{"id":36828,"date":"2009-11-05T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091102\/0337556759.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-05T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T17:12:00","slug":"dear-riaa-its-not-working-together-as-a-team-when-its-under-threat-of-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/36828","title":{"rendered":"Dear RIAA: It’s Not ‘Working Together As A Team’ When It’s Under Threat Of Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been trying not to respond to every RIAA blog post these days, but it’s hard to let certain things go when they so rarely make any sense. For example, RIAA President Cary Sherman recently talked up the new regulations that force colleges and universities to “take proactive steps” to stop file sharing<\/a>. He goes on to make it sound like universities decided to do this in the spirit of “teamwork” with the RIAA, rather than because they risked serious financial consequences under the law for not complying. He also leaves out the fact that tons of colleges and universities are pissed off<\/i> and complaining about how much time, effort and money<\/a> they’re wasting on this just because Sherman and his friends still don’t seem able to embrace modern music business models. Colleges and universities have enough to worry about without the government forcing them to act as the RIAA’s police force. If it were truly about teamwork, Cary, you wouldn’t have had to spend so much time getting Congress to pass a law to force them to do this.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been trying not to respond to every RIAA blog post these days, but it’s hard to let certain things go when they so rarely make any sense. For example, RIAA President Cary Sherman recently talked up the new regulations that force colleges and universities to “take proactive steps” to stop file sharing. He goes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}