I made my decision back in June 2003, not to download, upload, or buy, RIAA member affiliated songs. I've kept that promise to myself. I haven't completely quit going to movies, and thus, haven't completely boycotted the MPAA....but, I haven't joined a boycott-mpaa.com website :).

But, I know not everyone is doing a total boycott (no uploading, downloading, or buying). and wondered what the level of participation is for our members.

Are you or do you:

a) Avoiding all RIAA related music by not uploading, downloading, or purchasing from any source? (yes, even Russia..lol )
b) Just using P2P to freely upload and download RIAA affiliated songs.
c) Just occasionally buying one or two CDs from RIAA affiliated labels.
d) b and c
e) Buy RIAA affiliated CDs all the time- I just love 'em.
f) I love the RIAA. I buy RIAA t-shirts and caps and mugs, and
even send in contributions.
g) I am Cary Sue and I will sue you all :).

In advance, this survey isn't scientific, and please be honest if you respond.
While there is a tendency to express solidarity and say you are not buying any,
I really wanted to find out how closely to a total boycott you are proceeding
with today.

Thanks for your attention, and if you respond, for your participation.

~CodeWarrior

Hey what u mean bout russia yo!?
I get all my games from my home country!!!!

A

I hate everything on the radio, so why would I start?

A

I hate everything on the radio, so why would I start?

The last new cd I purchased was for my daughter 2 years ago at Christmas, since then I haven't given the riaa a red cent although I have bought a few used cds at local pawn shops.

It's been more than a year since I treated the old lady to a movie. I don't know which bothers her more, no movies or me calling her old lady.

I never download anything. never. ever. not even windows updates or virus updates. (unless there's a song that I really want).

ok maybe I could be a little more stiff on the downloading but I don't give them any money. none.

and if I could navigate those Russian sites my collection might grow somewhat but then just like Cantido I don't really like or listen to the radio that much so I wouldn't by the current clear channel crap anyway.

i havent purchased a disc in over 3 year.

I'll be damned if I intentionally give them one cent.

oh yeah, having said that, I did buy a few cds when I was in Mexico a while back but I'm pretty certain the riaa didn't get anything out of that

Pretty much A.

If I do find a tune by RIAA types I do like I did when I was in High School. Find a friend who has it. How my friends get it well, most of the time they download them or get them from a friend....

Of course I'm sure they (RIAA) will say that is illegal and should thus fine every human who has ever owned a system that would allow recording of tapes, records, CDs, or reel to reel.

I actually downloaded a track from Heart so I could learn the keyboard part ("Treat Me Well" -- Electric Gypsy at DMusic). I threw it away when I was done.

But I have never heard a song by Outkast

I've been visiting this site since September, 2003.
I have purchased only one cd since then for my daughter - No Doubt - The Singles.
She purchased the second cd by Michele Branch.
That's it...No more downloading.
And I'm a crazy woman at family get-togethers talking about the RIAA, corporations,
lobbyists, copyright laws, DRM, etc,
My daughter did a research paper on the RIAA and their assault on the American
consumer.
I ignore all e-mail from BMG now.
Over the years I've replaced much of my vinyl collection with greatists hits cd's of my favorite artists.
My daughter's friends copy their cd's for her. There is a lot more of that going on now.
I'm just so glad that the "boy bands" are gone... So the answer is "c".

E, F, and G! (actually, since I'mnt both Mr. Sherman and Bainwol, i get E and F free, no questions asked.)

regarding G, we're not suing you guys... because as you claim Code, we're not after people who are boycotting RIAA totally. Your people want to avoid the RIAA as much as possible; that's good. I'm all for that. However, it's the boycott-RIAA people WHO want to distribute and transmit our copyrighted music freely without paying respect to the intellectual property that we're trying to preserve.

Also, code, we have our hands tied up with our fights against kazaa, morpheus, and others, as well as our John Doe lawsuits; we have to wait for judge to allow us to get the names of these John Doe's from their ISPs; plus we are trying to do everything that's possible to negotiate with other countries to end the distribution of riaa-copyrighted material and end the substantial noninfringing uses. I'm sad to say that the RIAA applauded the conclusion of the recent US-Australia Free Trade Agreement. But, i am quite surprised with the ARIA's investigation into kazaa, to determine if they have any type of centralized control of their organization.

finally, to Cantido, pleze buy non-riaa music. thanks

one last thing, it is kazaa and other p2p's that make my business model of buying and selling "used cds" worthless

A
I LISTEN TOO 3 OR 4 US BANDS NONE OF WHICH ARE RIAA AFILIATED I DO HOWEVER LISTEN TO JAPANESE POP ALTHOUGH I STILL DONT BUY THE CDS BECAUSE IT WOULD COST ME 50$ A CD ALTHOUGH ACATIONALY I FIND ONE THAT IS RESONABLE AND WILL BUY IT

As I have said before, most of my musical tastes are considered obscure, not sure why though - probably due to the fact they are 1 hit wonders from the 20's forward.

So, yes, I download the music. Mostly the stuff I have purchased in the last 40 years since you can't get a good quality 8 track anymore, cassettes suck, and a turntable is well, a turntable.

I have downloaded songs that I didn't own previously as well, but not many - 100-150 or so. I would gladly pay for them actually if I could get them on CDs.

I still buy used discs and rip em, then sell them back to the used cd store. No movies, too expensive and US made movies tend to suck really bad. I have a relative that lives in China and I get a lot of foreign movie CDs from them. Rarely any television other than news, formula one, and some pacific rim shows I get on my satellite.

(b) and (c), but only Beatles songs and Let It Be Naked. Oh wait, and Outkast. And porn (does that count?)

A) Since CDs are going to be obsolete in a few years I'm trying to sell all of mine except for the few bands I still listen to, all independent. I have not bought a RIAA backed cd for a little over a year. Their lawsuits targeting children and the elderly killed a lot of my interest in music. Buying a cd isn't fun any more so the RIAA can keep them for themselves.

"I am Cary Sue and I will sue you all "

LOL!!!

"But I have never heard a song by Outkast"

That's too bad.

I do not believe in boycotting artists just because they are with a major. However, actively boycott purchasing their products through the major distribution network.

I have not bought a cd or downloaded a CD from any label that belongs to the RIAA in 3 years. But I must say I buy a butt load of dvds every year. sorry What can I say I love movies. That and for around 15 bucks a movie I get a hell of alot more stuff for my money. But I do listen to a local College Radio station in the mornings. They play plenty of indie music and some nice techno. Screw the riaa and all it's members. The artists that belong to the RIAA will wise up someday. Than just maybe I will buy something from the bands I use to listen to. Now I did have one idea for them. I just bought a new Techno CD from Paul Van Dyk (which might belong to a Riaa Label not sure on that yet) but not only did I get a CD full of good music it also came with a DVD of all the music in 5.1 sound and video format. That is something I might buy as well.



My thoughts on it nothing more

Mostly A.

Occassionally B.

Never C or below.

oops I would have to say


A

Sorry code forgot it was a survey

b and c but I rarely as in years apart buy a cd. its all mostly garbage that I want to return but cant.

i can't remember the last time i bought a cd and i tell my friends not to buy cds i wear the boycott-riaa shirt that i bought and i download music all day long.

so

b.

DIE riaa DIE

I have purchased but one RIAA-affiliated CD at retail in the past year: Let It Be Naked. And I donated that to the library. I hope I curb a few sales that way. The library would probably have purchased it anyway, so it really is no loss for the anti-riaa cause.

I do purchase music through record clubs like BMG and Columbia House. These are partly owned by the music labels, but the way I use these clubs, with very careful planning of orders so that I get massive numbers of free discs through special offers, I cannot imagine that the industry is making more than the tiniest of profits on my account, if at all. On average I probably pay about $4 per CD, including shipping. If they can make money on that amount, well, they are welcome to the pittance.

So, I guess you'd say I'm doing a modified boycott. I'm checking out a lot more CDs from the library than I used to, that is for sure. I don't use peer-to-peer. I take advantage of many free downloads at artists' individual websites, and even amazon.com has some interesting tracks for free download.

My friends and I share a lot of music between ourselves. I feel we are trying to do our part to refrain from supporting this evil industry.

I do all of the above. I have been here since August when I was lured in by an article, and I haven't looked back since.

It's actually quite sad that a lot f these people don't see the point of the boycott. We've discussed this before. You don't buy their products. You don't download or upload their products. This way the RIAA won't have any way to claim it's hurting their business. If there's no buying, but also no downloading or uploading of their stuff, then we can win. They'll be laughed out of existence like the big joke that they are.

I haven't downloaded anything, and haven't purchased a CD since 2002 or early 2003.

Damn, I should have read the options. I do not do all of the above. That's impossible and contradictory. I will say:

a

Damn, I'm stupid for not fully reading the options and understanding before I answered...

b, unless my 14000 songs say otherwise.

a) Avoiding all RIAA related music by not uploading, downloading, or purchasing from any source? (yes, even Russia..lol )
Check....

b) Just using P2P to freely upload and download RIAA affiliated songs.
Not a RIAA affiliated song on my computer.....

c) Just occasionally buying one or two CDs from RIAA affiliated labels.
My credit card has better things to do....

d) b and c
Why donjablome, RIAA yer nothin but a jabronee....

e) Buy RIAA affiliated CDs all the time- I just love 'em.
I had a dream last night that I got to through cary sue off a cliff and listen to him scream on the way down....

f) I love the RIAA. I buy RIAA t-shirts and caps and mugs, and
even send in contributions.
I tried this but my church got mad because I kept walking in on sunday and the flower were rotting around me and the birds were dropping from the sky. People became ill with my presence and the holy water began to boil. So I had to take the RIAA shirt off.....

g) I am Cary Sue and I will sue you all .
Just 5 minutes with him, his own mother wont recognize him.

A, for the most part.

Has the RIAA made it illegal to listen to a CD with a friend yet? That might be considered making a mental copy.

I do not buy or download RIAA crud. Remember, they said P2P is for porn and they are the main supplier of said porn. As for the major artists, they have made it abundantly clear they are going to stick by the RIAA. Screw 'em. Forever. Not another dime to Elton John, Shrill Crowe(intentional mispelling) or Norah Jones among others.

After I was banned from Napster for being an alleged infringer, I broke my only Metallica CD in half and have not purchased another CD since.

I'm still pissed off. I hate you Lars, you son of a bitch.

I still go to movies because the MPAA has done little to piss me off. Plus they have the occasional quality product at a relatively affordable price (hey, 2 hour movie for 8 bucks or a 45 minute cd for 20?)

i havent bought as cd since i learned of the boycott. i dont download riaa music if i know it although i dont spend much time researching if it is or not im more into blues and dont like any of the top 40 crap anyway. i download movies 1000+ and go see the ones i like after previewing them. i try to tell people i know whats going on with the industry and convince them not to purchase anything from the riaa until they stop trying to control the music . so ummmm A & 1/2 lol

b and c, if I can't find what I want on p2p then I'll (gulp!) buy. But I haven't bought a CD in almost a year.

I mean to remove my RIAA files from my share directory, but I'm not sure which, as it may be my whole library, and in that case, I would be branded a leach. I love music, especially old music (pre 90's) and I can't help it if the music I love is RIAA. But at least I'm not putting money in their pockets

G, in a way.

I wouldn't say I am Cary Sherman, rather he is me, or will be soon.

The best thing about being me, is that there's so many of me.

But seriously, b and c, mainly b, cos there's benn nothin but shite out over here.

I remember the night boycott-RIAA was born. I went over to Bill Evans (was my web master at the time). I was up- dating some stuff on my site. But as it turned out this was not a good night to do it. Bill was pumped up and was saying something like, “I’m not going to let them get away with it, and I’m not”. I said, “What Bill?” He then told me he was going to be a bit busy. It was like he was hooked into a 220 line and was off.
Well that went on for about a week.
What can one person do to change the world? sometimes a lot.
Still Pickin’
Bill Hudson

Are Ya Boycottin' ? Personally, YUP!

ilikethissite -- "our copyrighted music"??

OUR???

Did you write it? Did you record it? They're not your damn copyrights.

ilikethissite:
"But, i am quite surprised with the ARIA's investigation into kazaa, to determine if they have any type of centralized control of their organization."

It's quite well known that they have a DECENTRALIZED server. It's quite well known that nobody like them has had a CENTRALIZED server since Napster...

A.

I haven't purchased any RIAA affiliated music since I joined the site, and shortly after that I stopped dling and deleted all copies of RIAA affiliated music I had. I was cleaning my room this past weekend and found a few dusty old metallica cd's(yeah, I know a little a late) so I snapped them and tossed 'em out.

d

I download only - no sharing - I'm only after songs from 1950 to 1979 - none of that bullshit they play now.

I will only buy if I can't find it on P2P, or if the copy of what I get on P2P is crap no matter whose machine I'm downloading it from I then convert the tape or CD into MP3, and then I donate it to my public library, that way everyone else can take a hit on it for free.

Mostly a.

Rarely use p2p.
Buying lots of indie.
Been buying used for nearly 17 years
Using riaaradar before purchasing new (except my recent quandry with 4AD)

Mostly A and rarely B.

I had a relapse during the holidays and did a bad thing. I bought some RIAA CD's. Since then I have returned to my boycott. I had been boycotting for most of the year before then too.

I will NEVER pay for a RIAA download until they decide to stop the illegal practice of price fixing. I do not like the per track model they insist on using. 99cents per track for a WMA file with DRM is outrageous, and I will NEVER support it.

I used to download on P2P to obtain songs I had on vinyl, but not on CD. I was able to get most of what I wanted BEFORE the RIAA began suing individuals. Since then, I don't waste my time. I have plenty of music to explore in my existing collection. I also plan on exploring what independent labels may have to offer.

@ Bill Hudson "It was like he was hooked into a 220" How did you know my birthday?!!!!! I've experienced so many feelings over what is going on and has already gone down in our country, I cannot even begin to explain my feelings but I will try. I thought the veins in my brain were going to explode when I heard the RIAA sued the little twelve year old honor student girl already living in the ghetto for thousands... I thought... how dare they get away with this and attack our children but they get did... I thought the same thing when the cops burst in our home back in 1992 and gunned my husband down killing him in our own living room at 8:30 in the morning for nothing! Then they got on my phone talking and I just happened to have a phone recorder plugged in they did not know was going... when they called in to report to narcotics! Narcotics! This GOVERNMENT IS SO CORRUPT and JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING IS SCENSORED! I NEVER read one NOT ONE completely accurate article of what happened at my house! THAT's what started me doing POLITICAL MUSIC in 1992... PROTESTING #1.MURDER! CORRUPTION! THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR CONSTITUTION! LOSS OF OUR RIGHTS! THE LEGAL TOXIC CANCER CAUSING FOOD POISONS PERMITTED BY THE FOOD AND DRUG AGENCY! IMPRISONING A GENERATION & BUILDING MORE PRISONS THAN HITLER EVER DREAMED OF...THE I.R.S. OH MY GOD!!!!!! AND MORE... Geez... I became obsessed with this "CONSPIRACY COCKTAIL :CD: and for ten years... everytime I got a little money I would go add another track or something until it became my musical thesis on life in America. Gosh, I think I got a little off topic... I managed to leave the RIAA out of my songs but is why I started my own Record Company and produced my album but I did donate as much as I could a thousand dollars to help the boycott to stop any more children from being raided by the real terrorists! We don't need our children terrorized!!!!!! Yes, I recently purchased a hundred 's of MY OWN to DISTRIBUTE to THE COLLEGES BECAUSE I BELIEVE THE EDUCATION IT IS GOING TO GIVE THE STUDENTS COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE TAUGHT AT HARVARD! I HOPE IT GOES ON ALL THEIR RADIO STATIONS BEFORE THEY ALL GET SHUT DOWN!BEAURORATS LOOK UP IN THE SKY... THE EAGLE IS LANDING!!! WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR BULLSHIT!
Yeah, I have a journal too... HAVE A GREAT ONE!

Used to be B and C, since their sue 'em all campaign, it's been reduced to B. I'm not paying them one damn penny in any currency

A

Just bought The Misfits Box Set - RIAA Radar deems this SAFE.

I own some RIAA label CD's (mostly metal) - but none bought since I started following this site last fall.

No P2P any longer - I am not interested in inferior sound quality, whether it is free or not.

Buy lots of underground heavy metal (Doom-Black-Death) mostly from European (and some USA) indie labels that the RIAA would never consider accepting as members.

Some of it may be used - it is hard to tell, in some cases - most European labels do not shrink wrap their releases - to avoid un-necessary waste.

Buy used at local CD shop when possible.

Shocked to find that Rotten Records release of Goatwhore - "Funeral Dirge for the Rotting Sun" was (lamely) copy protected (but RIAA Radar SAFE). A piece of black tape, Mac OS 9 & iTunes 3.0 made this rip a snap.

A

I believe that the stuff the RIAA puts out is trash anyway. The only reason I listen to it on the radio/web is to keep me awake. However, I have strayed away from going to Wal-Mart and purchasing a (sometimes censored) CD. The main thing that the RIAA companies need to realize is that just because people vote for idiots on American Idol does not mean the music would be heavily popular. Besides, the AI audience is only a small portion of the population. I rarely watch it, because I hate hearing out-of-tune losers and Simon's stupid remarks. Independent labels should bond together and form the IRAA (Independent Recording Association of America) and stomp out the RIAA once and for all.

A for the most part. However I did read your article about musicrebellion.com and I tried it out. 3.50 for a CD was ok for me to I plopped down 20 dollars to check it out. All and all is wasn't to bad. However they went back up to their real price and that is crazy. It has been about 2 years since I bought a CD (with the exception of trying musicrebellion) and I am now forced to continue. I believe what the RIAA is doing should be looked at closely since it is borderline illegal. Though they have the money to purchase the goverment for their own uses.
I applaud your site, along with ban-riaa.coma and the eff.org . Please keep it up and keep writing.

~Let the RIAA knock on my door, I will knock back with a baseball bat~

Last CD I bought was in March of 2003!

I do own quite a few RIAA CD's I used to buy a couple a month. Look how much they've losted and I've saved now.

Don't use P2P didn't have enough time to weed through bad copies of songs just to find one I liked.

Started listening instead ot streaming radio anything that isn't RIAA.

I like a lot of what's out there. I still watch videos on MTV and VH1, and I watch a couple shows regularly. If it wasn't for me being poor, I would buy up one of every CD in the local Strawberries. This not buying music thing is really getting on my nerves. I'll keep it at a minimum when I get a job, though.

A as for the radio i do not have tape or cd in it so its on.

a) Pretty sure, not sure who my JPop bands are signed with...
b) I try... but Kazaa di all those terrible things to K-Lite, so not at the moment
c) Nope
g) You hit the nose on the head with this one

Even though I avoid P2P, I have found a great free ware app for Mac OS X called StreamRipperX (1.0.5), an open source (GPL) application which lets you listen to internet radio streams and rip the songs into MP3 format.

You might be amazed as to how simple this is to do with this awesome program!

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8410

I use this to preview music, but if you find a radio station with a stream of at least 128k, you will have some decent quality MP3's to listen to.

And if you use iTunes, you can encode the MP3's into higher quality AAC, or burn them as an audio quality CD!

Are there any similar Windows apps out there that any one uses?

(sorry if I go a little off topic here Code - all the comments on internet radio reminded me of my "hobby").

I don't see an option for me, so I'll create one: h) I still buy RIAA music, but only pre-owned from non-RIAA sources, like Ebay or secondspin.com. But it's mostly older non-pop stuff, performed by fully clothed artists and probably wouldn't be available retail.

Warning: irrelevent boast coming up!

I recently got the limited 2-CD version of Local H's Pack Up The Cats on Ebay for 6 cents! : D

I'm B. I do download, but most of it isn't RIAA anyway. I have not spent a penny on RIAA records in 7 or 8 months and never went below B.

i havent bought any music or movies except for used/previously viewed in well over a year i cant remember the last time i bought any actually and i encourage friends/family to do the same, also refuse to buy pepsi products too... isnt pepsi in cahoots with the RIAA?

anyway..... i've been away from the site for a while, glad to be back

*waves* at CodeWarrior glad to see You're back too Sir

Pepsi is just as bad as of the latest commercial. It's a false commercial, and the boycott now extends to Pepsi (at least on my end).

I haven't bought an cd's in last 2 years, I did some downloading up till about 6 months ago, I didn't quit because of the lawsuits, but because I got copys of everything I had on vinyl.
R

thanks Ladyguin..good to see you back too

*waves* back...

I think you will find that there are more people buying and not even knowing there is a boycott on than do. I doubt it's more than a fraction of music buyers who even come to sites like this. You only have to look at the trend of legal music download sites to realise that this is the case. Big media controls the publicising of anything detrimental to their own revenue streams.

The internet can be powerful but in this instance I just don't believe it is. Sorry to put a downer on things. But I just can't see any grass roots movement like this making a huge impact which is annoying in itself. If someone wants to try to prove me wrong I'm all ears.

DeadMan,

I would have to agree on everything except one point. I do believe it is possible for a grassroots movement like this to make a huge impact. It isn't happening though.

One of the most disappointing things on this website is the extinction of the "CALL TO ACTION" threads. And the map where you click on your state and see who is organizing protests. They were small - but again - grassroots movements start small in every aspect.

This site has fantastic information and everyone here has great ideas and passion. But I also feel like it is becoming increasingly more just "preaching to the choir." Which everyone here has always done.. but in addition to taking some kind of action.

I haven't seen a picture of anyone standing outside a studio with a boycott sign for several months. We aren't giving up hope on our cause, so why are we giving up hope on our protests?

I take that partially back. There is still a link to protest-related stuff on the main page. I do not know if the map is still around, but that ought to say something about how many other people see it. It should be more than a side link. We need to get some protests going now.

i still dl music illegally but the RIAA should either lower the prices of their music, quit bitching, and let us listen to music we truely love for a fair price, or all be shot

A

My only exception being the OffSpring.

Other than that, no radio, no cd's, no downloads or uploads of RIAA material. I stick with www.magnatune.com now

C

I'm boycotting primarily the major labels, for purely musical reasons. They've been flooding the market with idiotic, useless tripe for years, at the expense of real artists and musicians who have a genuine passion for music. That being said, I try to avoid music on RIAA labels if possible; however, music ALWAYS comes before politics for me. Overall, I'd say that I could probably count the number of (non major-label) RIAA CDs I've bought in the last year on one hand.

im boycotting. i primarily download jpop kpop and indie.. but even that has the tainted flavor of sued fans.
I should sue them for emotional damage.

Music was a major part of my life and the artists have proven by their lack of objection that the passion they exhibit in their music is as fraudulent as the RIAA claims of damage.

I'm not boycotting, as I didn't dl or buy the majr label stuff before. I adhere to my indies only policy so there is no need to get hot an bothered over ther RIAA membership labels and artists. They just don't have anything I want. So no, I am not boycotting. The point is moot.

i direct many people to this site and tell/attempt to educate anyone i get a chance too.. sometimes it works... sometimes it doesn't

I never post here, but i have signed up on this site and i read it everday. I NEVER buy any RIAA music. But I do download everything i can get my hands on hehehe music, vidz and movies. I wouldn't piss on the RIAA if their hair was on fire. Anything i can do to hurt them I will do, like taking music and not paying for it. Thx for this site and long live the boycott.

I am ashamed to admit that I bought the Led Zeppelin DVD. I do download some RIAA songs for research purposes. (Being in a band, you sometimes gotta learn to do covers.) I NEVER share RIAA recordings via p2p. I have been dying to buy some White Stripes albums, but I have resisted the urge and won't scratch that itch until Jack and Meg drop all ties to the RIAA (and the same goes for any artist I like enslaved by a major label.) I still go to movies, but shout at the screen when they try to show propoganda before the flick starts.

Shmoo, of Electric Gypsy
Support Local and Independent Music!

"I still go to movies, but shout at the screen when they try to show propoganda before the flick starts."

Bring a ton of people with you, then when those things are shown, have everyone walk out and demand their money back. Tell them you came to see the movie, not their nonsense.

I guess a or b.
eMule is busy working 7/24 but the last RIAA stuff in it was recent David Bowie half a year ago. And I didn't like what I got so I just deleted it.
No I am trying to figure out if it was because of a bad album or because my subconsciousness rejects artists backed up by the evil industry
I am still buying a lot of non-RIAA cds though and I convinced a couple of guys not to buy RIAA stuff any more.

I haven't bought an RIAA CD since last summer, and that's only because it was $1.88 (The Hassles Greatest Hits). I don't do P2P, I'm on several mailing lists, if it's something I don't have, I'll d/l it. I have 15,000 records and I'm in the process of converting them all to CD. As far as I'm concerned the RIAA can go to hell. Mark Q¿Q

C
By occasionally I mean once every six months.

A for me since 2003 no riaa product for this guitar player only indie this iswhere the true music is any how

A

I do not even listen to the radio anymore...to much BS
I only listen to independent music and the music stations here on DMusic.. and of course I still listen to the old music that I own.

A

I've listened to indy music most all my life so I have never had use for RIAA crap. The hardest thing to see is a former indy great signing to a major. Breaks my heart...and costs them a fan.

boycott Pepsi (itunes) and Coke (musicmatch) too!

Of course Pepsi. They made that stupid false commercial. Prosecuted? Criminals? I don't think so. Nothing has gone to court yet, and it's not a criminal offense. It's a civil offense, not punishable by prison time or other criminal consequences.

Coke, on the other hand, hasn't made a stupid move by putting a false commercial on TV. All they're doing is using MusicMatch to make some money. Nothing wrong with that.

Here goes:

a) Avoiding all RIAA related music by not uploading, downloading, or purchasing from any source? (yes, even Russia..lol )
=> Trying my best. Pretty much any CD I buy I run through RIAA Radar.

b) Just using P2P to freely upload and download RIAA affiliated songs.
=> No.

c) Just occasionally buying one or two CDs from RIAA affiliated labels.
=> I think I might have bought one last month. It was a Crystal Method CD. I like them too much not to spend money on it. Otherwise I make it a point not to.

d) b and c
=> No.

e) Buy RIAA affiliated CDs all the time- I just love 'em.
f) I love the RIAA. I buy RIAA t-shirts and caps and mugs, and
even send in contributions.
=> Yes on both of those. My house needs more coasters and targets for my crossbow ... j/k

g) I am Cary Sue and I will sue you all .
=> Earthling, you made me very angry!

Well, I haven't bought an RIAA cd in about 2 years now.. being a metalhead, it isn't very hard to avoid most RIAA crap. Unfortunately there's a few bands out there that are RIAA that I'll listen to, but if I buy them it'll be off ebay, used.

No uploading.
No downloading.
No new purchases (I do buy used sometimes).
Spend most of my time ripping my vinyl collection to CD.

A. No RIAA cds ever again unless they are used from a yardsale! Have completely switched to independent artists.

1. I buy used, but do remixes dl'ed off kazaalite count?

What is this a joke Buy Riaa Musick Download Riaa Musick sorry I'm to busy laughing to finish my Rant************

"What is this a joke Buy Riaa Musick Download Riaa Musick sorry I'm to busy laughing to finish my Rant************"

um, what?

''What is this a joke Buy Riaa Musick Download Riaa Musick sorry I'm to busy laughing to finish my Rant************'

um, what?"

I second this...

''What is this a joke Buy Riaa Musick Download Riaa Musick sorry I'm to busy laughing to finish my Rant************'

um, what?"

I second this...

Mostly A. But some few times C.

I've been boycotting since June 2003, but I've bought a couple of RIAA related CDs (by ELP, which I've been looking for in a loooong time).
I've also been downloading one RIAA song, but only for academic purposes - learning the song for playing and performing it with a band.

me?? totally 'A' ... Well, barring the purchase of the USED (second-hand) CDs; after all, RIAA has NO profit of them (at least in Poland). Not that I bought them often, but sometimes (very rarely); from a friend, from the second-hand shop, etc. And that's the thing I tell other people: buying the used CDs isn't empowering RIAA (or any other ASSociation of this kind). And yeah, I prefer the indy music -- and the site I look most often at is www.iuma.com (they've got lots of folk and bluegrass (BG) music, which I love; I visit dmusic.com sometimes too, though)

Cheerz,
Critto

Um, c I think. In the past 6 years I've purchased Ani Difranco's "Living in Clip", and a cd by a group called Moving Breath. RIAA radar is off and on reporting Difranco as indie, so I can't be really sure. Oh, and I guess the used cd's I occasionally indulge in count too.

And I'm glad to report, our house is officially "Hey-ya" free.

Now, if only we could get a cd player to work in our car, we could be boycotting talentless RIAA-stooge loaded radio too.

"Now, if only we could get a cd player to work in our car, we could be boycotting talentless RIAA-stooge loaded radio too."

So? What's the obstacle that prevents you from doing so?
Besides, I dunno if it's in your country (USA?), but it certainly *is* very popular in Poland: to put a normal portable CD player ('discman') in your car, and connect it to the radio via the special 'cassette', which has a cable going out of it and the electronic device to transmit the signal to the magnetophone's head. You connect the CD player to this wire, and you can hear it via your radio, without a need for any soldering work.
Besides, you can always connect the cable with the signal transmitting the music to the magnetophone's head; only sometimes its volume is too high ('overpowering' or how is it called ???). I once have done so with some electric guitar, and in result, I achieved the good heavy metal sound. But, I can't guarantee that it wouldn't damage this head, so you better don't try it out unless you consult somebody skilled in electronics (I am not such person).

Cheerz,
Critto

A
I haven't bought a cd in 4-5 years
Already have ALL the mp3's I'll EVER need!

I haven't purchased a cd since the riaa started the law suits. I listen to indi artists mostly and my hundreds of cds i bought over the years. I did download mp3's but not any more(i can't afford a law suit). I mostly downloaded old stuff i had bought back in the 60's & 70's and my hundreds of cd's i have are downloaded on my hard drive ( its easy to deal with that way). one more thing , befor the boycott, if i down loaded something new i liked i WOULD GO AND BUY IT!!!!!!! #%&@*&#@!!!!.

Smokindog, I stopped buying new (first-hand) CDs when RIAA, with a support of Metallica (one of the few groups that sold out) started its onslaught on the Napster. It was the time I heard about the organized boycott of RIAA for the first time. And I don't listen to Metallica anymore, even to the second-hand CDs, for I simply started to despise the group for its active involvement on the 'dark side' (though I always valued their style of music, and 'nothing else matters' was one of my best favorite rock ballads).

Cheerz,
Critto

oh, the car keeps spitting out the tape adapter for our mp3-cd player, it doesn't like that the "tape" has no data.

Yep. I haven't bought anything in a while. It's been a while since I purchased any CDs, even before I started to officially boycott last summer. There was one CD that I had wanted and intended to purchase, until they started sueing people. I never did buy that CD. They don't want anyone to share. So I haven't been sharing or downloading any of their stuff. I downloaded some indie stuff recenlty. I'll buy it as soon as I can shake loose some spare change.

SHERM /COFFEE ; It's means I wouldn't BUY or DOWNLOAD RIAA musick even if you threaten to cut my Balls off!!!!!!!!!!!!!OK

Complete boycott.
I am thinking of looking at Napster to see what that is like. But I like really old and off-the-wall music - which probably won't be there.
I used to sit in front of my computer for hours and download tunes from Kazaa - 3/4 of which I immediately deleted due to glitches - some because it wasn't what I wanted. It was my hobby. While I was doing that, I didn't think about life problems - I just zoned out in music. I don't have that anymore. Thank you RIAA.
I don't add to their coffers.

I didn't read what everyone's been saying here (96 posts! wow), but thought I'd throw in my feedback.

I'm pretty strapped so even if I wanted to (which I don't) I couldn't.

I haven't purchased anything RIAA related in well over a year.

HOWEVER between my birthday (August) and Christmas I received 2 cds, and 5 DVDs. So there were purchases made on my behalf.

I'm not gonna pretend I wasn't happy about the spcific selections, but I am a stern protester of the RIAA. I have links to this site on 3 of my websites, and vocalize my protest (in detail) in my journal (online) frequently in hopes of spreading the word.

Hope it's helping.

Oh, and I don't go to the movie theater anymore. I haven't been in at least 2 years. If I watch movies they're on TV, or I buy previously viewed. I know it's an imperfect plan, but so am I (and I'm a movie and music addict! tee hee).

wow.. lots of response to this one.. here goes *deep breath*
I download when I'm listening to streaming radio and hear a song I like. I download stuff I hear on the radio, cuz I don't really wanna buy a cd. Usually the cds suck anyhow, so I only download what I like. I download when I can't GET the stuff I want on cd, which is a lot of the time cuz I have fairly eclectic tastes
Movies? See em, Buy em, watch em
I *personally* have not bought a cd in almost three years. I download soundtracks a lot, and the wife buys the discs for me (she thinks she's surprising me, but when I say I like a song, she figures the best thing for her to do is run out and buy it) but that's limited to soundtracks
Am I Carey Sue? no, but I'd like to be the lawyer who wins a case against him. That would be SOOO SWEET to be a famous lawyer. Like Bugliosi or Cochrane. Oh wait.. not like Cochrane. Like Leflaw!
*shameless butt kissing*
ttmmm

To be honest, unlike my previous post, I havent bought much music. Unfortunately, several years ago I was addicted to the cd distributors of BMG and ColumbiaHouse. Their deals seemed irresistable....buy 1cd get 10free.... buy 4cds, get 12 free. I participated in these offers, cancelled after fulfilling the purchased-CD requirement(s), and then later, enrolled again. At that time, most of my cd's were riaa-labels. After accumulating about 100 cd's by this method, I realized that owning alot of CD's created burdens for me.... most of my cd's just sat in my collection rack and collected dust; paying an averaged $4-5 per CD x 100 CDs was alot of money for me then (of course, at the time, the CDs in retail stores were going for $13.99-16.99). So, it was 1997 when I stopped buying music.

From 1997-today, I have only bought a few CD's of various artists. Fortunately, all of them were from non-RIAA labels!!! I can officially say i boycotted riaa beginning in 1997. However, I do listen to all types of music whether it's mostly riaa-labels or not. My money is not going to the labels tho.

In regards to downloading music: i've done alot of downloading during the napster and aimster year. i am clean of riaa-labelled music! However, after napster and aimster and afew others were forced to close their sites, I stopped downloading music. period.

I AM PROUD TO BOYCOTT-RIAA.

i am also proud to wait for the time when music downloads will be similar to the business models of ColumbiaHouse and BMG, where music was 1/4 the price retail charged. With this idea, i'm waiting for the time when all music will be 25cents per song, or 2.50 per album. Unfortunately, i think my wait will be long.

A and B. And I buy used CDs.

I try to boycott the RIAA in a cash sense, but it's hard when almost every artist is signed up with it. I like to download/burn whenever possible, and I like to buy used CDs so that I'm not directly supporting the RIAA. I also try to support good mp3 downloading schemes, buying music from non-RIAA affiliates when the price is right. I'm also trying to find plenty of good artists that are not RIAA affiliates. Luckily for me, most of my favorite bands (...or artists... I listen to electronica) aren't signed up with the RIAA.