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Scary Halloween for the RIAA

Posted by Jon Newton on October 7, 2003 at 10:22 AM (printer friendly)

A band of ravers have adopted Don't just groove. MOVE! as the slogan in their plan to make Halloween as scary as possible for the RIAA and its owners, the Big Five record labels.

"On Friday night, October 31st Halloween night, people all across the nation will be throwing Halloween Raves," say the organizers on various websites (see below), going on:

"We are organizing raves in our own cities, towns, and neighborhoods to stand up to the bullies in the music industry!

"Organize a rave in your own city and play only the music you obtained by file sharing on the internet!!

"Starting on Halloween night, music lovers around the world will take a vow to not buy music from any record label or any music artist who supports suing people who share music over he internet.

"Music lovers will also stop buying music from record labels who rip off their artists. Every record label must sign the Music Artist's Bill of Rights! If a record label will not sign the Music Artist's Bill of Rights, we won't buy music from that record label!"

AND DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT THE VIDEO !

INFO: http://newjersey.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=8376&group=webcast
ANIMATED VIDEO: http://newjersey.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/halloween_rave.wmv

INFO: http://montreal.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=9612&group=webcast
ANIMATED VIDEO: http://montreal.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/halloween_rave.wmv

INFO: http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/1651034.php
ANIMATED VIDEO: http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/halloween_rave.wmv

INFO: http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31701&group=webcast
ANIMATED VIDEO: http://chicago.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/halloween_rave.wmv
ANIMATED VIDEO: http://images.indymedia.org/imc/chicago/halloween_rave.rm

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compmore	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 11:00 AM cool video. that should get some peoples attention and crush the christmas season sales if it's sucessful. I for one am going to participate

rabidzealot	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 11:13 AM yee haw

fatchuck	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 11:29 AM Talk about your glorified circle-jerks. "Organize a rave in your own city and play only the music you obtained by file sharing on the internet!!" Sure, BTW, where are the rave instructions? It's one thing to say this but quite another to be genuinely helpful and give tips or a walk-through to how to make this happen. Morons. "Starting on Halloween night, music lovers around the world will take a vow to not buy music from any record label or any music artist who supports suing people who share music over he internet." Nice attitude. It's good not to buy from any MAJOR record label, but what's wrong with artists who support suing people who share their music over the Internet? If musicians want to share their music, they'll put it up on their web site or on dmusic.com, mp3.com or any other legal web site. If an artist doesn't want you to share their music over the Internet, fcking respect their wishes. If they sue you for sharing their music, well duh, you have it coming. Does 'getting permission' mean anything to filesharers? "Music lovers will also stop buying music from record labels who rip off their artists." Finally, a good start. BTW, that's ALL major record labels. "Every record label must sign the Music Artist's Bill of Rights!" Or what? BTW, there's no link to a MABoR in the article. How the hll should this magic document be found? "If a record label will not sign the Music Artist's Bill of Rights, we won't buy music from that record label!" Right. If my experience is any indication, these people aren't now nor ever will be organized enough to make this happen. It's easy to talk about what you want to achieve, it's quite another to follow through. Peace, Chuck

TheFirstNutZo	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 11:41 AM Chuck - I tend to agree with you, but I hope that they can pull it off. Its very loosely fit into reality but its a start, and well, it doesn't hurt :) Except it does sort of make the Anti-RIAA community look uneducated.

compmore	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 11:43 AM It may not be complete and possibly lack some orginazation but its a good start and it's a public awareness to get people to rally behind. I believe this is an idea designed to rally behind and to be orginized locally. I think you're going to see a lot of local orginazation coming out of this rather than a centeralized one. each community has their own leaders and someone will take up the banner.

hangtogether	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 12:02 PM Not much of a raver myself, but if this can increase the mindshare of the idea of boycotting, then it's definately a good thing.

babet	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 12:17 PM how about everybody just stop buying cds all together....download them for FREE (can't hurt) .....and show the riaa how they're really making a difference.

raoulduke1	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 12:33 PM The problem is that most of the people who are ready to boycott are already not buying that much mainstream music. Everyone needs to work on the next generation. Preach to your younger brither and sisters, your children and their friends that file sharing and tape trading are perfectly legitimate activities and that the major record labels are evil. It is a battle for the hearts and minds of our youth. The onlyhope that we have is that young people have an uncanny ability to understand when they are being lied to but only when there are others out there who preach the truth. These raves are a great start. We just have to keep them going over the long haul.

W-B	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 12:34 PM Er . . . I'd just STAY AWAY from any RIAA product whatsoever. Not only don't buy -- don't download, upload, sideways-load, whatever-load . . . any of that . . . "their" material. Much of it appears to be junk anyways. And it's obvious why they don't ask the artists about this strategy they've been pursuing: They're too busy TELLING the artists how and what to think on this issue.

fatchuck	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 12:55 PM Sorry, don't mean to a drag, but there are literally dozens of activities happening around the world against the RIAA. It's cool and all, but all of them have the relative weight of a feather when what is really needed is an anvil. Also, please BE CAREFUL with the "Don't buy it, download it" rhetoric. Sure, it may feel good and be justifiable in some cases, but does ANYONE want this same ethic to be used against independent artists? It's very easy for people to take a belief and then use it to seriously hurt the good guys - Indie artists. Same goes for Boycotting. Emphasize boycotting the major labels, but show some thought regarding Indies. Last, just a tip. As we've probably learned in speech class, when you say "No!" to something, you have to show your audience the alternatives. Point them to the Indie alternatives: http://music.dmusic.com http://garageband.com http://genres.mp3.com/download_charts http://godsofmusic.com http://iuma.com http://soundclick.com http://ampcast.com or to make it really easy: http://music.fatchucks.com Peace, Chuck

rabidzealot	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 2:19 PM i think that since no one wants to unite and attack the riaa together, everyone fighting the riaa in their own way, regardless of how, if is the best we can hope for. if it doesn't work, then we lose. but i think that even if we lose against the riaa - the riaa will not win. they are going to be dragged down by another power, seeing as they are obsolete. but the problem is, what if the other power is just as bad or worse?

zeitgheist	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 2:20 PM I agree that the 'favers' will probably not be very organized, nor do I suspect this will be primary concern at the halloween raves... However, any press is good press. Bottom line-they aint FANS of the riaa, thus they are friends of mine. Rave on... ~time flies~

ZeonMusic	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 2:52 PM How can anyone within their right mind who is not a politician, a record label executive, or a Hollywoodian dare to be a FAN of the RIAA??? Zeon "Live Free or Die!!"

Etrigan	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 2:56 PM Rave on!!!!!

PhantomGhost	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 2:58 PM I'm in. Totally agreed. I'll get some new tracks from dmusic and play only them. So much for the RIAA. They are on their way out. Corporate greed just cannot rule out consumers. DOWN with the RIAA! :-:~ PhantomGhost ~:-:

zeitgheist	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 3:11 PM hmmmm Zeon...... Politician, record co exec, hollywoodian? I just KNOW you dint say that in the same sentence as 'right mind'! ;p ~time flies~

scayf	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 4:35 PM Austin, being the "Live Music Capitol of the World", would be the perfect spot for an anti-RIAA demonstration. Plenty of local bands for entertainment, too. Anyone else in/around Austin interested?

zeitgheist	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 5:37 PM Time and Money permitting, i might be interested. Im way down south in Rockport tho (corpus area)... ~time flies~

tronda	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 5:55 PM Terrible. Frankly the idea of going to a "rave" and hearing RIAA music is just surreal and disorienting. Maybe there are not many ravers here but I can assure you that back in my raver days almost all the music was from obscure European labels that only pressed vinyl and limited pressings to just a couple thousand copies. Not like you will find tons of that on P2P.

maddawg15	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 6:16 PM umm, newsflash! ive been doing stuff like that before the riaa starting sueing!! like tons of parties, and 98% of the music was from songs i downloaded. i'd like to do it, but unfourtunanly all the music i found on kazaa are all corrupted :(

maddawg15	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 6:18 PM and if all else fails, find a good cd ripper, and find a bunch of friends with cd's you like and rip those songs, that also works, a bit more time but works.

maddawg15	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 6:19 PM oh and btw, make sure your out of city limits, learn that from me.

Justin42980	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 10:15 PM Speaking of raves, let it be known that if i didn't have a file sharing app i could most definetly not find any hot foriegn beats in our local stores. File sharing has been personally enlightening to me and showed me that yes, there is actually good music out there that has been pushed aside by the RIAA in order to promote people like Britney Spears who do not have any creative bones in their bodies. DJ's rock and long live Techno!

Anti-RIAA	Date: October 8, 2003 @ 10:36 AM Amen Justin. Ravers rule! Techno and House Forever!!!!!!!!!!!!

HanzoSan	Date: October 9, 2003 @ 5:10 AM Funny how its somehow their music "The musician's music" when some pro RIAA person wants to support the musicians right to tell us not to download it, but in truth the musician does not own the music, the record label does, so please tell the record label to give all the rights to the masters back to the musician and then you can get on filesharers case for "stealing" music. Fact is, when you release something into the wild its no longer yours, musicians need to learn to profit from the actual release instead of trying to micro manage and control distribution. Just like musicians can sign contracts with record labels, they can sign contracts with napster and get paid when we share files. First however we need to get rid of record labels so that we the consumers and the musicians(artists) can negotiate without the RIAA middle man in the way. We could always start a non profit napster style service for musicians later on.

HanzoSan	Date: October 9, 2003 @ 5:12 AM "Right. If my experience is any indication, these people aren't now nor ever will be organized enough to make this happen. It's easy to talk about what you want to achieve, it's quite another to follow through." To comment on this. Less people will buy CDs, record labels will be hurt, the goal is not to attack musicians but to kill the original business model. What we will attempt to do is boycott big record labels while at the same time supporting new business models, so yes you should buy music, just dont buy CDs.

zenflesh	Date: October 9, 2003 @ 3:50 PM is this a joke? "Every record label must sign the Music Artist's Bill of Rights! If a record label will not sign the Music Artist's Bill of Rights, we won't buy music from that record label!" link? googling "Music Artist's Bill of Rights" gives exactly one link & that is to another blog posting... How about having a rave where you don't play any riaa music instead of a rave where you only play downloaded music. duh...