RIAA: Worst Company in America 2007

Written by enigmax on March 20, 2007 

After 15 punishing rounds of combat involving 32 of America’s most hated companies, 100,000 voters have spoken: More hated than Halliburton, more despised than Walmart, the RIAA has defeated all-comers to become the Worst Company in America 2007.

riaa Back in January 2007, The Consumerist began its process to discover exactly who is America’s Worst Company. In addition to the RIAA entry, other companies in the competition included McDonalds, Sony, Walmart, Microsoft, Bank of America, Best Buy, Comcast, Exxon, and last year’s winner, Halliburton.

In its first bout the RIAA took on United Airlines and emerged victorious and in its second beat rival U-Haul, paving its way to the final stages where it faced the mighty wrath of Halliburton, Exxon and Walmart.

As Halliburton took out Walmart with an impressive 69.6% of the vote, the RIAA had to square up to Exxon – and it won, taking 65.7% of the vote, nearly double that of its rival.

Then came the final, dubbed The Final DeathMatch

The Consumerist ranted “RIAA and Halliburton advance to the final round for a fight to the death. Who will emerge “Worst Company in America 2007?” Only one can survive! It will probably be the RIAA!”

And it was! The RIAA collected 53.8% of the vote beating last years winner Halliburton.

The Consumerist felt that the vote sent a clear message: “The internet cares deeply about being able to download music illegally”. Considering the extortionate costs associated with hiring a lawyer, maybe Americans just don’t like being sued.

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6 Responses

1 Mar 20, 2007 at 16:37 by Pyst

Oh the surprise! Could have came to that conclusion without the poll.

2 Mar 23, 2007 at 18:22 by FRESCO

RIAA and SGAE SUCKS

3 Aug 28, 2007 at 17:15 by Kris

Interesting phrase, that “The internet cares deeply about being able to download music illegally.”
Don’t side with the RIAA in their lies. These lawsuits aren’t based on any evidence of illegal downloading. Surely you’re aware of the extent lobbyists have ‘enhanced’ copyright laws to make things like this illegal? Bad laws don’t count.

4 Oct 27, 2007 at 17:35 by oreo51

“Considering the extortionate costs associated with hiring a lawyer, maybe Americans just don’t like being sued.”

… or buying CDs

5 Dec 30, 2007 at 23:28 by arcanine

oreo51 & why would they RIAA is sueing people for copying their own cds to their computers see http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/riaas-target-in-2008-you/

so if you’ve got an ipod and you’ve
got your own cd tracks on it your a criminal, your part of organised crime and you fund terrorism

6 Feb 25, 2008 at 10:31 by Professor

As Hilary Swank/Clinton/Hobbit or whatever her name is/was, said “you might be tempted to copy a song from your CD onto your computer, and then you’ve stolen and pirated it!”. Note that even to feel the urge is theft and prosecutable if they had a sniff of it.

Who in their right mind will start believing this? Yet that is what they would have us believe. Is that rational logic? Fair use be damned they say. Let’s go after the weak, the innocent, and the sick. Who are the sick twists really?

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