Fanlib and RIAA

[anarchicq.livejournal.com]

Ok, so it's been discovered that Fanlib has connections with the RIAA.

I ask the questions on behalf of all the little Fanlib users to delusioned by the validation of TPTB to actually research and think.

Who exactly is the RIAA?

Why does Fanlib's connection with them matter?

Comments

[rez-lo.livejournal.com]

I think my post over here (http://rez-lo.livejournal.com/87495.html#cutid1) is probably the source. The connection is between Hilary Rosen, who built the RIAA and who now heads the Showtime/CBS-sponsored fansite OurChart.org, and FanLib, whose "test case" for their business model was a project for them (the site is for the television show The L Word).

That connection basically suggests that the big media companies are hoping to duplicate the RIAA's strategy to clamp down on any copyright use that doesn't make them money. I've added a longer reply below. Henry Jenkins (link below) also sums up the fears really well in his current article on the whole thing.

[anarchicq.livejournal.com]

YES! That's where I read it. Thank you.