Goodsounds wrote: > By your use of language, it isn't clear to me that you understand what > a "front" is. The RIAA is the recording industry lobbying > organization. Every industry has one, there's nothing special about > them relative to the hundreds of others.
The RIAA is a front/lobbying group not for the Recording Industry, which is what their name says, but just for the major record labels. The RIAA cares nothing about musicians, composers, singers, recording engineers, studio owners, etc. > I suspect you and I are on the same side of this issue, the approach > for internet music royalties makes no sense. But the biggest dog barks > the loudest, and RIAA has won this one so far. Because the five labels have the most to lose, they have put up the most money. And because Congress is asleep, they have implemented what the RIAA wants. What a lot of coverage misses is that the RIAA speaks for a tiny part of the "music industry" and not only are they biased for their sponsors, they actively hurt large parts of the industry that folks think they represent. Saying that the RIAA represents "the recording industry" is falling for their propaganda. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
