Another fine example of extreme stupidity by the RIAA.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » June 16, 2006, 2:53 pm

Apparently it's not a copyright infringement to put up on YouTube a video of yourself dancing to copyrighted music.

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=33631

http://www.broadbandreports.com/r0/down ... ucriaa.jpg

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » June 16, 2006, 2:58 pm

I've noticed a lot of full song music videos on that Tube thing using clips from movies/games.

I guess if you cross music and video it's ok!

Fash · Post by **Fash** » June 16, 2006, 6:57 pm

The RIAA is completely fucking retarded, and costs way more money to operate than any fucking bullshit 'losses' the music industry has suffered.

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » June 16, 2006, 8:36 pm

Fash wrote:The RIAA is completely fucking retarded, and costs way more money to operate than any fucking bullshit 'losses' the music industry has suffered.

You might be right about that. Dont know how it is in the US, but the danish version of RIAA are actually running at a loss.
Read an interview with some music companies recently that considered stopping paying them because they get nothing out of it.
The music business in Denmark pay around 1 millon danish kr (around 169721$) yearly to our anti copyrigh organisation, and they get nothing back, get bad publicity every time RIAA breaks the law or try to blackmail kids into paying.
We had a lot of fun situations here the last few years that made them pretty unpopular:
Using covert agent that try to pressure DJs into selling them a burned CD (using covert agents are illegal in DK)
Crashing net parties (which have always been ignored before) but forgetting to get any proof of what anyone had, so they just send out bills to everyone and telling them to pay 20000 danisk kroner, or they would get sued along with everyone else.

Hopefully theyll someday figure out that paying lots for NO profit, but lots of bad press is a bad idea.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » June 16, 2006, 8:40 pm

Hesten wrote:You might be right about that. Dont know how it is in the US, but the danish version of RIAA are actually running at a loss.

uhh, any organization created to represent an industry is going to "operate at a loss" because it generates no revenue.

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » June 17, 2006, 5:09 am

kyoukan wrote:
Hesten wrote:You might be right about that. Dont know how it is in the US, but the danish version of RIAA are actually running at a loss.
uhh, any organization created to represent an industry is going to "operate at a loss" because it generates no revenue.

No clue how RIAA work in the US, but the idea in DK was that there should be a profit in it somewhere. The music industry pay the aniti pirate organization, they find pirates, sue pirates, earn cash from then, and the music industry hopefully get some cash back, and all those evil pirates go away.
Instead they throw away a LOT of cash, and generate a lot of bad PR.