RE: The RIAA are a bunch of commies

["Paul Weissman" <paul@nioterra.com>]

if the RIAA, by the way, really were communists musicians might be a bit
happier.  ;) the RIAA are in fact capitalists, operating in a non-fair
market environment.

> America), I seriously have a hard time
> understanding how anyone stands to gain from
> this. I don't know what the advantage is for

who is the 'anyone' you are referring to?  it's very easy to make a case 
for
how the record companies can stand to gain.  more difficult to make a case
for the artists.  you make it sound like the RIAA is interested in
artists... their whole purpose is to support record company interest, NOT
artist interest.  what would you expect from them?





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Richards [mailto:kohntarkosz@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 12:32 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: The RIAA are a bunch of commies
>
>
> I think what it comes down to is that the RIAA is
> realizing that they and the record companies they
> represent are fastly becoming obsolete, and
> they're doing everything they can do stop that
> from happening.
>
> I have one question: if a song of mine gets
> played on a webcast just once, how much will I
> get from the RIAA for that broadcast? Will it be
> substantially more or less (or the same) as what
> I stand to make if someone hearing the broadcast
> decides to buy my CD (which for the sake of
> argument, let's say can be bought from me
> directly for $10).
>
> My point is, a seriously doubt that most of the
> artists out there who might concievably get
> webcast airplay. Unless we're talking about Led
> Zeppelin or The Who (who can played like 10 times
> a day, everday on each classic rock station in
> America), I seriously have a hard time
> understanding how anyone stands to gain from
> this. I don't know what the advantage is for
> getting a check for 7 cents because a college
> station in Alberta Canada or New Jersey or
> wherever played one of my songs at 4:00 am. But I
> DO know the advantage, if, say, 10 people who
> hear that broadcast (and let's just for the sake
> of argument say 8 of them are listening to the
> webcast), decide they like what they hear and
> follow up and actually buy my CD. If CARP ends up
> pushing all non-commerical broadcasting off the
> web, I think we end up losing in the wrong run.
>
>
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