The RIAA and "educating" college students
Notes Don Reisinger in The RIAA speaks--and it gets worse:
When asked why the RIAA is going after an easy target--college students--the response made me cringe: "College students have reached a stage in life when their music habits are crystallized," Duckworth said. "And their appreciation for intellectual property has not yet reached its full development.""their appreciation for intellectual property has not yet reached its full development". Wow. WE ARE THE BORG. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.Sadly, this statement tells you everything you need to know about the RIAA. Does this organization actually believe that people who have the right to vote and go to war don't have the ability to make sound decisions about intellectual property? Maybe it has nothing to do with lack of development and everything to do with an extreme distaste for the recording industry.
Comments (12)
TC Bell
I would just like to say that most of the music I download is unavailable in stores. I think the artist who made the record would prefer that people hear his music at all! Especially when the RIAA backed record companies tell him he isn't marketable enough and refuse to rerelease his album. I understand they are in this to make their money as the middle men who are specialized in bringing the music from the artist to the masses. Now the artist and (most importantly) the consumer has access to the internet. This is just an amazing example of the free market at work, no invisible hands here, just planned human action! Yet the RIAA is the PERFECT example of what a monopoly really is. They can't compete with the internet so they go D.C. and have them coercively level the playing field for them. This in turn does not stop said "downloaders" it just makes some subject to government searches and seizures of their personal property (i.e. personal computers, laptops). Just my two cents!
Published: January 14, 2008 11:58 PM
Blouge
The problem is not the RIAA. They are just shrewd entrepeneurial managers using the legal system to the best of their advantage.
Published: January 15, 2008 12:41 AM
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Published: January 15, 2008 1:41 AM
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Published: January 15, 2008 1:43 AM
ktibuk
I don't think this is about age.
Respecting private property is more of cultural thing. If private property is not respected in the society, if it is "OK to steal" the theft will be spread and colleges are mostly cultural enviroments that these "cool" trends flourish.
Published: January 15, 2008 1:46 AM
George Gaskell
I am reminded of the Vogons in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, who would strap unlucky victims into "Poetry Appreciation Chairs."
Their victims tied down from head to toe, they'd start the poetry reading:
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!
Actually, Vogon poetry makes about as much sense as calling an incorporeal pattern "property."
Published: January 15, 2008 8:43 AM
Matthew Graybosch
I thought that college students are paying RIAA member labels the exact value of their product: absolutely nothing. Why should anybody pay for the dubious privilege of hearing the latest by this year's American Idol winner? Or some boy band?
I'll pay to listen to real bands, like Iron Maiden, Iced Earth, Nightwish, the Blue Öyster Cult, etc. I won't pay for Kanye West, or Linkin Park. I won't even accept payment for listening to such garbage.
Published: January 15, 2008 9:28 AM
Inquisitor
Well said Matthew, and good taste in music. :P
Ktibuk, I think you're right. I am against IP laws, but I am not impressed in the least by students who shun property more generally who then extend this thinking to music. Their argumentation rarely stems from reasoned thinking, just puerile anti-propertarianism (the contradictions in their behaviour are laughable; just try taking their iPod.)
Published: January 15, 2008 11:57 AM
Jake
I just want to compliment Stephan on great, dare I say groundbreaking work on IP. I sincerely believe you are one of the best libertarian theoreticians out there.
Published: January 15, 2008 2:16 PM
maaku
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Thank you for the thought provoking work, Mr. Kinsella.
Published: January 15, 2008 3:48 PM
Regenbekleidung
Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more. So please keep up the great work. Greetings. Bye bye.
Published: January 24, 2008 8:28 AM
Tells
Hi Stephan,
thanks a lot for your very interesting posting, i live in germany and i had never heard before about the RIAA. Here we have the GEMA i think ist is the same.
Best regard from Stuttgart-
Sue
Published: May 4, 2008 3:51 AM