The RIAA Killed Your Ringtones
RIAA has been a thug-life thrill killa for years now, but this one takes the cake. Do you know why Apple passed up their goal of user generated ring tones? That’s right, the ever evil RIAA made them. I am so sick of having to hear about and deal with the RIAA / MPAA bullshit, aren’t you? They should take a good hard look at digital media trends and get with the times already. Sadly, that probably won’t happen any time soon. Definitely read those two intelligent links on the RIAA and ringtones - you’ll learn something new.
Clearly, the record companies jumped on ringtones as a whole of stack of potential profits that could not be allowed to go without remuneration. Apple makes very little from sales of music in iTunes; the vast majority of revenues are funneled back to the record companies, which then devise how to avoid paying their talent and keep as much as they can.
I’ve ranted and raved about the RIAA so often on so many of my blogs that I feel like I’m repeating myself to write it all over again. Don’t worry, I still believe in fighting the good fight! I just don’t want to bore you with repetition. That said, you can read my previous rants thoughts on the RIAA at the following links:
How Do You Find New Music In An RIAA Thug Age?
Arrrr Ye Mateys, Do Ye Have Stolen Music?
FSF Calling Steve Jobs To Account For His Words.
MPAA Tries On RIAA Steel Toed Boots.
Prince: Marketing Genius And RIAA Defeater.
Bush’s Daughters And RIAA Copyright.
Annoying Future: RIAA Schooled By Judge.
Harvard Encouraged To Stand Up To RIAA.
End Of Boycott RIAA Month, Not End Of Fight.
Score One Digital Radio, Zero RIAA.
Television Melding With Internet.
Now They Are Dragging Out The It’s For The Children Chestnut.
The Reasons Behind The Reason.
OK. I just realized how much I’ve written about this topic. There are about 100 more RIAA posts on my various blogs. 
Just go to any of them and type in RIAA, it seems, and you’ll get a gazillion jillion hits.
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September 19th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Nightmare. But there are some GREAT posts linked here.