RIAA President: The Case for the Innocent Infringer
The case for the innocent infringer — an interview with RIAA President Cary Sherman. From Viceland: DOWNLOADING SOME BULLSHIT: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE RIAA
A few years ago the RIAA switched tactics. Instead of high-profile prosecutions of people who pirated music, you decided to put the onus on the ISPs. How successful was that transition?
The time had come to shift over to a strategy that would be more effective. The lawsuits were obviously controversial in the media, but the reality was that most people had no idea that what they were doing was illegal at the time of those lawsuits. We did all sorts of surveys. We tried PR firms. We did everything to look at how to begin to change the culture of using illegal P2P. We realized that 1) none of the messages resonated, and 2) most people had no idea that what they were doing was illegal, let alone thought it was wrong. That completely flipped overnight when we started the lawsuits. It made an enormous impression and we were constantly generating dinner conversations about what you may or may not do with your computer. We think it would be very good if there were more such conversations about all the other things that can be done inappropriately with a computer. So we think it had a tremendous impact by very clearly searing in the minds of the public that maybe getting all of this stuff for free isn’t legal after all.
Read the rest at Vice Magazine: DOWNLOADING SOME BULLSHIT - An Interview With the President of the RIAA - Vice Magazine
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Another argument:
Bastiaan, you’re kidding me…? on July 26th, 2010 at 8:54 am
The RIAA’s been stealing from artists since the dawn of copyright. Actually, it began with publishing companies stealing from authors. They’re still doing that. Today’s artists/movie producers are yesterday’s authors. Today’s RIAA are yesterday’s publishing companies (yes, still today!). This is what Karl Marx referred to as the synthesis called the MODE OF PRODUCTION between the RELATIONS OF PRODUCTION and the FORCES OF PRODUCTION. Fuck these capitalists.
Also, it is interesting to note that when the printing press came out, it was considered Satanic/black magic/heresy. Same thing as what that Bastiaan, you’re kidding me…? guy said
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Truths do not contradict truths.
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The RIAA will die if they insist file sharing is “infringement.” As mentioned above, the RIAA will always resist new technology.
I wonder what would happen if we could clone actual property or if we could psychologically communicate intangible property…
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Joel, you’ve given a lot of arguments for downloading music, but what you’re being sued for is uploading (i.e. putting it in your shared folder).
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To: Remember…
Home taping is legal. File sharing is illegal. Simple as that. I am a blind legalist.
If file sharing hurts sales/kills music, then WiFi kills DSL. Home sewing kills fashion. Home sleeping kills hotels. Water fountains kill the water industry.
I am an Economics Student. Those stupid music executives need to adapt to the market and CHANGE. A rule of economics and nature is “Evole or Die”
They are just greedy assholes who want to keep the current system of £10 - 15 per cd and don’t want to change to a model that may bring in less profit. I hope they all go bankcrupt. I can live without new music untill new companies open up with business models to suit the current market. — StaticID
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