The RIAA's website has a little more of a "tug-at-your-heartstrings" approach, describing how piracy affects the jobs of all those involved in the entertainment industry....that's right, even the little guys. I find it a little more personable than the MPAA's website - they even outline for you, very simply, how/what things are illegal. According to the "Piracy Online" section:
"Online piracy is the unauthorized uploading of a copyrighted sound recording and making it available to the public, or downloading a sound recording from an Internet site, even if the recording isn't resold. Online piracy can now also include certain uses of "streaming" technologies from the Internet. Because of the nature of the theft, the damage is not always easy to calculate but not hard to envision. Millions of dollars are at stake – not to mention our ability to invest in the next generation of music."
I can understand what the organization is arguing for, artists/musicians/etc. work very hard to produce their art and they should be compensated for it in the public market, but it seems to me that it's not necessarily the idea of paying people for content that's the issue, it's the practices that are carried out in enforcing that idea. This is exampled in the recent phenomena of musicians releasing their albums in a "name-your-price" format on their websites for their fans. This format, on average, has actually made more money than the traditional method of releasing it through a record label. Regardless of your opinion on this issue (or my opinion for that matter) it's important to know the law - and the RIAA can help:
Read about it here.
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