If I was a recording act signed to an RIAA member, I would be running away real fast. What, did they recruit R. Kelly's publicity team?

The front page of today's Globe and Mail has below the hed "Twin bombs hit Isreal" this hed:
"Music industry hails $2,000 win over child".

At least Michael Jackson only had to fight allegations he molested children. The RIAA makes sure when they fuck kids they do it with lawyers.

It is a disgusting juxtaposition of the profoundly horrific and the profoundly vapid, and a bizarre perversion of priorities on the part of privileged fools.

it is time for eric to break out that sacred word of blogdom: assplow

Do AssPlow have a new album out?

Man, I used to love their indie stuff, but since they got signed to major, I don't know.

Mark is most assuredly correct - this is no time for pussyfooting or equivocating: suing a 12-year-old girl who lives with her mother in subsidized housing for hundreds of thousands of dollars, cowing them into parting with $2000 that isn't exactly laying loose around the house, then crowing about it to the press as if it were a glorious victory over a fearsome foe, is indeed the work of ASSPLOWS.

I can see a support group forming with R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, Gary Glitter and Cary Sherman.

"I was just doing it to the kids"

Yeah, they're young and ever so resilient, they probably won't even remember what happened to them, kind of like circumcision.

Does the gov't even work anymore? Where are they? It's become pretty obvious whose pulling the strings...

Has anyone heard what the net effects have been on Kazaa? Are there less people logging in? Less files available? Just curious.

I just remembered this week to shut it down on my mother's computer. I can't even imagine the surprise if she had gotten a sobpoena for unknowingly sharing files on her computer because of me.

the government is off in the corner getting, uh..."serviced" by aoltimewarner, clearchannel and ticketmaster.

File sharing is down since the RIAA campaign was announced in June

As far as I can remember, I've never once in my life downloaded a song from Napster, Kazaa, or any other P2P network. And yet I found that Kazaa Lite is running on my computer recently. Why? Young relatives. Amusing, those relatives actually own CDs for almost all of the soungs downloaded, but find that using Kazaa to retrieve them wherever they're visiting and manage/play them on the computer to be convenient.

They apparently set the settings so that they were sharing no files, but I still killed it when I found it. I knew turning the windows box over to them would be a mistake!

That's what really bugs me about this whole file sharing thing. Here you have millions of people who are paying for their own bandwidth to distribute your data for free!

They are using their own bandwidth, their own hardware, their own disc space to market and distribute _your_ product. And the first thing you do is attack a 12 year old girl.

Way to go. I hope your piss up in a brewery goes as well.

I really want to comment on Eric's reference to "circumcision," but it's been a long week and my wit seems to be taking a nap. Anybody?

My cousin works in a circumcision ward for $18 per hour plus tips.

Groan. Eric, you'll do anything to keep that #1 spot, won't you?

That's good money, but what if he has to take a cut?

Let me guess, is the competition cutthroat?

Any way you slice it, this will end badly. We might as well cut it off now.

YOu are SO wrong ... this is just the tip of the iceberg

Confidence is defined as cutting off the top before you even know how long it will be.

There's stiff competition to stay on the bleeding edge.

Isn't there some corollary to Godwins' law which is about dick jokes?

Cowper's postulate? The Epididymial deduction? Carruthers' theorem?

Great, now I have to come up with something succinct, witty and clever which combines the music business, hairy purple-veined penises, the futilitly of arguement and me.

Thanks a lot. I'll let you know when it gets down to the short strokes.

Or I'll come up with something.

Jim, I'm pretty sure that all of the items you mention, except maybe for you, are pretty will linked already. ;)

Sorry to sever the phallic ties in this thread but ... looks like a p2p trade group has gathered to pay the 2k off for that 12 year old girl.

Y'know what would be really great if if Mariah Carey paid less than 15 minutes of her income to pay Brianna's fine.

C'mon Mariah, think what a fuck you to Tommy that would be.

As well they should (pay her $2000) since the commercial P2P's are not without blame in this entire scenario: "We're just the conduit, don't kill the messenger, guns don't kill people, etc, etc."

Especially in this case, where the girl's mother claims she thought is was all good because she paid about $40 for the P2P client software.