Everyone who listens to music needs to READ THIS!

[GReedDiamond]

69. You are using false analogies to try and pathetically cover up your...

...lack of ethics, morality, and lack of concern for economic justice.

If you copy and redistribute MY music, not the RIAA's, you are violating ME, not the RIAA. I could care less about the fucking-piece-of-shit RIAA, and I am typing my own words here, not theirs, so fuck that.

Your inability to recognize &quot h)ow much work and effort goes into the creation of a work..," as part of the import of copyright protection, indicates that you have zero respect for the intellectual, physical, technical and monetary effort it takes to compose, arrange, engineer and produce original music, not to mention the passion and sacrifices that most independent artists, such as myself, must make in order to do what we do.

You also do not have a clue about what you're talking about:

When I play a CD in my shop that my customers can hear, I'm also technically infringing copyright these days and owe the record companies money. I daresay that isn't intuitively fair or obvious to anyone, because it's a new state of affairs in a world of expanding copyright.

False. First of all, what you are suggesting in this scenario is "regulated" by artists' rights organizations such as ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, not the record labels. Second, I am not aware of those organizations actively pursuing businesses playing music in their shops to the point where it is relevant to the issue at hand in the OP (because it isn't).

If you are using prerecorded copyright protected/published music in, say, a restaurant or boutique you operate, you may be liable for paying royalties, but they go to the publishing company, not the record company. In my case, that would be me, because I have my own BMI affiliated music publishing company. So, what you are saying, you do not want to pay the artist who holds the rights to copyrights and publishing, making you a double-screwer of the artist.

In my opinion, you can take your rationalizations for copyright theft, and shove em where they belong, which would be a dark, foul smelling place right where you are.

I am through with you.

Have a nice life stealing stuff from who or whatever you feel like.