Hey, you gotta start somewhere.
The RIAA recently declared that taking a CD you bought and transferring the music to your iPod is ILLEGAL
In response, Brainwashed.com has issued a statement and a petition to stop the RIAA before they can achieve their goal of complete regulation of your music listening behavior.
Grievances include:
The mass number of lawsuits against music consumers and their families, a huge portion of offenders by the way are underage, completely disregarding the age of consent.
Copyprotection schemes that do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to stop internet piracy but do everything to punish customers who have the right to get what they pay for.
The tyranny that gives the RIAA the ability to decide what music YOU should be listening to via the criminal 'payola' scandal.
The all-out assualt against the hip-hop mix tape community. Musicians once taking part in a time-honored tradition throughout the past decades are now victims of raids and arrests.
The only great tradegy of our time is the inability for people to get mad.
The RIAA serves no useful purpose in the music production industry and only works to extort money from artists, record labels, and the very consumers they lash out against. Technology, independent artists, and the general ability to sell music outside of the system threatens their desire to push their profit margins beyond their expectations and they will not stand for it. They will do anything in their power to stop us and all we have to do is show through our strength in numbers that they will not succeed.
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