Another reason to hate the RIAA - iPhone Ringtones

Tasel

Another reason to hate the RIAA
From the iPod Observer website:

At one point, Apple was all set to let their customers create their own ringtones for the iPhone. Then the RIAA found out and put a stop to it, according to Daniel Dilger at Roughly Drafted on Friday.

When will we be able to stop the RIAA doing stupid things like this? One of my favorite lines from the article is:

While the RIAA won the right to not pay performers royalties for ringtones, it simultaneously maintained the right to collect the monies for those ringtones. In addition, they wanted to make darn sure that any ringtones generated on the iPhone had to pay that royalty.

So basically, the RIAA wants their cake and to eat it too.

GreatTeacherMacRoss

I'm assuming that when they say 'creating their own ringtones', it means from an existing MP3. Because if the RIAA thinks they're going to get paid for someone who writes their own music and puts it on an iPhone, they're out of their god-damned minds.