RIAA: Black Friday RIAA Protest & Boycott organization starting here - Keep tuned

[dmcowen674]

Keep an eye on this Post, ideas for a Black Friday RIAA protest & Boycott across the Country have come up from in the Politics & News RIAA Thread.

Plans to spread this across Forums and Websites across the Country and Media.

Thanks for the tremendous response everybody.

Many have PM'd me on this but I am unable to reply at the moment since the Anandtech subscription servers went down and there is no ETA on them coming back online.


Now more important than ever.

Many Civic Groups and Lawyers are flooded withe calls today, the onslaught on American Citizens by a Private Third Party Corporation using Federal Powers begins. A sad day indeed.

9-8-2003 RIAA Declares D-Day

Record Industry Sues Music File Swappers

The recording industry filed hundreds of lawsuits Monday against individual music lovers, accusing them of illegally downloading and sharing songs over the Internet

The industry in recent weeks also has served subpoenas on at least 10 universities in an effort to identify individual file-swappers.

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I'm with you in spirit, but I almost never buy CDs anyway.

Originally posted by: apoppin
See, the whole idea is SYMBOLIC - ONE day to peacully demonstrate in front of the WORLD media to EXPLAIN our position, to literally walk about protesting - at the major record chains, recording studios, etc. - with placards

It's a new "Tea Party" w/o the violence.

Hey WE'RE CONSUMERS . . . who is listening to US?
IF we don't do something NOW, we lose more freedoms . . . pretty soon the MPAA will also want another piece of you.

This is the main goal of the Protest. A show of a united support that the very citizens they are soliciting business from don't appreciate being called and treated as criminals and most importantly a wake up call to Politicians that giving third party Corporations Governmental powers above and beyond the Constitution will not be tolerated either.

 

[jfall]

/me is glad i'm in Canada

 

[Chaotic42]

I'm with you in spirit, but I almost never buy CDs anyway.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

I extremely doubted that I'd be buying a cd this Friday or the next one or the next one or the next one....anyways

 

[Electrode]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I'm with you in spirit, but I almost never buy CDs anyway.

 

[bandana163]

I don't buy too much American CDs anyway.

 

[apoppin]

You guys don't get it . . . if you APPROVE of the RIAA's strong-arm tactics against your fellow Americans - do NOTHING!

If you believe they are wrong, then STOP BUYING CDS FOR JUST ONE DAY!!!!

Do this on Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving to send the SOBs a MESSAGE.

This BOYCOTT is being organized as we type.

Do something for freedom. YOUR freedom.

 

[jpeyton]

Haha, I love this. Hit them on the biggest shopping day of the year.

 

[Analog]

should we download something that day instead?

 

[Danman]

Originally posted by: yellowfiero
should we download something that day instead?

Hahaha.....yes!

 

[0roo0roo]

thats right, stop buying cds AND STOP DOWNLOADING music.

just to be consistent.

since contemporary music "sucks" anyways, you won't be missing much.

 

[Staples]

I find these things funny. People complain that the RIAA doesn't have a right to be mad that you are stealing from them. How bought you give me a few dollars since no one has a right to be mad for getting money stolen from them.

 

[JetBlack69]

Originally posted by: Staples
I find these things funny. People complain that the RIAA doesn't have a right to be mad that you are stealing from them. How bought you give me a few dollars since no one has a right to be mad for getting money stolen from them.

I, for one, do not have any file sharing program installed, yet I do not like RIAA tactatics. I plan on boycotting CDs on Black Friday. I'm upset that the RIAA is blaming P2P Technology and feels that any P2P software is illegal. There goes most distributed computing projects. I download most game demos with BitTorrent, yet the RIAA wants that to be illegal too.

I'm all for the artist and producers and studio tech to recieve money. I would much rather buy a CD than an MP3, because with a CD I can make an MP3 if I want to at any quality I wish. I also believe that albums are like a book and only listening to 2 songs is like reading only 2 chapters of the book.

Just because people complain about the RIAA doesn't imply that they are stealing from them.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Staples
I find these things funny. People complain that the RIAA doesn't have a right to be mad that you are stealing from them. How bought you give me a few dollars since no one has a right to be mad for getting money stolen from them.

We are not talking about stealing - which is wrong.

However, two wrongs don't make a right. The METHODS the RIAA are using are fascist, UNdemocratic, BYpass privacy and fair-use laws, use politicians to erode our freedoms all because they are TOO LAZY TO CHANGE THEIR UNFAIR AND OUTDATED BUSINESS MODEL.

They NEED to be taken down a notch and used an an EXAMPLE to other MEGA business that FORGETS that WE THE PEOPLE are the reason they EXIST at all.

 

[apoppin]

Here's all the Info you need from Politics & news forum - it's long - see the first and last pages for the 'notes'..

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Your link is busted.

- M4H

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Your link is busted.

- M4H

Broken

and fixed there and HERE

 

[Kadarin]

I'm with you in spirit also.. The last CD I bought was about 6 months ago, from an artist that I learned about and grew to love by downloading their music on mp3.com.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Yes, it's "there".

BTW, I conducted a little experiment the other day.

I engaged PeerGuardian on 100/100 "Aggressiveness" and connected to K-Lite. My "sharing" was enabled, but the only file in there was the KPP setup file. Minimize to tray. No searching, no downloading, no nothing.

Within two hours, I'd gotten over 300 attempts by the RIAA, MPAA, United, and WB to access my share list.

- M4H

 

[apoppin]

See, the whole idea is SYMBOLIC - ONE day to peacully demonstrate in front of the WORLD media to EXPLAIN our position, to literally walk about protesting - at the major record chains, recording studios, etc. - with placards

It's a new "Tea Party" w/o the violence. Something like Ralph Nader did back in the '70s. Where have all the effective consumer advocates gone?
(gone to politics, everyone)
it's an old song,

Hey WE'RE CONSUMERS . . . who is listening to US?
IF we don't do something NOW, we lose more freedoms . . . pretty soon the MPAA will also want another piece of you.

We DO HAVE RIGHTS!!!!

 

[hdeck]

i didn't plan on buying a cd that day anyway

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: hdeck
i didn't plan on buying a cd that day anyway

Good start.

Now spread the word to everyone who does.

- M4H

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

So what, don't buy cds on black friday? No problem.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Electrode

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I'm with you in spirit, but I almost never buy CDs anyway.

Same here, except I never buy CDs anymore. I haven't downloaded anything in the past half year anyway, and when I did it wasn't any modern pop crap. In fact, I probably don't have my downloaded MP3s any more, because the quality sucked.

 

[Anubis]

sweet ill take part.

but ive never shopped then ayway so.....