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RIAA Claims File Sharers Are 'Undermining Humanitarian Efforts In Haiti'

21 pointsby philfover 15 years ago

6 comments

philkover 15 years ago
I'm not sure that these albums do much good for the humanitarian effort to begin with; people who buy the albums will feel that they've already done something to help and hence donate less through other channels. All I can really see it adding is overhead; it's more of a tool to promote artists and the RIAA than actually increase the amount of aid.
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barrkelover 15 years ago
I await the days when musicians indirectly related to RIAA donate money to NSPCC or similar children's charity, and then say P2P is partially responsible for child abuse.
bshepover 15 years ago
But wont anybody please think of the children????
sailormoonover 15 years ago
Files sharers deprive labels of income &#62; labels pay less tax to the USG &#62; USG cannot afford armour for soldiers &#62; troops die in Iraq of preventable equipment shortages<p>Voilà, file sharers are killing american soldiers overseas.<p>But wait, there's more. File sharers are killing american soldiers, but they're not a declared state army. Therefore they're non-soldier enemy combatants, who as we all know can be sent to Gitmo without trial! What are we waiting for?
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zackattackover 15 years ago
rhetorical imbeciles advertise altruism
sabatover 15 years ago
In World War II, the first file-sharers nearly cost the Allies the war. Every time a Jimmy Dorsey record was "loaned" (pirated) out to a fellow soldiers, Hitler won another battle.