[ARTICLE] RIAA cowers in fear over massive album sale increases after Live 8 concert

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Excerpt from TheInquirer

For years, the RIAA has claimed that illegal downloads and file sharing is killing music. Those claims look pretty damned stupid in the face of a 1,300% increase in legitimate album sales.

What Live 8 proved beyond doubt is that if you write good songs and can actually play instruments rather than simply sampling a George Clinton bass line and droning on about hoes and other garden implements, people will slap their foreheads in amazement, exclaim "bugger me, that's really good," and nip down the shops to buy the album...

Bwahaha.

[TechZ]

or just buy it online, who wants to walk :P

[Radical Dreamer]

Screw the RIAA....I have not listened to or bought a single RIAA backed album since they started being all militant and sueing 12 year old girls

[inferno_gn]

Hi there,

Strange to see that Live 8 is completly free (such as getitng P2P MP3 files, whatever RIAA says) is killing music. Mmmm, free music is sort of a free ads, which may lead to sales.

Ju Leon...

[Ferrit]

I didnt buy cds before I prolly wont ever FM and internet radio works for me
But the RiAA is killing itself and its a pleasure to watch it happen.
There so dam greedy that they cant see the writing on the wall

[inferno_gn]

Hi there,

I don't think the RIAA will die off so quickly. Pretty much all DVD, CD, esepcially CD/DVD burners and discs, we all pay fees that goes to them, right? The RIAA is pretty much will be dead without those fees.

Ju Leon...

[nunob]

The RIAA also collects money from radio stations who play music. Data is collected from playlists then extrapilated and the radio stations pay a fee to the likes of Arista and BMG who in turn pay money to the artists, the composers, RIAA, and so on and so on. Dont expect to see the RIAA die off anytime soon with artists and labels supporting them.