RIAA Denies Hypocrisy in Royalties Dustup

Hairless ape writes "The RIAA is reacting to a story pointing out the group's hypocrisy in its attempts to have songwriter royalties lowered. The issue stems from attempts to get webcasters to pay fixed royalty rates. 'In short, the contention was that the RIAA wanted to pay a percentage of its revenue to songwriters as its profits have fallen, but pushed for a fixed per-stream when it came to earning money from webcasters.' The RIAA says that's not so, and that SoundExchange offered a similar model to webcasters. Either way, the rates sought by the two groups would have bankrupted many webcasters. 'Now you know; it wasn't about hypocrisy, but one of the seven deadly sins may still have been involved.'"

Deadly sins?

[charlesbakerharris]

Since when was hypocrisy one of the seven deadly sins?

Re:Deadly sins?

[bagboy]

I think he is referring to - gluttony.

Payola?

[Van Cutter Romney]

Sounds like Payola all over. Maybe we'll get Eliot Spitzer to prosecute RIAA again ... Oh, wait!

Re:Fourteen deadly sins

[192939495969798999]

Hear me! Oh, Hear me! All pay heed! The Lord, the Lord Jehovah has given unto you these fifteen (crash)...Oy! ten-- ten commandments, for all to obey!

News?

[Gat0r30y]

Unscrupulous organization denies blatant hypocrisy. Details at 11.

Re:Fourteen deadly sins

[MightyYar]

In that case everyone's going to hell!

Well, that's the whole point, isn't it? No one is without sin, so everyone must ask for God's forgiveness. Vendor lock-in.

I wonder if the alcohol that Christ made out of water counts as drugs or not? If not, I'd like to hear why alcohol is not a drug.

Re:Payola?

[ArhcAngel]

Maybe we'll get Eliot Spitzer to prosecute RIAA again

He's too busy working up his bid to run for president.

Hey! It worked for Bill.

Seven

[esocid]

1. Envy- of the artists and their fame.
2. Greed- self explanatory.
3. Gluttony- eating and boozing it up with all that cash from those royalties.
4. Lust- for control and power over the music industry.
5. Pride- in their "holier than thou" facade as guardians of truth and justice.
6. Rage- hm, I guess that one is just reserved for everyone who hates the living hell out of the RIAA.

Re:Why the painfully inane comments today?

[ohzero]

If you outlaw copyrighted webcasting by making it cost prohibitive, only outlaws who don't care about cost prohibitive copyrighted webcasting will webcast.

Re:Why the painfully inane comments today?

[Foobar of Borg]

I see nothing but off-topic trolls and insipid banter about deadly sins taken out of context from the description at the top of the page. Not a single comment on the actual article.

I hate to say this since you have a lower UID than I do but, You must be new here.

Re:Seven

[Hillgiant]

What? No Sloth? (you lazy bastard)

Re:Deadly sins?

[GaratNW]

I think slashdot needs a new positive (+1) rating.. Pedantic. Because.. here, it really is raised to an artform. :)