Essentially the RIAA is group of greedy whores composed of white-collar, record label, dickweeds and distributors who combined push close to 90% of all that lame music into our ears, of which, 97% is complete carp shit. Now, I'm not in the boardroom, so I don't know what these guys are smoking on their lunch breaks, but the RIAA has now tried persuading campuses to basically nark on their students, i.e., suspected file-sharers. This wasn't a tap on the shoulder and asking some of the
.edus to whisper a few rumors into their ears, either. These pricks actually wanted names and IP addresses, and I guess I'm proud to say that The University of Wisconsin told the RIAA to get a subpoena if they wanted that information, but I could really give a shit if they're rat bastards or not because I'm not particularly proud of where I'm from.
Anyway, it makes me think about that one chick a couple years back who got busted. She was a MIT student downloading mp3s at T1 speeds (and who the hell wouldn't?) The RIAA offered her a settlement out of court where she would have to pay them, like $4000 or some ridiculous number like that. This chick said she couldn't afford it so the RIAA dickwads suggested she drop out of school and get a job to pay for it. Holy fuck. Yea, drop out of MIT then be a waitress to basically pay a ticket; thenceforth doomed to a life of poverty because she didn't have the art work to go along with her Fall Out Boy CD, which happened to be written on with a Sharpie. RIAA. I fucking hate you.
They've done this with thousands of people: tell them to write out a check for their wrongdoings so the courts don't get involved, and people accede! I'm guessing there have been about 25,000 cases so far, which makes me ponder upon how many retards pissed their pants at the thought of going to jail and started giving money away. The average settlement now is around $3000, and even though well over half the people in this country are pussies, let's just estimate that 5000 of those 25,000 settled. I'm no mathematician, but it would seem the RIAA banked about $20 million without even proving Dick allowed Jane to download 'Staind - I cry like a bitch.mp3.' In the end, the RIAA doesn't want any of these cases to go to court. Why? Well, duh, because they can't prove shit, as much as they would like you to believe otherwise.
Truthfully, these money-grubbing whores don't have an argument, either. They claim that file-sharing destroys the recording industry rather than the shitty music itself. Well how fucking convenient. Reality check, mother fucker. This is a simple 'survival of the fittest' situation, meaning good music is purchased and kept, and shitty music is downloaded for free and played in dance and strip clubs. Suck it up, already. The artists are only making pennies per CD sold, anyway, so the bands who tour and sell merchandise probably don't even care their music is being downloaded for free (unless they did a shitty cover of "Whiskey in the Jar," then apparently they care a lot.)
What about how incompetent the RIAA are? I mean, I guess it's kinda sad that big, business boys fuck up so royally, yet now that I think about it, stupid, White men have been doing dumbfuck crap for years in a lot of different professions. The RIAA took the cake when they sued the dead woman, though. I had to go look this one up again for this post because it was so funny. Some shithead Lawyers who represented several record companies had filed suit against an 83 year-old woman who'd been dead for two months because of some 700 songs she'd made available to the public. What's worse is the daughter had sent her mother's death certificate to the RIAA in response to an initial warning letter, yet they'd still filed suit on the deceased. Holy fuck-up.
Then in December of '06, the RIAA tried suing
allofmp3.com for $1.6 trillion, claiming that the 11 million songs downloaded caused approximately $150,000 less profits per song nabbed. In the end it seemed the RIAA had no jurisdiction for the lawsuit because they operate out of Mother Russia---doh! Gotta love them fucking pierogies, hey?
Simple mathematical formula:
Greed + RIAA = sue-happy, cocksuckers.
Man, if I even get a whiff of the RIAA coming to my place, I'm suing them first. That's right,
me first. I'm suing them for every CD I actually bought that got scratched or cracked, every cassette of mine that's ever been eaten, and every vinyl that's ever warped. Rest assured, though, mostly I'll be suing them for the CDs we've all purchased for $15 that, on average, had about 2.3 good songs on them, then had to sell 'em to CD Exchange for $5 bucks a week later just to maybe not take in the ass so badly.
I want my money back on all that shit, RIAA shit-dicks, because I paid for it all and for whatever reason, I can no longer pass that music onto my heirs once I'm gone. In fact, now that I think about all the musical injustices in my life, I want reparations for all my mother's missing 8-tracks, too! And I'm gonna get all my friends together and file a class action lawsuit that will almost be as stupid as your collective existences. The operative word being 'almost.' Assholes.
I'll save DRM for another time . . . I'm fucking tired.