http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/ Engadget Comments for RIAA petitions to lower artist royalties, weakens piracy arguments http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 11th 2006 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 9th 2006 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 9th 2006 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.riaaradar.com/]]>Dec 9th 2006 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 9th 2006 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 9th 2006 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 9th 2006 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/
I support any artist by going to concerts, that way they get alot of the monies. So now what's the RIAA going to do? Say they're going to charge a fee for artists to sing their songs? This is going to go bad for the fat cats when people just distribute their works online for free then organize concerts for funding. No more albums, just free tunes and paying for live shows. THAT I would agree to. ]]>Dec 9th 2006 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 9th 2006 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/
But more importantly, you should look at the sales of cell phone ringtones.
If you were to count worldwide sales, it is easily a multi-billion dollar market. With the US taking a decent amount of sales. Also you have to realize that the average US ringtone costs $2-3 per song.

http://www.bmi.com/news/200604/20060403a.asp]]>Dec 9th 2006 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 9th 2006 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 9th 2006 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/
Maybe now the artists "standing by" the RIAA against the "vicious pirates" will hop off the bandwagon and start attacking the right source.]]>Dec 9th 2006 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/
any cd you've ever bought is a digital recording. no shit.]]>Dec 9th 2006 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 9th 2006 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/
I gotta have that!]]>Dec 9th 2006 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?productID=285 ^_^]]>Dec 9th 2006 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 9th 2006 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 9th 2006 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/At the risk of sounding sophomoric, anyone for meeting at Steven Marks' house and giving it a good ole fashion rolling? *evil grin* ]]>Dec 9th 2006 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 10th 2006 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 9th 2006 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/The NMPA, MPA,(Music Publishers Assoc.) have also jumped on the band wagon of abuse due to the RIAA's example. The MPA has even called for people who use tablture to have," some jail time would be nice." Tablature is crude and usually from memory examples of how one might go about playing a particular peice of music. It is used as a teaching aide. If they put all the artists in training in "jail" who will write the music then? They too say they are for the "Artist" How can this be?
Music stores in Great Briton have been told to pay for the songs that some random stiffs off the street tried to play. Pay up or close your doors was the message.
We the people need to get angry at these people and close THEM down!]]>Dec 9th 2006 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 9th 2006 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 9th 2006 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/
Unfortunately for the rest of us, we're still trying to find out how we can make money off of the homeless person on the corner and that family that just had their house burned down. I know you guys and your brains...any ideas on how I could do it? I'm sure you could find something.

If you're a complete idiot and think I'm being serious, look up sarcasm. If you're American, and you buy music, you're a complete moron. Someone commented that artists make a buck off of each album, but only the luckiest of artists make more than a quarter. If you want to support a band, buy their merchandise, go to their shows, or, if you're not a fan of either of those, send them a check. Even if a tour bus got good gas mileage, that CD you bought off iTunes only got them 3 miles (30mpg/$2.50 per gallon).

And "Orb Of Clarity" is a spoiled brat who, unable to take responsibility for his shortcomings, constantly looks for a scapegoat. Congratulations on missing your chance at the Jews...you really could have been one of the lucky ones in a prison cell right about now.]]>Dec 10th 2006 1:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Dec 11th 2006 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Mar 1st 2007 5:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/Mar 1st 2007 6:17AM