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Gizmodo has determined that March, 2007, will be the month of RIAA boycotting. They have sent forth two good ways to spend this month, buying eMusic MP3s and seeing artists live.
I present to you five more ways to hurt the RIAA in March:
5. Speak up your opinion
RIAA is hated and despised in geek community, and for a good reason. Add to the multitude of voices your own. Sign the Electronic Frontier Foundation petition. Speak up on forums, blogs and message boards. Perhaps they ignore voice of community; but community doesn’t.
4. Switch to public domain and creative commons music
There is plenty of good music licensed as public domain and especially Creative Commons (you can find plenty of CC-licensed music at Creative Commons website). Yes, this won’t help the artists, but that’s why this tip is only at #4. If Creative Commons will spread, RIAA will take very painful hit in the crotch.
3. Crack the DRMs
By participating in DRM-cracking community, you don’t do anything inherently illegal. If everybody will learn to evade DRM, it will become obsolete. Strip Devil of his tools, and then banish him.
2. Donate to your favorite artists
Use donations to help your favorite artists. This way, you’ll give them the full sum. Buying an album from RIAA album won’t help – out of your twenty bucks only one dollar (at most) will go to the musician.
1. Buy the indendent music
Finally, support independent label. Use RIAA Radar to find labels free from RIAA imprisonment and buy music from them.
Remember: if you won’t pay the RIAA, they will eventually dissolve. Help to bring down devil incarnate of modern America.
Praying for quick yet painful downfall of RIAA,
Heliobis.
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Thanks for this! I haven’t bought anything but independantly owned and sold music for the last year. The record industry not only rips off you the consumer, but it also rips off the artist in 95% of the cases.
Podcasters are banding together to flip the Record Industry the collective bird by promoting a band that the record industry threw away, that still plays great music. On March 22, 2007 we are encouraging everyone to buy the track ‘Mine Again’ by Black Lab. Its only $.99, and 50% of the proceeds are going to scholarship funds. For more info please visit http://bumrushthecharts.com . We are hoping to make history by proving to old big media that podcasters and their fans have power, and prove to them once and for all, that their time is over. We decided our own entertainment!
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