RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs

[Sirotnikov]

This is quite old news though:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43029

[VetLegion]

America's finest news source

[BlackCat]

Nah, I prefer those sources that dares to present facts with a tounge-in-cheek approach and a bit mind challenging such as Fox news.

[Kuciwalker]

The Onion: great newspaper, or the greatest newspaper?

I'm entirely serious.

[Richelieu]

I like this one much better http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40305

"God Outdoes Terrorists Yet Again"

[Urban Ranger]

This is even more evil

Speaking of RIAA I hope you people in the US are aware of this:

The worst bill you’ve never heard of

This will be a busy week in the House -- Congress goes into summer recess Friday, but not before considering the Section 115 Reform Act of 2006 (SIRA). Never heard of SIRA? That’s the way Big Copyright and their lackey’s want it, and it's bad news for you.

Simply put, SIRA fundamentally redefines copyright and fair use in the digital world. It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy. Even copies of songs that are cached in your computer's memory or buffered over a network would need yet another license. Once again, Big Copyright is looking for a way to double-dip into your wallet, extracting payment for the same content at multiple levels.

Today, so-called "incidental" copies don't need to be licensed; they're made in the process of doing *other* things, like listening to your MP3 library or plugging into a Net radio station. If you paid for the MP3 and the radio station is up-to-date with its bookkeeping, nobody should have to pay again, right? Not if SIRA becomes law. Out of the blue, copyright holders would have created an entire new market to charge for -- and sue over. Good for them. Bad for us.

Sounds just like fun.