Author Orson Scott Card weighs in with his refreshing view on copyrights, MP3s, and file sharing. Also, this Atlanta Journal-Constitution article quotes several prominent recording artists that question the RIAA’s motives and tactics. I’m glad to hear that some of them have refused to stand by while the RIAA (further) ruins the music industry:
- Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir: “They’re protecting an archaic industry…They should turn their attention to new models.”
- David Draiman of Disturbed: “This is not rocket science…Instead of spending all this money litigating against kids who are the people they’re trying to sell things to in the first place, they have to learn how to effectively use the Internet.”
- Chuck D of Public Enemy: “Lawsuits on 12-year-old kids for downloading music, duping a mother into paying a $2,000 settlement for her kid? Those scare tactics are pure Gestapo.”
- Moby: “File sharing is a reality, and it would seem that the labels would do well to learn how to incorporate it into their business models somehow. Record companies suing 12-year-old girls for file sharing is kind of like horse-and-buggy operators suing Henry Ford.”
RIAA sucks. 😛
Update: Slate has five pages worth of political cartoons lampooning the recent RIAA law suits. Pretty damn funny…
