Firering401 wrote:
Duke Juker wrote:
But how would you know if you hate them if you didn't know who they were or what they do?
I know they sue 12 year olds for alleged copyright infringement, and nearly every artist I know (in the real world) thinks they are scum. I know they are pressuring google to censor their search results. I know they are trying to push (ineffective) censorship bills through their U.S congress via their lobby groups.
The other problem if I'm not mistaken is that they go through record companies, not the artists themselves. Record companies are very strict about copyright and RIAA reflects that as a result. Censorship is a grey area. Again, I don't know much about it myself. What I do know is that most artists are attached to a label, and what the recording company says goes. That's probably more of a problem than the RIAA. If more artists were independent, the RIAA might be less of an issue.