Is the RIAA Pulling a Scam on the Music Industry?

However, the RIAA is not about being fair and just. The game is rigged and the RIAA has rigged it in their favor. The strategy of playing only non-RIAA songs won’t work though because the RIAA has secured the right to collect royalties on all songs regardless of who controls the copyright. RIAA operates under the assumption that they will collect the royalties for the “sound recording copyright” and that the artists who own their own copyright will go to SoundExchange to collect at a later date.

The amount of sense behind this story is nil. The RIAA believes they can collect on songs that does not run through them, just because it’s played on Internet radio. The songs can however be available for free on the web otherwise, just not on radio. How much longer is this foolishness going to last??

Source: Daily Kos