Reply With QuoteThe RIAA should just start a comedy troop at this point.
For new music, mostly indie rock, some techno. Occasionally some ambient or experimental stuff of the type Warren Ellis posts on his blog. My taste in older music is pretty eclectic. Just about the only major-label stuff I buy is older catalog stuff, and I buy it by the MP3 or used CD, so the RIAA gets as paltry a few cents of my money as possible.Originally Posted by Jim Schnobrich
No, I'll have to check it out. What I've been doing a lot lately is going to Indie Rock Cafe, listening to one of the huge free streaming playlists they put up (most songs within the playlists are downloadable for free as well), then I make a list of all the songs on the playlist I like and gradually buy them all from Amazon's MP3 store.
But, a steady diet of indie rock can get boring after a while.
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The RIAA should just start a comedy troop at this point.
I've taken to using 8tracks a lot, which is like a legal version of the old Muxtape "upload a personalized playlist" model. It's pretty neat. The aforementioned Ellis actually has a profile on there. I also follow this guy, for my garage/punk/chanson needs.
And yeah, I got a profile, but so far just one dumb holiday-themed mix...
My reaction, "Wait Limewire still exists?"...
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Not since 2010. Which is still surprisingly late, but yeah.
Limewire is shut down, but the company still exists and has been in near constant litigation since its virtual doors were closed.
The absurdity of this is that with damages on this scale, the RIAA is basically saying that if not for Limewire, they would have seized control of the world economy and enslaved us all.
72 trillion? If you're going to be that outrageous, just go all out and put in the infinity symbol. "This company has hurt us so bad, that we want all the money that does and will ever exist."
I am extremely glad that Limewire got shut down. I only used it for a short time when I realized that I was on board with people that were sharing freaking child pornography. There actually was a case of an US college student who did that and got caught. Said he accidentally downloaded them together with some other porn. Yeah...
As for the RIAA, the whole model of "every single download is a lost sale" shows how ludicrous it is right there. They wish.
Incidentally, turns out the story was a year old.
Judge bumped down the number to under 2 billion and RIAA settled for under 200 million.
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