and threaten file sharers -- a process which only netted around $1.4 million (which didn't go to artists, of course).
All the while, the RIAA's six figure (or more) executives were busily giving themselves significant raises. For example, RIAA boss Mitch Bainwol pulled in more than $2 million in compensation in 2008, a cool half a million more than the RIAA's "let's vilify potential customer" campaign netted that entire year. RIAA president Cary Sherman pulled down a cool $984,615 in 2007, rising to $1,331,747 in 2008.
Granted, this isn't factoring the massive negative energy public relations pulsar the RIAA creates by engaging in actions that make the entire planet loathe the major recording labels (like suing grandmas, or convincing ISPs to threaten service termination for downloading a song). Imagine though, for a moment, what kind of innovative content broadband distribution piracy alternatives these funds could have helped create?
And despite this money pit, RIAA execs keep getting raises
01:53PM Wednesday Jul 14 2010
P2PNet has managed to grab hold of the RIAA's tax documents for the last few years, and they make for some very entertaining reading. According to the RIAA’s disclosure form for just 2008, the outfit paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 to recover $391,000 from P2P music traders. Between 2006 and 2008, the RIAA paid (mostly to lawyers) about $64 million to hunt down and threaten file sharers -- a process which only netted around $1.4 million (which didn't go to artists, of course).
All the while, the RIAA's six figure (or more) executives were busily giving themselves significant raises. For example, RIAA boss Mitch Bainwol pulled in more than $2 million in compensation in 2008, a cool half a million more than the RIAA's "let's vilify potential customer" campaign netted that entire year. RIAA president Cary Sherman pulled down a cool $984,615 in 2007, rising to $1,331,747 in 2008.
Granted, this isn't factoring the massive negative energy public relations pulsar the RIAA creates by engaging in actions that make the entire planet loathe the major recording labels (like suing grandmas, or convincing ISPs to threaten service termination for downloading a song). Imagine though, for a moment, what kind of innovative content broadband distribution piracy alternatives these funds could have helped create?
Note that last sentence:
Imagine though, for a moment, what kind of innovative content broadband distribution piracy alternatives these funds could have helped create?
So I wonder...operating a flawed business model as noted above.....how long before the RIAA goes bankrupt?
Fucking dumbasses.
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