The RIAA is a way of saying the Recording Industry organisation of America, which consists of established companies that oversee the recording and distribution of music in the USA. Roughly ninety percent of recording corporations or distributors are members of the RIAA. The association’s goals are now essentially led toward copyright protection. This is an enormous change from the creation of the RIAA in the 1950s, where the most important concern was standardizing the standard of vinyl records, and later cassette tapes. A lot of the movement in the RIAA, now under the direction of Mitch Bainwol, is because of the frequent illegal downloads or duplicating of music that’s copyright protected. When Napster first became available in the latter 1990s, the general public all of a sudden had the chance to download music without coughing up for it. [Read more...]