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Zoly
join:2004-01-04
Houston, TX
3 edits | Affiliated with RIAA? No thanks!!!
Well if an artist is affiliated with RIAA - I' am not buying their music, period.
But there are so many artists who are affiliated with those crooks and are very unhappy about that... Will I buy their CD's? - It depends...
On the other hand, there are so many websites in the Russian Internet segment that still have most of the current music for free! And I am not stealing it even there.
All I get there is what I cannot buy in the USA.
AND yes, I did not pay for Kristian Leontiou's CD - I downloaded (RIAA EDIT: stole) his tracks on-line | |
A Realist
@rr.com
| It never ceases to amaze me the misinformation that spreads across the internet everytime the RIAA does anything.
When you have a claim against someone and they die you sue their estate. That's simply the way it is. Civil lawsuits never disappear just because the defendant died. Use some common sense. If a drunk driver kills your kid, but also kills himself in the process are you just out of luck? No you sue his estate for wrongful death. What if someone defrauds you of all your money but then dies the next day? Do his children get your money? No you sue the estate. And in suing the estate you take depositions of anyone who might have relevant knowledge, including the KIDS. There is absolutely nothing immoral or even inpolite about this. This is how lawsuits are conducted.
They are not going after the children and they are not even suing them. They are DEPOSING them. That just means they are going to ask them questions to get an idea as to how they would testify at trial, if they are even called. And the term, "children" is not age specific. A child can be 5 or 50 years old. If the children were underage they probably would be referred to as minors, and any legal reference to them would include the phrase, "by and through their guardian ad litem."
People sue the estates of dead defendants all the time. They turn around and depose their children the week after the parent's death. But when the RIAA asks for a continuation in the discovery process on the defendant's behalf, everyone goes nuts crying foul.
When a class action of former Enron employees sues Ken Lay's estate and deposes his widow are people going to complain? Of course not because they aren't the RIAA.
The RIAA don't need help making bad press. They are a truly dispicable and arguably unlawful organization. But guess what? If everyone bitches even when they do something completely innocuous, or even GOOD (see, compulsory licensing for online music that got boo hoo'd) then why wouldn't they play the bad guy? They're damned if they do, damned if they don't. Meanwhile people are writing their Congressman seeking action and their representatives are shaking their heads and ignoring them because their letters make it clear that they have absolutely no idea what the hell they are talking about. | |
An Artist
@207.230.x.x
| Welcome to the world of business, this is what happens when you take a profession that is about expression and slap a price tag on it. Suddenly without warning investors and business assholes who are about nothing more than lining their pockets with green, get involved. The RIAA is an organization set to regulate how their investors and stock holders get money from producing and distributing other peoples work. Most artists that I know just want to be heard and to play live. The RIAA is required to attack anyone it's shareholders view as a threat to the business.
"The Realist" made good points...from a cold blooded business standpoint, the fuckers involved with suing people are nothing more than pissed off millionaires worrying that their house payment may actually have to be worked for...or that their children MIGHT actually have to work for a living. The RIAA is just like any other corporation...corrupt. 90 percent of the artists out their didn't get into music to be rich, but once you get so much money shoved at you it's hard not to be a little influenced by it. The devil wearing Gucci is much more appealing than the god wearing rags.
Don't blame the artists...this one is entirely the RIAA. Any snake will slither faster when it knows it's about to die. | |
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