Comments on: The RIAA Wants To Finger Your Kids http://highorbitpodcast.com/2006/06/16/50/ Music, news, and feedback from all over the quadrant. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:44:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Christopher Penn, Financial Aid Podcast http://highorbitpodcast.com/2006/06/16/50/comment-page-1/#comment-398 Christopher Penn, Financial Aid Podcast Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:19:21 +0000 http://highorbitpodcast.com/2006/06/16/50#comment-398 This, more than anything, is why the RIAA is on the way out the door. Not because they're overzealous in enforcing copyright, or because their tactics are legally and ethically questionable - lots of professions fit that category (even mine, though thankfully not my company). No, the reason the RIAA is on the way out is because they fail to recognize a promotional opportunity even when it bites them on their bloated ass. If there are any representatives of podsafe music organizations out there, or podsafe artists (hint), now would be a great time to open up "Music you can legally dance to on YouTube" with a Creative Commons license of some kind - attribution/non-commercial, probably - and hit all of these kids up with comments on their pages letting them know the music is out there if they want to legally use it. The conditions would be standard - non-commercial, full attribution, etc. Don't you just love it when your enemies hand you opportunities like this? Thank you, RIAA! This, more than anything, is why the RIAA is on the way out the door. Not because they’re overzealous in enforcing copyright, or because their tactics are legally and ethically questionable - lots of professions fit that category (even mine, though thankfully not my company). No, the reason the RIAA is on the way out is because they fail to recognize a promotional opportunity even when it bites them on their bloated ass.

If there are any representatives of podsafe music organizations out there, or podsafe artists (hint), now would be a great time to open up “Music you can legally dance to on YouTube” with a Creative Commons license of some kind - attribution/non-commercial, probably - and hit all of these kids up with comments on their pages letting them know the music is out there if they want to legally use it. The conditions would be standard - non-commercial, full attribution, etc.

Don’t you just love it when your enemies hand you opportunities like this? Thank you, RIAA!

]]> By: Dan http://highorbitpodcast.com/2006/06/16/50/comment-page-1/#comment-377 Dan Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:57:20 +0000 http://highorbitpodcast.com/2006/06/16/50#comment-377 Thanks to podsafe music such as yours and others, the RIAA will become obsolete. Long live the Podsafe Army, Captain Ebel!!! Thanks to podsafe music such as yours and others, the RIAA will become obsolete. Long live the Podsafe Army, Captain Ebel!!!

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