{"id":14572,"date":"2003-09-17T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-17T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/17\/orson-scott-card-recording-artists-on-file\/"},"modified":"2003-09-17T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-17T11:37:00","slug":"orson-scott-card-recording-artists-on-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/17\/orson-scott-card-recording-artists-on-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Orson Scott Card, Recording Artists On File Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hatrack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Orson Scott Card<\/a> weighs in with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ornery.org\/essays\/warwatch\/2003-09-07-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">refreshing view on copyrights, MP3s, and file sharing<\/a>.  Also, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/content\/news\/0903\/11rocked.html;COXnetJSessionID=1oFy456R3n2YiWFVoNG7brzEzava16u2UDtvuGc75hlB1IrnAWHy!1114151481?urac=n&amp;urvf=10637981946470.9226959034852114\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em> article<\/a> quotes several prominent recording artists that question the <acronym title=\"Recording Industry Association of America\">RIAA<\/acronym>&rsquo;s motives and tactics.  I&rsquo;m glad to hear that some of them have refused to stand by while the RIAA (further) ruins the music industry:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Grateful Dead&rsquo;s Bob Weir: &ldquo;They&rsquo;re protecting an archaic industry&hellip;They should turn their attention to new models.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>David Draiman of Disturbed: &ldquo;This is not rocket science&hellip;Instead of spending all this money litigating against kids who are the people they&rsquo;re trying to sell things to in the first place, they have to learn how to effectively use the Internet.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Chuck D of Public Enemy: &ldquo;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.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Moby: &ldquo;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.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>RIAA sucks. \ud83d\ude1b<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/09\/16\/1950205&amp;mode=thread&amp;tid=126&amp;tid=141&amp;tid=188&amp;tid=95\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/cagle.slate.msn.com\/news\/MusicSwappers\/main.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Slate<\/em><\/a> has five pages worth of political cartoons lampooning the recent RIAA law suits.  Pretty damn funny&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walk.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">J-Walk<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106379863767571079?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&rsquo;s motives and tactics. I&rsquo;m glad to hear that some of them have refused to stand by while the RIAA (further) ruins the music industry: Grateful &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/17\/orson-scott-card-recording-artists-on-file\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orson Scott Card, Recording Artists On File Sharing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}