Comments on: Great PR Coups Of Our Time

By: Gary F

Gary F — Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:18:04 +0000

The RIAA can see its own death and is flailing in an attempt to stop the inevitable. It’s certainly buying itself time, but that’s all.

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:09:17 +0000

Yeah, but the whole of the rest of t’interweb is also full of paedowank, all a few clicks away from your favourite search engine, but nobody (to borrow No Rock’s analogy) is demanding we close down Google.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:23:53 +0000

Er, except Kazzaa is indeed full of paedowank. I got a full screen of paedo results earlier today in mlMac, and I wasn't even looking for grown-up porn, I'd just hit return before getting to the 606 in kid 606. Grim as.

And from their point of view, this is a better tactic than stinging children for $2,000 - I'll bet you Concerned Parent will now be banning little Jocasta and Sergei from using filesharing apps...

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:41:59 +0000

And just to top it all off... I had a quick look at No Rock earlier, and found this: the RIAA now says that Kazaa and the like are full of kiddyporn. God, they're idiots, aren't they?

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:20:16 +0000

Sheesh - can’t remember where I read this now, but lots of her downloads were kids TV theme tunes and nursery rhymes… which just ups the RIAA’s ogre factor by approx. one million per cent.

By: Leon

Leon — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:33:59 +0000

Sorry, yes, my grammar’s fucked. Will edit for clarity, as the letters pages say. Didn’t see yr post about the Wired article until after i posted this, but I’ve read it; interesting stuff. And yes, it pretty much contradicts everything we’ve been told about how we’re making Robbie Williams and Avril Lasagne basically homeless…

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:28:06 +0000

Also, it might be my addled brain, but the second paragraph of yr post doesn't seem to make sense: ...the RIAA seem to think that them being paid $2000 by the mother of a girl... is a sad indictment?

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:21:14 +0000

Todd Dominey is wondering whether there's a fund people can donate to. Although I imagine donating would get you straight on the RIAA list of folk to harrass next.

And, as noted in the Reading sidebar - the majors are using P2P networks to track the popularity of songs, so if a file is getting tons of downloads, the labels can go to the radio stations and get their airplay boosted accordingly, on the grounds that people must want to listen and then buy the track in question. Which rather goes against everything they have to say about P2P networks...