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The RIAA has a business (distributing content) based on a model that is completely obsolete and no longer works anymore. It all started the day music was converted into ones and zeroes, and therefore perfect clones of the final product could be, for the first time, distributed by electrons by anyone to anyone who knew how to. It was not easy 20 years ago, but nowadays any kid or even a trained monkey is capable of it.
The RIAA (and any similar corporation in the world) doesn't have a purpose anymore, because the business model doesn't exist anymore. Period.
Exactly the same happened with the ICE industry when the fridge was invented. Learn from the past.
Who says it is a crime to hear or copy a song someone created? Musicians have the chance (as it's been for centuries) to PERFORM their works to make money. In the XX century a technology appeared that allowed music to be recorded and put into some physical media, so it could be sold in the millions to anyone with ears. In the XXI, a new technology emerged that destroyed media, so the business dissapeared. Let's move on.
What to me is unbelieavable is that an organization thinks it's NOT a crime to sell a product for €20 or more, of which the creator, the artist without whom there would be NOTHING to sell, will get €1 if he's lucky, or maybe even nothing.
I hope Myspace and *artist-sells-direct-from-the-net* free music and artists for good.
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