for a total of $222,000.This crusade of theirs is growing to the point of insanity. $9,250 per song for 24 songs she was sharing on Kazaa? Once again the RIAA fails to realize where the industry is heading, and succeeds in nothing more than digging themselves deeper and deeper into their own grave. All this and all of their other bullshit does is make people want to support them less, and make piracy look like more and more of a better option.
DRM isn't working to solve the piracy problem? This is obviously because it isn't good enough, and needs to be made MORE restrictive.
Album sales are down? This must be just because of piracy and lack of restrictive DRM, and not because our customers are growing tired of the way they're being treated, or the fact that we're willing to make an album for any black person willing to sign their life away, and expect it to sell. (1, 2).So here's my message to you, RIAA. Sign artists who actually have potential for artistic development, not artists who can make one single last the length of an entire album. Let me do what I want with my music (including make it into a ring tone). Stop using your settlements to pad your pockets, and actually give the money you make from lawsuits to the artists who MADE the music these people are "stealing" (for the record, not one penny of the countless $3000 settlements has made it back to the musicians).
Until then, I'm only buying used music, and more and more of your precious remaining real artists
will show you that they don't need you.
