RIAA Writes Its Own News For Local TV

December 21st, 2007 | Category: Tech Talk

I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Did your local news recently do a two-minute clip on music copyright infringement? whether so, you can thank the RIAA. They sent out a video press release to local news stations as part of their ‘holiday anti-piracy campaign.’ In it, they warn society that the best way to avoid counterfeit music

is to avoid ‘compilation CDs that could only exist in the dreams of a music fan’ and to trust their ears, considering illegally copied music usually sounds ‘atrocious.’ Instead, they boost watchers to buy ringtones for Christmas.”

Read more of that story at Slashdot.

Orginal post by Zonk

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