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By: Sunday Morning Reading: Charles Nesson in Mass High Tech « Andy on the Road

Sunday Morning Reading: Charles Nesson in Mass High Tech « Andy on the Road — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:30:17 +0000

[...] Artists are okay with this, or at least they do not put up so much of a fight as to deny this Faustian bargain, because of the other perks one gets as a major artist. Far more lucrative than the remaing royalties from sales, there are synchronization licenses with films, TV, commercials, and other deals, not to mention the somehow-still-lucrative world of live performance. One area an artist normally controls most or all of his or her royalties around, interestingly enough, is merchandise, so while buying the CD of an artist helps him or her marginally, buying the T-shirt actually helps rather substantially. So, with that in mind, how can we say that giving statutory damages to filesharing activity helps the artist create, when an artist would see pennies of that revenue were the song purchased or downloaded legally? It’s also worth nothing that, while to date the RIAA has collected thousands upon thousands of dollars from these filesharing lawsuits, not one artist is reporting any money paid out from this pool. [...]

By: Kriget mot fildelningen « PiratJanne

Kriget mot fildelningen « PiratJanne — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:10:50 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:20:49 +0000

The Ironies abound, I think the RIAA deserves to be sued by the artists, after all, this was supposedly all about THEM so THEY deserve COMPENSATION, so said the RIAA, that the ARTISTS are being hurt by piracy. Talk about lying through their teeth, this whole fiasco was just so THE RIAA could get the money. Sue away music artists sue away.

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Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:50:38 +0000

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By: Signs of Change | Austin Dwi Lawyer

Signs of Change | Austin Dwi Lawyer — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:17:09 +0000

[...] MPAA are suing everybody, who’s getting the money? It certainly is not the artists. In fact, the artists have threatened to sue the RIAA simply because while the RIAA has been taking a stance against piracy on the artists’ behalves, the [...]

By: Signs of Change | Austin Dwi Lawyer

Signs of Change | Austin Dwi Lawyer — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:17:09 +0000

By: Signs of Change « The Paradigm Shift

Signs of Change « The Paradigm Shift — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:11:36 +0000

[...] are suing everybody, who’s getting the money? It certainly is not the artists. In fact, the artists have threatened to sue the RIAA simply because while the RIAA has been taking a stance against piracy on the artists’ [...]

By: The RIAA vs The Artists they Represent | The Dead Hub

The RIAA vs The Artists they Represent | The Dead Hub — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:13:46 +0000

[...] money from the lawsuits. None of the artists that are represented by the labels that sued, and collected on the upwards of $400 million , have seen a dime. No legal action has been taken yet, but could only be a matter of [...]

By: BrainaicX

BrainaicX — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:34:55 +0000

Who needs moral high ground when your standing on a mountain of money…

By: RIAA Calls Downloaders Thieves, Steals Actual Money From Artists » Popular Fidelity » Tech

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:25:35 +0000

[...] fair share.” Ironically (and unsurprisingly), those champions of the starving artist are now stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the people they pretended to champion in the name of [...]

By: ShortWoman» Blog Archive » No Country for Old Shorties

ShortWoman» Blog Archive » No Country for Old Shorties — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:47:00 +0000

[...] this surprise anyone? Really? It turns out the RIAA hasn’t exactly been turning settlement money over to the artists like they were supposed [...]

By: The future of online music « Heir of the Dog

The future of online music « Heir of the Dog — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:01:25 +0000

[...] redistributed to musicians. Whether or not this would actually reach musicians is debatable – the settlements from the mass lawsuits over the past few years have yet to be returned to artists. The introduction of the recordable cassette tape didn’t put an end to record sales. Only in [...]

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Den Fula Gank-ungen : Endemoniada — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:25:32 +0000

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By: RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue — IRA 401k

RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue — IRA 401k — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:58:18 +0000

[...] Edward Gately wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWhen EMI, Universal Music and Warner music reached settlement agreements with the likes of Napster, KaZaA and Bolt, they collected hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation – money that was supposed to go to artists whose rights … [...]

By: RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue | Bittorrent News

RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue | Bittorrent News — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:21:40 +0000

[...] RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue [...]

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RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue | — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:56:47 +0000

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By: John B

John B — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:59:16 +0000

Just goes to show the recording companies aren’t looking out for the artist’s interests (which they implied to be able to sue P2Ps) but only for their own interests. Out of 400m, I bet NONE gets to any artist. Sure am glad those guys aren’t on MY side! So what excuse will they use to steal the next dollar out of our pockets?

By: Musicians Wondering Why They’re Not Seeing A Cut Of RIAA Settlements

Musicians Wondering Why They’re Not Seeing A Cut Of RIAA Settlements — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:33:37 +0000

[...] artists the RIAA likes to claim it represents — and now those musicians are getting angry. Torrent Freak points us to the news that various managers and lawyers representing some big name musicians are [...]

By: RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue « All Things News

RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue « All Things News — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:43:24 +0000

[...] Money, Artists May Sue Filed under: RIAA — Jason Jeffrey @ 5:00 pm Straight from TorrentFreak: “When EMI, Universal Music and Warner music reached settlement agreements with the likes of [...]

By: LINKS: Garfield comedy, RIAA lawsuits help musicians about as much as prozac helps depressed people, overly-harsh punishments « Clint’s blog

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:46:49 +0000

[...] licensing under the guise of “protecting the artists”. So here’s the article: RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue. Still, the RIAA isn’t as bad as Asshole Officers James Bryant and Chris Webley of Coquille [...]

By: BretS

BretS — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:58:32 +0000

It’s what I’ve been doing all my life and I’m not about to change now for your sudden attack of obsessive greed. There was never any problem in the past with recording, being considered legally acceptable. Downloading data is no different than radio taping or recording from LP or tape; or even taping from TV, the rights for which were guaranteed by the Sony vs Betamax ruling. Fair use has nothing to do with theft or piracy, as it is merely for personal non-profit use. Anyone who seriously believes that propaganda should be taken out and shot, or locked up and throw away the key. We don’t believe it of course. If you don’t believe it why do you keep spouting it? We have a sixth sense about such things. For instance, we can tell whenever the RIAA is lying. Simply, whenever they open their cake holes to speak. I pass wind in their general direction. Seriously, if I had to pay their extortionist demands on every title I own, it would be more than their entire operation is worth. Think about it. Likewise too for all you thieving artists & music business people who get everything they want for free without having to bother with long tedious file sharing, and you are the ones who can afford it easily you penny pinchers. And you say we are tightwads. We can’t afford it. Your incomes are like a million times higher than ours.

By: Bret

Bret — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:39:36 +0000

@ 67
You’re just p-d off because u have a different viewpoint, being on the other side of file sharing. Don’t tell me, you get all your music for free right, like the DJs?

No need to start calling people names though because of your bad karma. You’re not in charge buddy. Music fans are. You pander to them for your living. Don’t screw with them. If you do it for love, then quit bitchin about file sharers. A lot of it does not infringe on copright you know, and what may do in some obscure way is what it is, and how it will be. Better get used to it. We the people make the rules, and we have spoken. We say it’s fine and dandy and none of us voted it to be illegal.

By: knp: blog

knp: blog — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:14:33 +0000

RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue…

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By: hiro81

hiro81 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:53:05 +0000

I can’t believe people are surprised by this. RIAA Beach Safety said it all perfectly, about time more American artists woke the fuck up.

By: Squeak

Squeak — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:13:45 +0000

The RIAA thought it was safe in it’s tin suit facing the little guy but with bare ass facing it’s stable of artists. However, when bending over to pick up the soap…

By: No riaa

No riaa — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:38:00 +0000

i and anyone i know wont buy any thing associated with the riaa

By: The weekend didn’t slip through the couch cushions » blog.dreamrealm

The weekend didn’t slip through the couch cushions » blog.dreamrealm — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:39:26 +0000

[...] Heck, with the hundreds of millions gathered from lawsuits and settlements that the RIAA has won, not one dime from those lawsuits has made it into the pockets of the artists. Thankfully the RIAA has suffered a massive blow to their lawsuit campaign, with a federal US judge [...]

By: Wordout - RIAA Pirates

Wordout - RIAA Pirates — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:30:34 +0000

[...] found this via TorrentFreak.There’s a New York Post story about the RIAA not paying artists from settlements received [...]

By: Darian

Darian — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:40:11 +0000

Funny how after all that crying and hollering about people infringing on the artist’s rights, as soon as they actually get the money in hand it magically vanishes in paperwork related costs.

And the RIAA wonders why people use P2P in the first place.

By: lilyleon

lilyleon — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:55:14 +0000

wow…
Ha, ha. And now RIAA screws the labels and artists. RIAA, why not just fileshare instead.
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By: ArtyTorrent

ArtyTorrent — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:05:25 +0000

This news doesn’t directly affect filesharers. What it DOES do is serve as a reminder to musicians. The message is this:
“IF YOU ARE AN ARTIST, DO NOT SIGN A RECORD DEAL. DO NOT BE A PROSTITUTE FOR THE PIMPS OF THE RIAA.”

Anyone that signs a record deal with a major label is getting into bed with the devil. Stay independent. Control your own finances. Leave the lawyers to die.

By: Nate

Nate — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:53:56 +0000

[quote comment="299990"]wow. the RIAA are seriously a bunch of douchebags.[/quote]
Amen!

By: Scientology makes me laugh

Scientology makes me laugh — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:48:25 +0000

Jesus Christ, damn shitheads.
I can understand artists wanting to be compensated for what we have downloaded but if these assholes arent going to give them the money they dexerve from the settlements then whats the point. STOP BOTHERING THE FILE SHARING COMMUNITY

By: Beldin

Beldin — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:27:41 +0000

Look, we already knew that the RIAA is nothing but a bunch of scumbags, so why should this surprise anyone. The blood-sucking lawyers take the biggest portion of any settlement, then the scumbags at RIAA get their share to portion out to their employees. Finally the labels get their cut and there isn’t enough left to give anything to the artists. Typical.

By: LOL

LOL — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:38:40 +0000

So, in other worda, the LAWYERS are making money and the ARTISTS are still starving?

Now I know who paid for the DMCA, it was the lawyer groups!!

By: mierda media

mierda media — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:13:20 +0000

It’s being claimed that after legal bills were subtracted from the hundreds of millions in settlements, there wasn’t much left over to hand out.
You dont pay when you win.
Lying bags of mierda.

By: BadMoJo

BadMoJo — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:21:20 +0000

They will screw anyone they can.

By: RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue at IDTorrent Blog

RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue at IDTorrent Blog — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:31:31 +0000

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By: Bret Wilkins

Bret Wilkins — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:57:45 +0000

When a thief calls others thieves who takes them seriously? You can’t, even if it were true which it’s not. They are the real criminals, and file sharers are just normal decent and honest people, sharing what they have with others, which is what the Internet is all about. Many prefer just to take, because they haven’t learnt to share, or because they have to unfairly pay for uploads also or their IP makes it difficult, but that’s ok too. I don’t give and expect something in return. I don’t know who gets what anyway. This whole war against the Internet and sites offering music should be stopped, and would be if the music mongrels were shut down and put out of business. If CD sales stopped tomorrow, they’d still be suing to the end. The law must clamp down on them and restore some sanity. At least for the sake of all (honest ones) who depend on the Internet for their livelihood and education.

By: Bret Wilkins

Bret Wilkins — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:32:49 +0000

Surely now everyone will see them for the joke they are. File sharers and music lovers full steam ahead.

By: Peter Robeson

Peter Robeson — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:30:06 +0000

Who needs them? When you have a pebble in your shoe you remove it. Leeches on your skin you remove them. Watch them weeping when the economy takes a nosedive, or they suffer an untimely death. Who will grieve for them while they mourn their losses, and because they can’t take it with them? What will they do when their judgment comes? Try to bribe their way out and buy time? Their judge won’t be interested in their ill-gotten wealth.

By: Cyrus really

Cyrus really — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:11:28 +0000

They’ve been screwing the artists for so long, let them see what it feels like for a change. Compensation time is coming!

By: Cyrus R

Cyrus R — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:09:13 +0000

You can be sure they never had any intention of paying the artists. Just part of their propaganda to justify their immoral behavior. Meantime thousands of innocent people have had their lives ruined for nothing.

Good luck with suing them. They don’t even pay up when you win. Even if they did have to pay out millions, it wouldn’t be so much as drop in the bucket to them, more like a grain of sand on the beach. They’re still laughing, and they’re no strangers to litigation. That doesn’t bother them. It’s what they do, what they live for. If it wasn’t for so-called copyright infringement, they’d still be suing their own clients and each other.

The best and only thing is to seize and confiscate all their assets and jail them for a long time, which is still better than they deserve.

By: Cyrus another

Cyrus another — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:58:17 +0000

Doesn’t Prince have his own Concorde? I guess he likes his space but really, that’s just a little wasteful I think!

By: Cyrus R

Cyrus R — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:48:54 +0000

This just confirms what many of us already knew about them. The scum sucking maggots would steal the pennies from a dead man’s eyes, rob their own mothers blind. Even though they already live in shameless luxury, like the churches. The Mafia isn’t so bad in comparison. I for one certainly don’t buy CDs anymore, and if I were a musician I’d give up music before enlisting their “services”. You deal with the devil and you’re sure to get burned. There are other better distribution methods; -the Internet, and look what Prince did. Bittorrent reaches a worldwide audience. Set up a Web site with free samples, and offer albums for whatever people can afford or want to pay, say $1-$5. You’d rake in millions. How much more do you want?

So you decide to go with Sony like the bigshots. Why why why??? When Neil Diamond released his new album in 2005 it may as well have been classified top secret for all the publicity it was given. The only way people found out about it was because of the News stories on the Sony rootkit(c) fiasco. Because of that they ensured that nobody would buy it, and those who now knew about it and wanted it got it via bittorrent. If he had offered it online as suggested he would have been able to afford the latest gold plated diamond studded nuclear powered Lear jet, rather than have to settle for the brass plated version.

By: Melted Metal Web Radio

Melted Metal Web Radio — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:33:24 +0000

Well folks, I think the time has come for an investigation by the Justice Department. The problem is, the current Justice Department has a serious lack of credibility, and that it is tied to the Bush administration’s Copyright Royalty Board (CRM). Big business and big conservative government are taking not only the small guys for a long ride, but most of the middle-sized guys as well. Let’s get a ‘reasonable’ white house administration elected, and send this whole mess to a ‘new and honorable’ Justice Department.

T.J. Grant, VP of Programming
Melted Metal Web Radio
http://www.meltedmetal.com/

By: captain hook

captain hook — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:25:15 +0000

The RIAA’s lawyers ultimately benefit from this. They get paid regardless. They know this is a cash cow for them. They convinced the RIAA that litigation is the best way to improve their bottom lines. These lawyers don’t want file sharing to cease, for fear the money train will disappear. The lawyers have their payments coming, the RIAA is holding on to the cash, hoping for hope, that they can come out ahead, yet their is no accountability for the artists. And the country is heading into a recession. The artists need to come together and file suit against the RIAA for misrepresentation.
The RIAA represents all recorded artists under contract as a whole. Who and why they target certain indivduals for using the internet for copyright infringement seems to be a mystery, but if they represent everyone under contract than they should target each artist’s work that is downloaded or uploaded that way they can treat all artist the same when the time comes to hand out checks to each artist. lol

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By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:54:39 +0000

Again I say F the RIAA, no really go fuck yerself buncha lowlife scumsucking scatmunchers!

By: Artists Tired of Waiting for RIAA to Pay Out at SquirrelFood.net — Music Blog for Nuts — by Jamie Kohns

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:50:52 +0000

[...] have been paid out to the RIAA, but some artists claim they haven’t seen a cent. Read more here and [...]