Blogging Ottinger (tim)RIAA Wants A Stop to Advertising
It looks like the RIAA wants to shutdown all the advertisement that they can. They’ve tried to fix it so people don’t do mixtapes, are prevented from “unauthorized loaning”, are being prevented from playing music from friends, but apparently sales haven’t decreased enough yet.
Now they want radio stations to stop playing their music. This latest move will give radio stations reasons to move off-label for their content. Radio stations make hits, and that’s a well known factoid. People buy the songs they hear on the radio, or at least buy music from artists they hear on the radio. This is why the whole payola thing started. I guess instead of the stations paying the DJs, they want it the other way round.
It sounds like cannibalism to me, like they’re cutting off every form of sales-generating advertising possible. I guess it really is more about control than money.
