RIAA and The Music Industry

Been reading alot of articles of the Nazi organization known as the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) This gestapo run business has been suing people left in right under the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) law that was passed in 1998. Under the DMCA law, the RIAA has been taking innocent people to court, suing them and taking excessive damages with the pretense of guilty until proven guilty. This zeal has mainly been seen in the press where many instances of people with little to no computer experience have received letters from the RIAA saying they must settle for thousands of dollars for alleged file sharing of music files. This whole process is bypassing the due process system in the courts, and when (from reading the news articles) people take the RIAA to court to defend themselves, they are often times, denied the right to present evidence and experts to defend themselves. The RIAA is in this for the money, nothing else, this is not to preserve the integrity of the digital works, cause the artists never see a penny. If you don't think the RIAA are nazis with no care for your privacy, they are actively trying to push into place real time monitoring of you computer system to report to them what files and content you have on your system to they can sue you accordingly should they find something they deem offensive.

What it all boils down to is the basics of the marketplace economics, the product tastes and products in the market (ie. music for example) are changing. There is no law or constitutional provision that states that the record companies have a right to exist and make money. The format in which people like to by music and from whom is changing overall. Why goto the mall and deal with some shmuck at a chain and pay $14 to $20 for a cd, when you can download the songs you really like at $.99 a pop from things like itunes or zune marketplace. This change in peoples buying habits means the record companies fat money business is in trouble, they cannot make the millions they used to in the marketplace anymore, times are changing and they are not.

Look around? on the way to work or the mall, do you see alot of horseshoe shops? Seems like along comes the automobile and now people drive to work vs. ride a horse, so the blacksmith business got changed radically. Many other businesses and products have come and gone over the years as technology and people change over time. Look at the big auto manufactures. What happens to the tire companies if we all start driving hover cars that run on hydrogen technology? With the cost of oil so high, what happens when cars don't require gas anymore? (for those that don't know, oil is used for many many other products around you like plastics) Does the oil industry start suing people for daring to not use the gas pump anymore?

It's time for the record companies and the legal system to give the DMCA a re-write and give the RIAA executives a kick in the rear and shut them down. If more scary tech comes out of these people, I guess it's time to go back to DOs 6.2 and Wordperfect to do all my computing needs.