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RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs

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LOS ANGELES�The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that it will be taking legal action against anyone discovered telling friends, acquaintances, or associates about new songs, artists, or albums. "We are merely exercising our right to defend our intellectual properties from unauthorized peer-to-peer notification of the existence of copyrighted material," a press release signed by RIAA anti-piracy director Brad Buckles read. "We will aggressively prosecute those individuals who attempt to pirate our property by generating 'buzz' about any proprietary music, movies, or software, or enjoy same in the company of anyone other than themselves." RIAA attorneys said they were also looking into the legality of word-of-mouth "favorites-sharing" sites, such as coffee shops, universities, and living rooms.

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Bahaha, seriously???

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Originally posted by jennypie Bahaha, seriously???

I cited the source.....

Oh boy. Oh dear. Oh GOD! We had an intense meeting about this today. I lol'd so hard. There goes part of my job, too.

LOL

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Originally posted by Frenchie Oh boy. Oh dear. Oh GOD! We had an intense meeting about this today. I lol'd so hard. There goes part of my job, too.

whats your job?

the riaa does not realize that they are fucking things up more than fixing them.

"lets make people think we are asshole control freak millionaires who do not care about our audience hate us some more...that will make them want to spend money."

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Originally posted by Allied Nations whats your job?

Public Relations and Artist Representation for Universal Music Canada/Group.

yall nigs postin in a troll tread.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On yall nigs postin in a troll tread.

lol you seem to be the only one that caught on.

No no, Ben. This is actually going on, onion or not.

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Originally posted by Frenchie No no, Ben. This is actually going on, onion or not.

You can't be fucking serious.

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Originally posted by jennypie Bahaha, seriously???

It's from "The Onion", lol

I am, sadly. The onion just twisted it all around (and it's not THAT pathetic) but they want people to not "promote" piracy. So they think that by people not sharing music that they have, that is obviously easily downloadable, that maybe people will go out and buy the music themselves. Everyone knows that as soon as music hits stores (or before), it's online ready to be downloaded at the click of a mouse. Music industry, evil.

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Originally posted by Frenchie I am, sadly. The onion just twisted it all around (and it's not THAT pathetic) but they want people to not "promote" piracy. So they think that by people not sharing music that they have, that is obviously easily downloadable, that maybe people will go out and buy the music themselves. Everyone knows that as soon as music hits stores (or before), it's online ready to be downloaded at the click of a mouse. Music industry, evil.

I was writing a long-winded post here, but I know you are well aware of the reasons people do it. So yeah. They just need to pull that stick out of their ass and realize, this is not 1900 anymore.

I find it funny that the onion posts it now when we've been dealing with the riaa for weeks now at work with the same issue.

Going off of what Trish said, how in God's name would they even plan to enforce something like that?

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Originally posted by idoru Going off of what Trish said, how in God's name would they even plan to enforce something like that?

Just like they enforce filesharing....

to use the NHL campaign of adverts....


"is this the year?"

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel Just like they enforce filesharing....

Exactly.

It's silly, really. They tell us to send new music to 2-3 different people 2 days before it comes out for reviews if they wish to give one, so I do that. It's part of my job and it's what I've been doing since February. They want us to stop doing that because it doesn't help with the piracy. Sometimes we send out unfinished copies (1 or 2 songs missing, no art work, sound might be a little off) but normally it's a polished copy. What were NOT suppose to do is post the music publicly and have to make sure the people we send it to wont do that.

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Originally posted by Frenchie It's silly, really. They tell us to send new music to 2-3 different people 2 days before it comes out for reviews if they wish to give one, so I do that. It's part of my job and it's what I've been doing since February. They want us to stop doing that because it doesn't help with the piracy. Sometimes we send out unfinished copies (1 or 2 songs missing, no art work, sound might be a little off) but normally it's a polished copy. What were NOT suppose to do is post the music publicly and have to make sure the people we send it to wont do that.

Right, but it is also impossible to tell who did it. They could have made a copy for 1 of their friends and they posted it. Reasoning they always give out is the biggest crock of shit.

The music I send out makes it to torrent sites before I even send it to people to listen to, so I don't think I'd ever get blamed for anything neither would the person who I sent it to even if they did upload it somewhere. So it really is impossible to know on my end.

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Originally posted by Frenchie The music I send out makes it to torrent sites before I even send it to people to listen to, so I don't think I'd ever get blamed for anything neither would the person who I sent it to even if they did upload it somewhere. So it really is impossible to know on my end.

Ugh this is the exact reason why the industry needs to get their head out of their ass.

Does the RIAA need agents? I need a job.

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