I have been watching the news lately, and alot of what I see has been dedicated to the so-called “crime” of file-sharing. The RIAA, the same organization which notifies the public whenever an artist’s newly-released record hits “silver”, “gold”, or the ever-famous “platinum” status, has been slapping subpoenas on ordinary citizens in the United States, Canada, and even Europe, charging such people with “stealing, or tampering with, the copyrights of music artists”.
First of all, let this be certain: the RIAA is an organization of people who look out for the welfare and prosperity of the music industry fatcats, not for the artists. This organization is only satisfied with the three words: “Buy My CD”. Anything else is of no importance to this organization.
The organization only uses the word “copyright” for the benefit of the people who they are supposed to represent: the fatcats. To this end they will use and construe with any type of legal jargon that will either confuse the public and/or win the day for their clients.
Second, why is it that the music artists themselves are so against file-sharing? Look at how much money they make through live concerts and signature memorabilia! They can believe those utter lies about copyrights construed by the RIAA and the US government if they want to, but here’s a fact:
Most people will probably buy the artists new CD for the cover and the content of anything but the music on the CD, if they really had a reason to buy a CD.
Some of my friends have bought all of T.A. Shakur’s CD’s, but not for the music on that little plastic thing called a compact disk! They’ll buy it for anything but the music on the CD, like the photos, lyrics, and personal quotes of Tupac Amaru Shakur.
And finally, since when did music have a price upon it? I mean, do you pay for listening to the radio (unless you have satellite radio)?
If music should have a price, it should only be for that little plastic thing called a compact disk, not for the music that you listen to, and should have a right to listen to.
So, in that case, screw the so-called “record industry”! Music is not an object!
