RIAA About to Transform? 217
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It has been reported for a while that the RIAA was suffering some cutbacks and dwindling support, but techdirt is reporting that the cuts may be even deeper than most originally suspected. Who knew suing potential customers would ruin your business? "I'm sure some will somehow 'blame piracy' for this turn of events, but it's hard to see how that's even remotely the issue. The real issue is that the RIAA has basically managed to run one of the dumbest, most self-defeating strategies over the last decade. Rather than helping major record labels adjust to the changing market, it continually, repeatedly and publicly destroyed its own reputation and the reputation of the labels — each time shrinking their potential market by blaming the very people they should have been working to turn into customers."
RIAA (Score:2, Funny)
TERRORIZE!!!
Will it be... (Score:5, Funny)
...a Z Transform, a Laplace Transform or a Fast Fourier Transform?
All I can say is... (Score:5, Funny)
I do, however, once RIAA is dead and buried, intend to dig them up once a year on the anniversary of their death just to make sure they're still dead.
Re:Slashdot broken? (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot broken?
With that low user ID, you should have figured this out a long time ago.
Re:Will it be... (Score:4, Funny)
New business for the RIAA? (Score:4, Funny)
The RIAA is going to get you (Score:3, Funny)
Did you pay a commission for that lyric?
So... Decepticons? (Score:5, Funny)
It's a transformer! (Score:5, Funny)
What, are they going to go from 'suck' to 'blow'?
Re:Will it be... (Score:4, Funny)
Ha, I beat you with my transformers reference by 2 minutes.
Decepticons lose again!
Re:In demand as witnesses? (Score:3, Funny)
No way! People willing to work for such an ethical and forward thinking organization would have more loyalty to each other.
Re:In demand as witnesses? (Score:5, Funny)
Then, let us all hope for the sake of the families involved that the MafiAAs do not make them mysteriously disappear.
"The RIAA has announced a new severance package . . ."
Transform into... COPYRIGHT MEGACRONYM! (Score:5, Funny)
Left arm: MPAA
Right arm: IFPI
Left leg: SPA
Right leg: BSA
Torso: RIAA
Head: DMCA
Combined: WTMGDL! (Way too many god damned lawyers)
Hmm, any other suggestions for the copyright megacronym? :)
Re:In demand as witnesses? (Score:3, Funny)
"The RIAA has announced a new severance package . . ."
I think its dubbed "Head and Shoulders"... er no that's a shampoo... "Head from Shoulders"!
Re:All I can say is... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:RIAA (Score:3, Funny)
TERRORIZE!!!
I think "EXTERMINATE!!!!!! EXTERMINATE!!!!!!" is more appropriate here.
Just throwing that out there.
Re:In demand as witnesses? (Score:5, Funny)
Well I would imagine the excess employees will be much in demand as witnesses.
We've always known when it comes to the RIAA there's more than meets the eye, but witnesses would truly help expose their deceptive cons.
Re:pronounceable (Score:4, Funny)
It is, but only with the second pair of cheeks.
Re:RIAA successful? (Score:4, Funny)
I dunno if I'd call their mission a complete failure...
Well I always admire an independent thinker who's willing to go out on a limb and espouse a thought that no one else agrees with.
You've certainly established your credentials.
Re:In demand as witnesses? (Score:2, Funny)
*facepalm* (Score:3, Funny)