Friday, December 12, 2003
Recording Industry Adolescent Abuse
Recording industry corporate weasels harrassing the parents of children who download music from the internet? Might lawsuits aimed at the parents of these children have some negative financial impact on the welfare of those children? Toss some RIAA geek into the hoosegow for a couple of months for endangering the welfare of a child. Let em think of it as an "educational" experience. They can learn a couple of Blues tunes while they're at it.
I have mixed feelings about the whole music download thing, for the same reason I have problems with the cheap bozo who purchases a book from a bookstore, reads it, and returns it for a full refund inside the thirty day return limit. But in this case we're talking kids, who don't understand the pros and cons and intricacies of such trade. So leave the kids alone RIAA. Go pick on someone your own size you greedy playground stalking bullies.
Maybe the "music" industry should stop churning out oceans of mindless mass marketed tweeny-pop garbage that they market to 13 year olds at 18 bucks per CD. Did it ever occur to these music industry vermin that most of the children they aggressively target aren't running around with $18 burning a hole in their pocket, and that might account to some extent for "slumping sales" and internet downloads. I'm no economics genius, thats for sure, but maybe they should try selling their shitty products to people who actually have some money.
Kick the Leftist offers more on the subject.
Thats all. I gotta go video-record twenty hours of I Married a Sleazy Corporate Music Industry Executive and a hundred hours of hideous Classic Rock radio programming which I intend to hand out as Christmas presents to people I dislike. If the RIAA or the VCR-police or whoever the hell else is out there prowling around in the webbery, doesn't like it, too bad for them. Come and get me you dirty bastards!
And thats my 2 cent download on that.
I have mixed feelings about the whole music download thing, for the same reason I have problems with the cheap bozo who purchases a book from a bookstore, reads it, and returns it for a full refund inside the thirty day return limit. But in this case we're talking kids, who don't understand the pros and cons and intricacies of such trade. So leave the kids alone RIAA. Go pick on someone your own size you greedy playground stalking bullies.
The industry blames illegal downloading of music for slumping sales of CDs.
Maybe the "music" industry should stop churning out oceans of mindless mass marketed tweeny-pop garbage that they market to 13 year olds at 18 bucks per CD. Did it ever occur to these music industry vermin that most of the children they aggressively target aren't running around with $18 burning a hole in their pocket, and that might account to some extent for "slumping sales" and internet downloads. I'm no economics genius, thats for sure, but maybe they should try selling their shitty products to people who actually have some money.
Kick the Leftist offers more on the subject.
I'm feel sorry for the music industry. They've now sued the family of a 13-year old who downloaded songs off the Internet. It's unfortunate that so many of these suits are aimed at poverty-stricken families.
Thats all. I gotta go video-record twenty hours of I Married a Sleazy Corporate Music Industry Executive and a hundred hours of hideous Classic Rock radio programming which I intend to hand out as Christmas presents to people I dislike. If the RIAA or the VCR-police or whoever the hell else is out there prowling around in the webbery, doesn't like it, too bad for them. Come and get me you dirty bastards!
And thats my 2 cent download on that.
