the best one i have seen is the hey! clip (pixies).

i guess now those two girls are gonna have to fork over the piles of cash they made off of the pixies.

come to think of it, with almost 6 million views, you can probably blame these girls for everything!

Music is often made famous, thus increasing sales due to silly stunts like "kids dancing to their favorite song". Can you say "TV Commercial"? Sure they pay for the rights of the songs but the artists benefit as much as the vendor. Unless of course you're The Clash and sell out to Levi which results in Billy Childish releasing "Should I Suck or Should I Blow" in protest of the sellout. Maybe this is good, an indication of desperation on the part of the RIAA?

God, they are just terribly bad at what they do.

Yeah, hehe, my brother-in-law showed me this one too
He said she actually got hired by MTV, because this, and other videos she made are so good.

It's odd that I'm not okay with this, but I'd be okay with it if the RIAA killed them.

Killed the people who dance around on YouTube?

TedKoppel wants to kill Brookers!!!!

Yeah. And posted a video of it. I would enjoy that.

Well...yeah.

murdering children is inappropriate in most countries. so make sure you link through a third world government website.

the formation of a common sense judicary branch should definitely be in place for shit like this. so a judge can say "this doesn't make any fucking sense." and ( i'm assuming the RIAA is a large company) the fact that this genius idea didn't get squashed internally speaks volumes for their organization.

That presupposes that "assholes" are bad. There are many good uses for assholes. I can't think of any for the RIAA.

RIAA is a conglomeration of the biggest recording companies on the planet.

We need Theodore Roosevelt (TrustBuster ™) back. That man had a big stick which he used not only on the Cubans but on Big Business as well. Debate the meaning of that amongst yourselves.

I buy CDs and don't burn them. I respect intellectual property. I actually support the RIAA, for the most part. ( Without the current system, very little of the music I love would have been made or gotten to me, at least as far as I can tell. And now musicians who wish to forgo the RIAA and the whole industry can do so via the internet. But it seems that most who get the chance opt into the system.)

But this is absurd. These kid videos are better advertising than MTV videos. Its clear the RIAA feels, and rightly so, like a cornered animal. The technology is, for the moment, making protection of intellectual property rights very difficult, and will probably continue to do so for some time, maybe permanently, in which case we will see a major shift in the industry. But at this point they are, like a threatened animal, just lashing out mindlessly.

Sad.