Posts Tagged ‘RIAA’

Here are the blog posts I starred in Google Reader last week. (If you use Google Reader, you can subscribe to my shared items.)

The Alphonso Jackson Legacy. Mark Ireland comments on the Washington Post’s look at the legacy of HUD chief (and Bush appointee) Alphonso Jackson. While Jackson oversaw the government body in charge of [...]

Cory Doctorow just published a provocative column in the Guardian, “In Defense of Complaining,” in which he argues that complaints, specifically about crippling technology and licensing restrictions, are part of the marketplace in which companies must operate. And he is right. Complaints are the crude way in which consumers tell companies what they want.
Doctorow focuses [...]

Apparently, the RIAA thinks you should have to pay $1.5 million for that copy of MC Hammer’s “Too Legit to Quit” you downloaded for your last 80s party.
Google’s copyright lawyer, William Patry, commented that the bill was the most “outrageously gluttonous IP bill ever introduced in the US.” I think that might be putting it [...]

From joyoftech.com:

Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing points out that the RIAA’s ludicrous stance on copying CDs for personal use is actually even more ludicrous in light of what they were saying just months ago:
The record companies, my clients, have said, for some time now, and it’s been on their Website for some time now, that it’s perfectly [...]

In its efforts to bring about the overthrow of copyright protection by adopting arguments more ridiculous than the Bush Administration’s attempts to exclude Dick Cheney from the executive branch, the RIAA is now arguing that it is illegal for you to transfer music from a CD you purchase to your computer for your own, personal [...]