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RIAA Campaigning During Grammys
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posted by mpawlo
on Monday February 09, @04:14AM
from the guilt-trip dept.
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Wired reports of a new ad campaign to debute at the Grammys awards. People who download copyright protected music from the Internet are the targets of the 'guilt-instilling ads', according to Wired.
'People still do not realize why it's illegal [to download music from the Internet]' Recording Academy President Neil Portnow said to Wired / AP.
Read more in Wired.
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The television ad, to debut during Sunday night's Grammy broadcast, depicts a teenager downloading a song from the Internet while a crowd dances inside a nightclub.
When the teen completes transferring the song file to her computer, the music and the lights at the club suddenly turn off, leaving clubgoers confused over who pulled the plug on their fun. The ad closes on the Web address for the organization's information site.
It is too bad there is nobody around willing to spend millions to defend freedom. If there were, we might have an ad like this:
In a dark room lit by a candle we hear the clinking of coins as Scrooge counts his ill gotten gains. Simultaneously, a teenager is downloading a song from the internet.
When the download completes, the room is flooded with light, and the artists and consumers all see Scrooge for the twisted, greedy troll he is and are astonished at the amount of money he has fraudulently deprived them all of. He is subsequently hauled off to jail claiming that it was all done for "the sake of the artists", who of course all work at McDonald's. The ad closes with the statement: "Shed some light on another classic scam", and displays the web addresses for Boycott-RIAA.com and Congress.org.
"Anyone who doesn't quote me is paraphrasing."
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be
lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
- Isaac Asimov
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