Ahhhhh... yes. The RIAA is not necessarily speaking for musicians with all of this lawsuit BS.
MUSICIANS SAY NO TO PERSECUTION AND PROSECUTION OF MUSIC LOVERS |
| June 30th 2003
In response to the continuing legal attacks by the RIAA and major record labels on internet music sharing, which now include both criminal charges and civil suits against individuals, musicians are joining together to say NO to the action supposedly being taken on our behalf. Just because the major labels haven't figured out a way to make money out of the internet doesn't mean that individuals who have shared music should go to prison, or be forced into bankruptcy. The industry is alienating the very people it hopes to sell music to in future with its heavy handed action. With its collective failure to understand the internet, or the benefit it derives from the peer to peer networks that have sprung up in the vacuum created by that failure, the industry has now turned to desperate methods. Suing your customers one by one is not a business model." |
Found over at Ryan's.
