Friend Or Foe: RIAA Radar

CrookedFinger writes "RIAA Radar is a bookmarklet that helps users find out if an album was released by a member of the RIAA. This will make it a bit easier to decide whether my purchase would fund attacks on my rights or support a plucky independent..."

Re:I don't get it

[XipX]

Not if the store doesn't accept the return as warning labels are starting to appear on DRM infected CDs.

Re:4AD!! NOOOOO!!!

[MrHanky]

NO!! Not 4AD! Please say it's joke! ^cry^

All right, all right, it's a joke! Happy now? Unfortunately, the radar seems to think the distributor of the album is the company that released the album, so even small Norwegian independent labels like Rune Grammofon [runegrammofon.com] (I did a test with Supersilent) get tainted by being distributed in the USA by ECM/Universal. 4AD is a British company, and should be quite independent of the Recording Industry Assosiation of America.

This means this RIAA Radar is quite useless for anything released on a non-US label and distributed by a major label, unless you really don't want them to have any of your money. Then I suggest you buy your CDs from amazon.co.uk instead.