March is Boycott RIAA month

From the brilliant people of Gizmodo :
Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are: Boycott the RIAA in March - Gizmodo:

Alright, we've been following the RIAA's increasingly frequent affronts to privacy and free speech lately, and it's about time we stopped merely bitching and moaning and did something about it. The RIAA has the power to shift public policy and to alter the direction of technology and the Internet for one reason and one reason alone: it's totally loaded. Without their millions of dollars to throw at lawyers, the RIAA is toothless. They get their money from us, the consumers, and if we don't like the way they're behaving, we can let them know with our wallets.

With that in mind, Gizmodo is declaring the month of March Boycott the RIAA month. We want to get the word out to as many people as humanly possible that we can all send a message by refusing to buy any album put out by an RIAA label. Am I saying you should start pirating music? Not at all. You can continue to support the artists you enjoy and respect in a number of ways.

The campaign is simple. Basically boycott anything put out by Warner Music (US), EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France) and Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), the companies that fund the RIAA and their ridiculous campaigns.

The RIAA basically uses your money to put out stupid websites like CampusDowloading.com or to think up genius ideas like the "incrimate yourself" site P2P Lawsuits. This last one is a riot.

Not only does P2P Lawsuits invite kids to embrace their definition of p2p as stealing. No! If a kid agrees that p2p filesharing is a crime, then the RIAA has them pay the privilege of a discounted settlement that's usually around $4000.

A settlement for what's basically the equivalent of a kid giving their friends a cassette tape for copying.

And republicans want to change the wasteful courts through tort reform but they won't even blink at the legal vultures who represent the RIAA? What about these idiots who find nothing better to do than to harrass and intimidate college kids and the universities in which the filesharing is occurring.

Ridiculous.

As an aside : Sorry Michael R., I don't care how much Hilary Rosen has done for gays and lesbians in this country. Hilary J. Rosen is still the root of all DRM evil as far as I am concerned.

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