RIAA vs. 19th Century Cattle Barons

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-01-15 04:55pm

Following the Civil War the Cattle Baron's reaped enoumous profits taking advantage of the wide open ranges, and public doman property's for their herds of cattle. Over production, and poor quality control, & disease, resulted in a sudden down turn in profits. The Cattle Barons concluded that their finaincial losses could only be the results of Homestead Farmers rustling their cattle. To this ends they got special laws written, formed powerful monoploies, and hired out law enforcement as well as criminals to perform acts of intimidation and even murder for them.

does this sound familiar?

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2004-01-15 05:19pm

Geee, YB... I don't know.... sounds like RIAA, Micro$oft, and many other monopolies to me

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-01-15 05:39pm

the whole arguement of blaming all of their profit's downturn on the alleged theft by all of the small farmers....

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2004-01-15 06:16pm

The result of this was the creation of Gangs such as that of the infamous Billy the Kid, IIRC.

So there is an upside afterall.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-01-15 06:18pm

lol

I can just picture RIAA's response if someone did that....

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-01-15 06:19pm

very disturbing similarities. we already have the RIAA dressing up as police officers, so they're doing almost the exact same thing as the cattle barons had done it seems. well, minus the murder so far.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-01-15 06:29pm

What do you think would have happened if they had let Death Row Records rather then Metallica be their pitbulls against Napster?

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2004-01-15 06:39pm

Wow...that's amazing. You know what they say, history repeats itself...

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-01-15 06:41pm

You realize this is the result of Too much history channel, and the fact that one of my ancestors was one of the hired guns of the RIAA's moral predicessors....