April 29, 2008
Encourage, Monitor, and Meter
The RIAA 2.0 hasn’t seemed to learn anything from the last 10 years, and they are returning to their old tricks. They’re continuing to sue Internet innovators.
With the major labels’ business model failing, the Lunatics wonder… Why not encourage, monitor, and then meter anyone who can grow music interest on the WWW? Instead, these heavy-handed major labels want to drag any popular music idea that they don’t own into the purgatory of extinction, right alongside of them.
The Lunatics are sure if you haven’t heard of Project Playlist before this, you’ll know about them before this lawsuit is over. The immediate backlash of free publicity for Project Playlist coupled with the proliferation of more anti-RIAA feelings just doesn’t seem to justify this effort.
With that said, The Lunatics see a developing trend in the RIAA 2.0: sue the innovators – not the public – directly. EMI has already sued MP3Tunes. Who’s next?


