Open Letter to the RIAA
Saturday August 3, 2002 – 2:28 amI’m an indie recording artist. I run my own website, and I used to have three online radio stations streaming 24 hours a day. Now I have NONE thanks to your efforts to make music illegal (or financially impossible) for us to broadcast.
I object to everything you’ve done to prevent people from sharing their music with others. You’re in fact killing all music and creativity everywhere you go. I think you’re monsters, and it makes me ashamed to be a musician when there are greedy pigs like you representing us.
August 3rd, 2002 at 9:06 pm
here..here!! Music sharing has really been a fantastic marketing and creative tool for indie musicians. Without it I never would have heard about all the music I now listen to. AND I have purchased more cds in the last 4 years than ever because I am able to get turned on to a musician’s entire body of work, not just one song that the radio plays over and over. AND music sharing has helped my girlfriend learn jazz tunes for her own performances…the industry better change or get out of the way because too many of us have found sharing very useful and important.
August 4th, 2002 at 3:13 am
Amen brother. Hey this is totally off the subject, but I hope y’all don’t mind if I go through and munge all the e-mail addresses listed in the comments people have posted here. I’m really worried that since I’ve given you a slot to leave your e-mail, that means you’ll all be getting more spam in the future. Spiders could come through this site anytime and harvest all addresses; that’s something I would have no control over. So… I’m going to screw them all up, but in a way that humans can decipher. :-)