Can’t they send someone to jail?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe Donnie Ienner?\u00c2\u00a0 Or Charlie Walk?<\/p>\n
Or how about a really big fish.\u00c2\u00a0 Clive Davis.\u00c2\u00a0 Operating like a Mafia kingpin, having all his henchmen do the work, making like he’s untouchable.<\/p>\n
Ten million dollars?\u00c2\u00a0 A drop in the bucket?<\/p>\n
Gonna eliminate pay for play?<\/p>\n
No way.<\/p>\n
Then again, everyone’s leaving the building but the major labels and terrestrial radio stations involved in this circle jerk.<\/p>\n
I mean the RIAA talks about justice.\u00c2\u00a0 Put bootleggers in jail.\u00c2\u00a0 Sue file-traders til it HURTS!<\/p>\n
I agree physical duplication\/piracy is a crime that the perpetrators should pay for.\u00c2\u00a0 But, in those cases, the perps are put out of business, put in jail, made to pay so badly that they wouldn’t even THINK of running this scam again.\u00c2\u00a0 As for file-traders?\u00c2\u00a0 What’s $11,000 to a college student?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, the difference between having to drop out of school to pay the judgment or continuing to be educated so he can live a more fruitful life as a contributing member of society.<\/p>\n
Ten MILLION?\u00c2\u00a0 What is that, gross on a Celine Dion album?\u00c2\u00a0 TODAY?\u00c2\u00a0 A mere FRACTION of what Sony made shoving Celine Dion albums down our throat?<\/p>\n
There’s no personal liability.\u00c2\u00a0 Just a shrug of the shoulders and this miniscule payment.<\/p>\n
I mean what’s more heinous.\u00c2\u00a0 Criminals duplicating the lame hits the major labels sell or these same labels changing the cultural landscape of our great country, making us listen to their crappy priorities?<\/p>\n
Who’s gonna give me back decades of radio listening?\u00c2\u00a0 Who’s gonna pay for the worthless FM radio in my car?\u00c2\u00a0 Who’s going to compensate ME for enduring Sony’s negative impact on my life?\u00c2\u00a0 How can these people be STOPPED?<\/p>\n
By making the time fit the crime.\u00c2\u00a0 Yup, send somebody up the river.\u00c2\u00a0 THAT’LL scare you.\u00c2\u00a0 How many famous people are trading on insider tips TODAY?\u00c2\u00a0 After Martha Stewart?\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, that’s not what she ultimately went to jail for, but they got Al Capone on tax evasion, don’t forget.<\/p>\n
Makes me sick.\u00c2\u00a0 This judgment means almost nothing.\u00c2\u00a0 Just another business outsider being snookered by insiders.\u00c2\u00a0 The major labels have insidious practices that they hide under the aegis of bringing joy to people.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I’ve got to tell you, I got no joy from hearing all those lame divas Sony shoved down my throat for the last decade and a half, the success of whom led OTHER labels to release the work of equally vapid trillers.\u00c2\u00a0 Payment?\u00c2\u00a0 How about if the diva of MY choice comes to MY house, drops my pants and shows ME a little love.\u00c2\u00a0 Then MAYBE!<\/p>\n
And it’s not only the divas, we’ve got the rappers too.\u00c2\u00a0 If this was the music EVERYBODY wanted, wouldn’t it do a bit better LIVE?<\/p>\n
The whole musical landscape has been perverted by pay for play\/independent promotion practices and the ultimate settlement is TEN MILLION DOLLARS?<\/p>\n
Makes me puke.<\/p>\n
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