Comments on: RIAA Makes Drastic Employee Cuts as Revenue Plummets

By: Anitra Burrows

Anitra Burrows — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:47:00 +0000

Sooooo… I guess I shouldn’t apply here?

By: Royalkin

Royalkin — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:28:00 +0000

LMAO, Excellent! Let’s work on getting that number to zero!

By: dissentist

dissentist — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 18:32:00 +0000

As much as I dislike the RIAA and the mainstream music industry, your comment is completely wrong. I live in the SF bay area, and I constantly hear independent musicians played on our local “alternative” station, which is owned by CBS Radio. See what happened is CBS bought the station, gutted it to save money, and decided to give the program director position to the kid that used to run the saturday night techno show, and things seem to be going ok.

In many cases the DJ does have some say, and in some markets they’re even experimenting with giving them even more leeway to see if it’ll boost ratings. The result? We get to hear dubstep and electro house on a mainstream station.

Say what you will of their greed, but the big players are desperate right now, so they’re definitely trying to expand their vision as it were.

By: Nestor Delgado

Nestor Delgado — Tue, 28 May 2013 19:30:00 +0000

The “industry” has crap talent and terrestrial radio is a closed community where payola runs the ship. Small and talented acts and labels can NEVER hope to be played on the radio, ever. Therefore they need to circumvent the radio/advertiser model and push their product directly to their audience. That’s the real reason why RIAA membership is declining is that their are fewer members because on cannot hope to get on the airwaves through traditional means.

Also the “Top 10″ format of most mainstream radio limits what can be played and not played. The “Disk Jockey” was relegated to an on-air personality and has absolutely no say on what goes on the air. If the music industry is to flourish, a free exchange of ideas, talent and new material unrestricted by copyright laws and Mafia like tactics of the RIAA, major labels and radio/media outfits have to loosen up. That however won’t happen due to greed and the big media owner’s own limited vision.

By: Tom Hawking: “Who’s Destroying the Music Industry? IRS Documents Reveal RIAA Executives Are Rewarded for Failure” | Fugitive Sounds

Tue, 28 May 2013 14:38:33 +0000

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By: membrane

membrane — Sat, 25 May 2013 12:09:00 +0000

What is killing RIAA? Piracy? :D

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Fri, 24 May 2013 18:38:49 +0000

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By: 2013IsRainy

2013IsRainy — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:53:00 +0000

Welcome to the club… the same goes for any government forced service. TV, Radio, News and such. Secret taxes on storage devices and media for the purpose of supporting the artists unions (HAHA yeah sure in the land of bureaucracy) and art creators or whatever. The EU should rule once and for all that the state can go and fuck itself with this kind of bullshit. The media industry must abide by free market rules and not this artificial life support for leeches and labels. The problem is: every country is doing their own thing (so to speak, too many pockets are getting filled with tax payers money) so fighting this obsolete norm is almost impossible (evading taxes by ordering “gifts” from China, not buying ANYthing related to media, boycotting alone does not help anybody)