RIAA Survey: The Sultans of Spin

Written by Ernesto on April 08, 2007 

Like most anti-piracy lobbying organizations, the RIAA knows how to “spin” things around. They protect the rights of a large group of record labels and distributors, and their ability to spin and their lawsuits are two of the most powerful weapons they have.

riaa truth surveyOver at P2Pnet, Jon has put together a survey about these “Sultans of Spin”. I must note that the readers of P2Pnet, TorrentFreak and Zeropaid and other filesharing oriented websites are probably not a representative group of respondents for the entire online population, but it will be still interesting to see the results.

From P2Pnet:

I think it's the first survey of its kind and obviously, the more people who respond, the better. So please tell everyone you know about it.

Spin is the, "sometimes pejorative term signifying a heavily biased portrayal in one's own favor of an event or situation," the Wikipedia sums it up, continuing, spin, "often, though not always, implies disingenuous, deceptive and/or highly manipulative tactics." And it's, borrowed, says the post, "from ball sports such as cricket, where a spin bowler may impart spin on the ball during a delivery so that it will curve through the air or bounce in an advantageous manner".

The Sultans of Spin examines spin-doctoring in the pejorative sense --- the art of presenting stuff as it isn't.

The Sultans of Spin Survey.

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5 Responses

1 Apr 09, 2007 at 01:06 by Jasper van Weerd

Done.

2 Apr 09, 2007 at 14:14 by Brian

Here we goooooooo!

3 Apr 09, 2007 at 14:19 by Brian

I apologize if nearly every reply is money. As most of this is all about it.

4 Apr 10, 2007 at 11:05 by Jerry

What makes me seriously wonder about them is when they go after the Nine Inch Nails fans who were purposely offered samples of the new album, and that this giveaway was authorized by their record label, makes no sense (nor cent$!)…In any case, the RIAA should focus more on lowering music prices, as more and more people are discovering encrypted peer-to-peer solutions like Gigatribe (see http://www.gigatribe.com for example)…

5 Jan 11, 2008 at 20:09 by Google

I Think,Ä°t is very nice information…

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