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GreyFace “Innermost” Review
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Most would agree that being inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame is the highest honor a musician can earn in his or her lifetime. It shows the world that you are among the highest echelon of performers. The Hall of Fame is already home to many great musicians: Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Elvis, and many more are already among its ranks. This year saw the induction of five more bands that have forever left their mark on the industry.
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The CEO of the RIAA (who represents Sony, EMI, Universal, and Warner Bros. and countless other major labels who wish to sue you and use the RIAA as a front to keep their PR up.) released a letter today explaining why suing you, especially 400 college students, was necessary.
He explains why people are losing their jobs, why RIAA is losing money, and why it is wrong. While I do not engage in illegal file sharing and do pay for my music, I do not believe that is the major factor contributing to the crash of the music industry. The music industry, being capitalistic in nature, goes through booms and busts like any capitalist economy or industry. The are currently experiencing a bust and aren't helping it any by churning out massive amounts of crap, such as giving Paris Hilton a record deal.
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The RIAA, who has notoriously refused to change their business model and opted to sue its own user base (sometimes legit and sometimes frivolous) has one the worst company of the year award from "The Consumerist".
They beat out Haliburton, who has been criticized massively by people on the left and the right politically for their war profiteering. To beat out Haliburton the RIAA had to hack off fiscal conservatives AND hippies. This is quite a feat.
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Streaming music, movies, videos, whatever has been around for a while (see: TV and Radio) and used for various forms of entertainment. Recently the RIAA lobbied to get a law passed that would require
"For noncommercial webcasters, the fee will be $500 per channel, for up to 159,140 Aggregate Tuning Hours (one listener listening for an hour) per month. Noncommercial webcasters who exceed that level pay at the commercial rate for all listening in excess of that limit."
This could be twisted to say, that if I have iTunes running on one computer, then a router to stream the music to me, I would have to pay for it, even though I already paid fro the music I own.
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