[mythtv-users] It's over, the RIAA is toast

[jedi]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:28:06PM +0000, Sarah Hayes wrote:
> Joe Borne wrote:
> > The article says it all. You're all intelligent people, I'll let you 
> > discern for yourself why this is the death knell of the RIAA.
> >
> > /"It looks like Trent Reznor's new Nine Inch Nails album experiment 
> > <http://slashdot.org/mainpage/08/03/03/1420251.shtml?tid=141> is a 
> > success. Among the various options 
> > <http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_options> he gave fans, the most 
> > expensive was the $300 Limited Edition Ultra Deluxe Package. It took 
> > just over a day for that package to completely sell out 
> > <http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080304/162842435.shtml>, earning 
> > Reznor $750,000 in revenue from just that option alone."
> >
> > http://slashdot.org/articles/08/03/05/076221.shtml
> > /
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> As much as I wish it were so I think you'll find the hilarity of Mr. 
> Reznor's actions is just an annoyance to the likes of the RIAA.   This 
> is the same organisation who sued people for illegally obtaining music 
> that one of it's own artists had deposited on USB keys and liberally 
> spread around the globe... wasn't that NiN again?
> 
> I'm not about to do the whole global conspiracy theory and space 
> vampires routine, just simply point out that NiN has been in effect 
> beating something the size of a Brontosaurus with a small cocktail stick.
> 
> The counter argument is, not every artist has the established brand of 
> either Reznor himself or NiN and thus the RIAA is there to promote these 
> smaller artists (which we all admit is rubbish unless you mean 
> manufactured boy/girl bands all singing alike).

    The counter-counter argument is that important and influential
new bands are often discovered by older well established bands. NiN
could promote a new band just as easily as their forebears discovered
new ones. 

    One extra layer of indirection can be removed.

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