Hatrack River Forum: Open Letter from RIAA President to Pirates

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Posted by IanO (Member # 186) on :

This is hilarious. Took a few paragraphs to get it.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

[ROFL]

Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :

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Now that several congressmen are on our payroll, we can sit back and watch the illegal music market wither and dry up just like the illegal drug market did in the 1980s.

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

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Music isn't some excess luxury people can do without; it's as essential to human existence as water and toilet paper.

Posted by IanO (Member # 186) on :

My favorite is the line just before that, Porter.

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I think we proved with our lawsuit against Napster that we can stop MP3 trading on the Internet. Our subsequent lawsuits against Kazaa, Morpheus, and Aimster also proved this. Our most recent successful lawsuit against Audiogalaxy proved this yet again. Our upcoming lawsuits against Grokster, Limewire and Bearshare will also prove this. Once we think of a way to sue Blubster we'll sue them too. All of this litigation is expensive and is just making the prices of CDs higher. Downloaders, you are just making it worse for yourselves. Once the RIAA has stomped out file trading on the Internet and a CD costs $35, it'll be a well-deserved hangover from your free music binge, and you better believe you're going to regret it.

Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :

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First and foremost, the distribution factor must be considered. A CD produced in a factory in Los Angeles has to be physically shipped to a Wal-Mart in Illinois. It doesn't just appear there through magic. People who are used to downloading music off the internet forget that distribution costs are a major factor in CD price, and they don't realize there is no way for our industry to escape this cost. The cost of physical distribution must be passed onto the purchaser. If anyone reading this can come up with some magical way to distribute music from California to Illinois for free, I'd like to hear it. Maybe this is possible in fantasyland, but definitely not here in reality.

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

I thought the whole thing sounded a little strange, and didn't believe it, but it wasn't until half way through that I was positive. [Big Grin]