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| From | Sam Smith <sam@lullabypit.com> |
| Subject | Re: The Onion on the RIAA |
| Date | Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:36:06 -0500 |
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It's gotten to the point where I almost can't tell reality from satire
anymore.
garymaher@juno.com wrote:
>'Tis the season:
>
>DECEMBER 2, 2005 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the wake of Tuesday's
>announcement by the Recording Industry Association of America that it was
>investigating whether those who tell friends about new music might be
>breaking copyright laws (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43029), it
>was revealed today that the as the holiday season approaches, the RIAA
>has been lobbying Congress intensely to enact legislation prohibiting
>Americans from giving prerecorded compact discs as gifts. When
>questioned about it, Mitch Bainwol, the RIAA's Chairman and CEO, admitted
>to the lobbying campaign and explained the rationale for the
>organization's efforts: "It is an indisputable fact that if someone
>manages to come into possession of a CD, that person can easily make a
>limitless supply of illegal copies. If this person has received the CD
>as a gift, then this person never even paid for the CD which is the
>source of all these illegal copies. The best way to curtail this
>patently illegal conduct is to prohibit people from misusing CDs by
>giving them to otherse." Bainwol says his organization strongly
>disagrees with those who claim that the ability to give CDs as gifts
>actually increases sales. "We have studies that prove exactly the
>opposite. You can arrive at the same result using basic common sense. I
>mean, if someone receives a CD as a gift, they haven't paid a penny for
>it, have they? How can that not destroy our business? In any event,
>these are our products, so we should be able to control how people use
>them."
>
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Sam Smith, PhD
1805 Brantley St.
Winston-Salem NC 27103
336.480.6179 /m
sam@lullabypit.com
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...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the
lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in
strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing
behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice
kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch,
and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing
from your heart.
- John Millington Synge
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