RIAA Boycott Month: Five Awesome Ways to Hurt the Devil



Filed under: March 9, 2007, 6:14 pmFiled under: Uncategorized

Gizmodo has determined that March, 2007, will be the month of RIAA boycotting. They have sent forth two good ways to spend this month, buying eMusic MP3s and seeing artists live.

I present to you five more ways to hurt the RIAA in March:

5. Speak up your opinion

RIAA is hated and despised in geek community, and for a good reason. Add to the multitude of voices your own. Sign the Electronic Frontier Foundation petition. Speak up on forums, blogs and message boards. Perhaps they ignore voice of community; but community doesn’t.

4. Switch to public domain and creative commons music

There is plenty of good music licensed as public domain and especially Creative Commons (you can find plenty of CC-licensed music at Creative Commons website). Yes, this won’t help the artists, but that’s why this tip is only at #4. If Creative Commons will spread, RIAA will take very painful hit in the crotch.

3. Crack the DRMs

By participating in DRM-cracking community, you don’t do anything inherently illegal. If everybody will learn to evade DRM, it will become obsolete. Strip Devil of his tools, and then banish him.

2. Donate to your favorite artists

Use donations to help your favorite artists. This way, you’ll give them the full sum. Buying an album from RIAA album won’t help – out of your twenty bucks only one dollar (at most) will go to the musician.

1. Buy the indendent music

Finally, support independent label. Use RIAA Radar to find labels free from RIAA imprisonment and buy music from them.

Remember: if you won’t pay the RIAA, they will eventually dissolve. Help to bring down devil incarnate of modern America.

Praying for quick yet painful downfall of RIAA,

Heliobis.