RIAA Bull

Do you know why the RIAA shut down Megaupload? 

Megaupload paid musicians to bring in traffic. 

This has nothing to do with piracy. 

Let me tell you, there is this a-hole-ish record company that claims my recordings belong to a heavy metal band. 

If you want to visit their crappy website, you can do so here:

http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/

I've been in only one band that actually gigged and it was a country music band. 

My recordings are strictly vocal...and pertain to self-help psychology. 

So, if anything, my recordings are heavy-mental.

Still Nuclear Blast thinks that it owns my voice and they take my work down every three months or so. 

I think they removed 30 out of my 810 recordings over the past year. 

They do that so they can inflate the incidence of piracy and make it look worse than it truly is.

For months, I wrote to them demanding that they put back my files before I nailed their arses with a counter-DMCA claim.  They ignored me.

Then I told them that I was a politician wanting to do away with the DMCA. 

I didn't tell them that I would be willing to get an anti-DMCA pin to wear at all my political events.  I have big boobs...the pin would get noticed.  When I really want to get things changed, I hire a bunch of big-breasted young models to run around in t-shirts.  That works like a charm. 

Filthy sarcasm is a good attention getter... 

I got an apology and a promise that it would never happen again.  They claimed they have a robot that sends out an automatic DMCA request for any file with certain common words in the title (such as success). 

I'm trying to motivate people to find their own success.  Of course I'm going to use that word!

Then the stupid clownish record company took down four more of my files.

YIKES!!

I did have an account with the website the Department of Justice (DOJ) shut down due to concerns about piracy.  This guilty without conviction thingy is constrained by the constitution. 

Who do we need to re-educate in the Obama administration?   

I do have another account with 4shared.com and anticipate it being shut-down by the DOJ any day.  It's on the RIAA hit list. 

http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-wants-to-shutter-torrent-sites-and-more-111116/

Truth be told, within hours of receiving a DMCA form, 4shared had my stuff taken down and threatened me.  They always remove content just on the accusation that it was infringing.  I will fight to the death in order to see that company protected.  Rest assured, I have shared this with every politician I know. 

And yes, fight to the death is not an exaggeration...I will.  I'm a redhead.

4shared is deleting files today, so I wonder if my blog readers, clients and fans are going to be unable to access their files all because some idiotic group of politician bribing aholes want to be little pills. 

If you want to sign a petition to get Obama to investigate former Senator Chris Dodd for bribing politicians to get them to vote for SOPA/PIPA, you can do so here:

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/investigate-chris-dodd-and-mpaa-bribery-after-he-publicly-admited-bribing-politicans-pass/DffX0YQv

That arrogant pin-head threatened to stop giving money to people who won't let him buy their vote.

-And-

Another company I had an account with will no longer offer its services to people in the US.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/fileserve-shutters-in-light-of-file-sharing-site-crackdown/67739

So, if I want to continue to bring my services to the public for free, to give it to the people who would get scammed by jerks that don't know what they are doing, or those who can't afford real information...I'm going to have to rent a server. 

I can't afford to do that and give away my inventory. 

Stupid government. 

Still, I wonder...

Is the RIAA trying to claim pirating is a big deal to protect the artists? 

Or are they doing that so they can shut down those websites that actually allow artists to make a dime or two? 

I betcha that is what they are after...choking off alternative income streams for musicians. 

What do you think? 

Those of us who have dabbled in the industry know that the music companies are the real thieves. 

Yes, my work has been stolen, repackaged and resold.  I've been lucky, though, the idiots that do that tend to keep my name on the files.  When they do that, I consider it advertising.  When they take my name off of the files, which I have suspected on a couple of occasions, they can't sell it. 

Do you know why?  Because my name is the branding.  I am the product. 

Having a moronic Internet marketer steal my stuff and sell it on EBay as a $5.00 compilation is far less of a hassle than having a music company rip my work off the web because I put a common word in the file...success...oooh, Nuclear Blast USA owns my freaky blog now.

Success...success...success...


Go ahead, make my day.  File that false DMCA take down notice now and I'll ship it off to all the papers I can.

No music company can claim copyright on a single word.  Sorry.  It doesn't work that way.  Maybe that Nuclear Blast blew out the CEO's brains...cuz he is failing to think clearly.  He ought to get control of the people who represent his company.

From my point of view, after being victimized time and time again by false DMCA claims, the pirating issue is not as bad as they are painting it out to be. 


Truth be told, I really dislike having my clients frustrated because they can't download a promised file because I put the word "success" in the title.

Greedy lil' porkers...aren't music executives just annoying as heck? 

No matter who you are or what you've done, if you're not a music exec., you're a-okay  in my book. 


Love ya,

S.