January 29, 2008

RIAA

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13 Responses to “RIAA”

  1. michael lee says:
    January 29, 2008 at 7:56 PM

    spot on!

  2. Dave Armstrong says:
    January 30, 2008 at 2:42 AM

    I’m selling it. I don’t own it, but I can get it for you if you want it. Do you want it? Done Deal. It’s yours. Think of me as your friend …

  3. John says:
    January 30, 2008 at 3:58 AM

    Buy a gui­tar. Make your own music.

  4. Hamish says:
    January 30, 2008 at 11:11 AM

    Heh. They are figh­ting a rear-guard action to try and keep the ine­vi­ta­ble to the last pos­si­ble minute, but guess what, it will not work. Good car­toon, gets the gestalt.

  5. C.C. Chapman says:
    January 30, 2008 at 3:36 PM

    HELL YES!
    Dead on and so so so true!

  6. Catherine says:
    January 30, 2008 at 4:45 PM

    What if the “seller” and “maker” are one and the same ? Hap­pier :)

  7. John Dodds says:
    January 31, 2008 at 1:44 AM

    Abso­lu­tely right but how do you square this with what I per­cei­ved to be your cri­ti­cism of the wri­ters’ strike some time back? Aren’t they makers too?

  8. hugh macleod says:
    January 31, 2008 at 10:45 AM

    John Dodds, I square this by the sim­ple fact that the peo­ple in the ecosys­tem the wri­ters [i.e. the “makers”] are stri­king against, are not the “sellers”, but in fact the “users”.
    Stu­dios buy screen­plays, not cinema-going mem­bers of the public.
    The “sellers” in this equa­tion are the agents, the lat­ter we’re in fact hea­ring very little from.
    Nice try ;-)

  9. Huw says:
    January 31, 2008 at 7:12 PM

    Espe­cially appro­priate for estate agents, who’ve always thought they’re more impor­tant than ever­yone else; parasites.

  10. Leona Laurie says:
    February 1, 2008 at 3:41 AM

    Exce­llent.

  11. Joel Falconer says:
    February 8, 2008 at 12:55 AM

    That’s fan­tas­tic! The best way of saying it I’ve heard yet.
    I know what you’re saying about the writer’s strike, but it still goes without saying that the net­works have done exactly what the RIAA have done: stop­ped thin­king about the makers and users.

  12. azul says:
    February 8, 2008 at 9:02 AM

    This is gold. LOL.

  13. Neomi Wats says:
    February 10, 2008 at 7:17 AM

    great words. peop­ple should print it on the back of their busi­ness cards on a regu­lar basis