Who needs PR when you have a Monopoly

RIAA is out of control. Two new facts have come to my attention:

RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004409.php

Lyrics Sites Next Targets For Content Groups?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1989235,00.asp

So it's not legal to make the music you've bought into mp3s and it's not legal to download lyrics for a song you've bought as either an mp3 or a CD.

If they could they would ban it from libraries. There is no doubt in my mind that if the idea of the library was concieved of right now, it illegal or sued by the RIAA. Hell they still might sue them.

This is an ugly sort of greed. They have sued 18,000 people for downloading music in the name of musicians, no musician has seen a cent of that money.

They can shit where they eat because they have a monopoly. Lyrics?! Are they going to sue me if I sing a song walking down the street? not today, but it's coming.


Today's Song of the Day is "Both Hands" by Ani DiFranco off her 1989 debut "Ani DiFranco."

Crazy Fact: Here is a musician that made a career for herself without a record company doing what a musician should do; performing non-stop, writing non-stop and recording non-stop. Is she worried about piracy? On her CDs it reads "Copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing." very very cool.

njoy