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Originally Posted by Kanon
What the RIAA does is nothing more than thuggery level racketeering, and it's illegal.
Hopefully more people stand up to them.
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I agree stand up to the bastards but also never under estimate the power of greedy corp stupidity..... It appears that even if you are just an independent artist you are screwed as you are not allowed to record and package your own music. According to this link the RIAA raided a indie store with police in bullet proof vests and swat teams.
RIAA regional officer Kenneth Rivera, who worked as an undercover agent on the Kim?s case, identified the store?s mix tapes and CDs as piratical, testifying in an affidavit that they ?listed unfamiliar company names, do not display the name of the owner of the copyright, have packaging inferior in quality when compared with legitimate discs,? and because ?many are recorded on CD-R media. Legitimate recordings released by RIAA member companies do not release their recording on CD-R format.?
can read more about this here:
http://www.econoculture.com/m/index....=16&Itemi d=1
