The War On Terrorism
By Lea Reznik

I’m not really a writer, but I just had to express my ideas, I apologize ahead of time for grammatical errors.

What is terrorism?

Terrorism is the act of a group who forces another group to trust in ideas, technology, and/or beliefs.

Over the past year the term terrorism has taken upon several meanings. What comes to your mind when you hear the word “terrorism” is far from the meaning that I have learned to understand over the past year.

Terrorism doesn’t only exist in Israel, where hundreds are killed each and everyday. Terrorism doesn’t only exist in the ashes of ground zero where the two towers stood proudly a year ago. It exists in our homes, work, schools, and is taking place every second of everyday.

I believe there are far greater powers than that of one person – I believe that the RIAA is the real terrorist in today’s society.

If you want your music heard, or if you want to hear music you must confine to the RIAA’s ideas, technology, and beliefs – what you hear is what they want you to hear. You might choose what music you listen to – Rap, Country, Pop, etc, but you still conform to their ideas of good music and you become confined to their beliefs. They have controlled you and you belong to them. They have controlled radio, television, and advertisements for years. With all of the propaganda they have employed on society they want to control you while your home downloading music from your computer and arrest you. Arrest faithful slaves to their copyrighted music. Their copyrighted music – not the artists who pour their hearts out to perform the music for beloved fans. These terrorists are the worst – they are profiting from left to right – starving artists and musicians sign slavery contracts to get a few gigs here and there. When your time in the musical spotlight is over, you can’t even afford pay your phone bill with the royalties you get from them. You belong to them, they forced you to believe in their ideas and now you just wait to appear on VH1’s where are they now? Where are you now?

Why am I saying this? – To answer all your questions. DMusic is building a place for the musicians and to set apart general RIAA ideas and beliefs, to break away from the original. It can’t happen soon enough for me and that is what we are working so diligently on these ideas. We are working on creating freedom for musicians. We are creating a place for musicians to get their music heard. To be heard by fans of music and not by RIAA talent scouts. We know musicians here at DMusic have talent. It’s real musicians here – not RIAA traditional boy bands and pop princesses. Musicians here don’t need to be told how to sing and what to sing. Break away from the RIAA’s imposed ideas, technology, and beliefs – we don’t need them to terrorize us any longer.

That’s the real war on Terrorism!!!

Boycott-riaa.com

The past year and a half I have heard far more talent from indy artists than from what the RIAA has spoon-fed us for years. I hear great music everyday from small local bands that have not felt the grip of the music industry on their ideas and music direction. I get so angry everyday because I hear more and more how the RIAA conducts their business.

There has got to be a way to pry the music industry out of the grip of "Terrorists" and set it free for any artist to contribute too, no matter what their music skill or bankability.

Just make good music and don't let them have it. Post it here and elsewhere. It will get heard.

ok, so i think it's safe to say that we all (that frequent this site, anyway) agree that the RIAA, the big labels, etc etc are the big enemies.. the bad guys. we all want to see them go down because of their practices of overcharging for cd's, cheating the artists and lining their own pockets.

BUT - i'm having trouble seeing an alternative business model that compensates artists. dmusic is a fantastic site!! i'm so glad i've found it... but nobody here is getting paid. p2p will never go away, so i doubt pay-based file sharing/downloading will ever work. what's the end result? artists will rely on gigs and merchandise to make money?

if anybody has some ideas on this, i'd LOVE to hear 'em!

Less talk more action!

Yes, but usually the guys at these big "bad" record labels are the ones who have passed school, gone through college and perhaps got a degree in the Arts or Business (both of which are relevant in managing big companies). Unlike many musicians, who although may be excellent at singing or dancing, have not put in the hard yards in all fields. Take for example, Eminem (just an example!!!), we all know he failed the 9th grade thrice, yet no one can deny hes gifted in the music scene. Basically, without the management and high calibre of record label executives, some artists might never have gotten as big as they are today. These are the people who organise everything, the artists just get up on stage and entertain. Hence, the worlds pecking order.

Oh, and I agree that the cheating/ripping off, going on should most definitly be stopped... and aren't most people posting their stuff on here in an attempt to get their stuff heard and perhaps eventually get signed to a label?
*Sigh* The best thing is to have your own independant label... Mookrit Productions.. who wants to donate the first 100,000?

the industry is a devious thing. point blank