“Letters have poured in following the RIAA’s disclosure that it planned to round up and sue thousands of our friends and children. The complaints hit on the RIAA’s hubris in going after its most active and prized customers via litigation.” Read it here.
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Anonymous 07.06.03 at 5:07 am
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 14th, 2003
The People for Ethical Pricing of Music hereby announce a full and complete
boycott of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) starting
July 1, 2003 and ending August 30th, 2003.
We call for a boycott of RIAA due to their complete disregard of RIAA’s
consumers, illegal price fixing among it’s members (Universal Music and
Video Distribution, Sony Corp. of America, Time-Warner Inc., EMI Music
Distribution and Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG)), and RIAA’s war against
those trading music on Peer to Peer networks.
RIAA has continuously and repeatedly disregarded the plea of RIAA’s
consumers to reduce pricing of music and to offer better quality content.
The largest members of RIAA, and some music retailers have settled a 142
million dollar class action lawsuit against them for price fixing. “The FTC
estimates that U.S. consumers may have paid as much as $480 million more
than they should have for CDs and other music because of these policies”,
stated FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky.
In settling the suit, the music industry simply wanted the case to go away.
Music executives said the legal costs of the case didn’t make it worth
fighting for, it’s a conspicuous cop-out considering that legal fees never
stopped them from going to absurd lengths to win their battles against
Napster, MP3.com, Kazaa and others.
The latest blow to consumers comes in the wake of a threat by RIAA to file
suit against the users of decentralized peer to peer networks. Instead of
trying to work with it’s consumers, most of which can not afford the prices
set by the music industry, RIAA and the major music labels have decided to
sue
While we completely believe that the music labels and artist should benefit
from their work, the People for Ethical Pricing of Music ask the people
around the world to boycott all Music labels and artists belonging to RIAA
from July 1, 2003 to August 30th, 2003. The People for Ethical Pricing of
Music condones capitalism, not greed!
Further Information:
http://www.riaa.com/news/newsletter/062503.asp
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/05/cdpres.htm
http://www.forbes.com/2002/10/01/1001music.html
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/
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No-senators-son 09.09.03 at 1:53 pm
The record industry has grown fat. To them the world revolves around the
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