{"id":3634,"date":"2002-10-15T12:24:51","date_gmt":"2002-10-15T17:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2002-10-15T12:24:51","modified_gmt":"2002-10-15T17:24:51","slug":"on_the_road_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/15\/on_the_road_to.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Road to Oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fine article on how how to destroy your own industry<\/a>, the RIAA way.<\/p>\n

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  • Be sanctimonious<\/b>: Claim to be more concerned about the artists than about your profits. You are selfless; your only interest is paying the musicians, without whom you would be nothing. Pray that nobody remembers countless rockers who signed away their souls on recording contracts and were dumped the moment their sales started slipping.\n
  • Misunderstand your market<\/b>: When you count the songs being swapped on peer-to-peer networks, do not notice that most are moldy oldies. It’s still theft, you argue, even if you yourself stopped paying royalties for those songs in 1961. Blame piracy, not taste, for your inability to sell new songs that no radio station will play.\n
  • Lie<\/b>: Go on Kazaa, count the MP3 versions of songs you produced, old and new, and multiply that number by the current retail price of a CD; howl that you are losing a fortune. Forget that a Buddy Holly album sold for $2.95 in 1958; you sell records for much more now, and that’s the price you use when calculating your losses — it’s more impressive.<\/p>\n

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    A fine article on how how to destroy your own industry, the RIAA way. Be sanctimonious: Claim to be more concerned about the artists than about your profits. 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