The RIAA prank
Tuesday
Dec 13, 2005
The RIAA is going to sue you for downloading that bootleg copy of Beethoven’s 9th symphony.
Really.
Check out the RIAA prank, an interesting and entertaining series of articles about the RIAA and the music industry, in general. In the first article, for instance, the author muses on how ironic it is that the RIAA wants to uncover the addresses and contact information of the criminals file-swappers, but they themselves have an unlisted number.
But the RIAA’s contact information is just buried. Now, they’ve been fighting vigorously to uncover file-swappers’ addresses and phone numbers, developing tracking codes that can be embedded within MP3 files. And yet, they have an unlisted phone number. Paging Dr. Irony. There is a phone call for Dr. Irony.
The succeeding articles involve phone calls to recording companies, and even Apple (what, you can’t use iTunes on Windows?), and sending checks and used underwear directly to the artists.
Sweet.
(via DIGG)
J. Angelo Racoma is a technology journalist and blogger. See more of his blog posts here at racoma.com.ph, commentaries at racoma.net, and Twitter feed at @jangelo.
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