The RIAA wants you to know that everyone loses with pirated products, so they’ve put together a fake news story and sent it out to TV stations around the country—maybe it will show up on your cash-strapped local news over the next few days, if you’re lucky. We’re torn, though, on posting this because it’s being leaked (promoted?) heavily by the video news release (VNR) company that produced it—we want you to scoff at it with us, but keep your bullshit “stealth marketing” sensors up.
Our favorite line is one of their warning signs that you might be buying a pirated product: “Compilation CDs that could only exist in the dreams of a music fan.” In other words, “A product you would actually want, that is equal in value to what we’re charging you for it.”
“RIAA Fake News!” [LiveLeak]
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=( I want back those precious moments of my time that the RIAA wasted with that piece of shit “news clip”. D:
@elislider: maybe atrociously high. =D
Would you steal a car if you could?
No, but if I could make an exact digital duplicate… well I’ll have to think about that one.
so artists want to stop their music going public?
first, that sounds really logical on their part. they wouldn’t want people to spread their name, that’s not why they’re in the business.
if artist don’t want people to make digital copies of their music, they shouldn’t produce multiple copies of their music. perform concerts at small concert venues and don’t let anyone record. no studios. if they release one album, they release one thousand.