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posted by janrinok on Sunday July 20 2014, @05:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-for-the-artists-but-for-their-own-pockets dept.

The RIAA have targeted non profit archival sites that have licensed music with a string of restrictions. From the article:

Earlier this week it was reported how the RIAA had decided to turn the licensing thumbscrews on a site offering decades-old radio archives for download. Now another archival site, one that pays thousands of dollars in license fees to BMI, ASCAP and SoundExchange yet makes not a cent, is now in the RIAA spotlight.

Around since 1996, ReelRadio is a service dedicated to streaming historical radio shows, specifically decades-old "aircheck" demo recordings which were often used to showcase radio announcers before being placed in the archives.

ReelRadio isn't some "rogue" site determined to avoid paying artists. The site does its bit by paying a proper license, but last week the RIAA decided that it needed to more strictly enforce its terms. Trouble is, those terms are so restrictive that not only will the site have to drastically reduce its user experience in order to comply, in some instances it may actually prove impossible to meet the terms.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @05:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @05:28AM (#71427)

    lame.
    i'm going to petition the riaa be taken down
    it seems to me they're practicing prior works developed under communist rule

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @06:16AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @06:16AM (#71435)

      ask your buddy obama for that change he promised you

      • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday July 20 2014, @06:33AM

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday July 20 2014, @06:33AM (#71440) Journal

        Well, I'm sure he's willing to give you a few coins. But I don't think that's sufficient to fight the RIAA.

        --
        The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @10:15AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @10:15AM (#71464)

        Never miss a chance to turn something into partisan bickering, right?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by BradTheGeek on Sunday July 20 2014, @11:51AM

    by BradTheGeek (450) on Sunday July 20 2014, @11:51AM (#71479)

    These companies are literally stealing our culture and history, while we sit and do next to nothing. This is what extended copyright and draconian DMCA laws produce.

    The politicians don't care, they're bought and paid for. Besides controlling the past us key to controlling the future.

    (Mobile post, please excuse typos)

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Sunday July 20 2014, @01:35PM

      by bzipitidoo (4388) on Sunday July 20 2014, @01:35PM (#71499) Journal

      We are doing something about it: piracy.

      ReelRadio's main problem is that they're trying to operate within the system, the system that the bullying RIAA gets to make up as they go along. If the RIAA doesn't feel like playing fair, there's little practical recourse. Sure, ReelRadio can sue, but the point of lawsuits these days is not who is right, it's who can afford to waste the most money on lawyers. Not starting a fight with the RIAA doesn't help when the RIAA is perfectly willing to start the fight.

      But the RIAA is learning that they can't play whack-a-mole for eternity. No matter how much they'd like to, they can't sue millions of Bit Torrent users for downloading a few songs.

      • (Score: 5, Informative) by Nerdfest on Sunday July 20 2014, @04:09PM

        by Nerdfest (80) on Sunday July 20 2014, @04:09PM (#71534)

        Pirating music they control is helping them, not hurting them. It effectively advertises the music for them to people who do not pirate. They way to fight them is to not give a cent to RIAA artists, and to spread the word to everyone you know. Get music from sites like Jamendo.com who have some *great* artists, or buy music from independent artists directly; people like Josh Woodward.

        Since I'm here, here's a couple of my favourites from Jamendo.com:

        Brad Sucks [jamendo.com]
        Jamie Rumley [jamendo.com]
        Heifervescent [jamendo.com]

        It's lighter stuff mostly, with the first two being Canadian. The last one is kind of Beatles-esque.

    • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday July 21 2014, @09:20AM

      by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Monday July 21 2014, @09:20AM (#71758) Journal

      Nothing we CAN do, short of move, because no way in hell will you ever compete with the infinite pockets of Disney. the only way "forever minus a single day" copyrights would end is if you managed to get every single family on the planet to stop buying Disney products to bleed their coffers....you got better odds of winning the powerball friend.

      --
      ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @03:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @03:56PM (#71529)

    ...They don't want you listening to old shit; They want you to buy new shit.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @06:57PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @06:57PM (#71577)

      That is the problem.

      Older people listen to music they grew up with.

      I grew up listening to MTV before they STOPPED
      playing music videos like they used to and
      offloaded that task to VH-1's oldies 'station'.

      Anyway, back then the music was produced to sell
      but enough of it sounded GREAT! :D Artists and
      bands back then had REAL TALENT and made MEMORABLE
      music. That is why people around my age isn't buying
      new music because it isn't as good as the old stuff.

      All the RIAA will accomplish with this ruling is drive
      such content and websites offering it underground where
      you can't find it with a search enginge or just
      have private offline 'sneakernets' and 'copy parties'
      to spread the old content around further 'under
      the radar'.

      • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday July 21 2014, @09:08AM

        by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Monday July 21 2014, @09:08AM (#71755) Journal

        [quote]All the RIAA will accomplish with this ruling is drive
        such content and websites offering it underground where
        you can't find it with a search enginge[/quote]

        But didn't you know that darknets are what pedophiles use? Haven't you been reading the tabloids? Therefore, it logically[1] follows that all darknet users are pedophiles and pedophiles, as we know, are even worse than terrrrists. That's why all darknet use will soon be made a gitmoable offence FYOS (TOTC). HAND.

        [1]politican logic

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 21 2014, @12:01PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 21 2014, @12:01PM (#71787)

        Anyway, back then the music was produced to sell
        but enough of it sounded GREAT! :D Artists and
        bands back then had REAL TALENT and made MEMORABLE
        music. That is why people around my age isn't buying
        new music because it isn't as good as the old stuff.

        I'm pretty sure that's also roughly what your parents said back then.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 21 2014, @02:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 21 2014, @02:48PM (#71823)

    Can't someone put all these music sites files as bittorrent?
    it would save them making sure the world can continue listen.
    (anyone knows of a music player with built-in bittorrent support?)