July 27, 2005 - Digital Music Weblog
Machinima is the use of a video game engine to create original videos, sometimes with music soundtracks. Those soundtracks are a problem for the RIAA, which believes that nobody other than its member labels should ever promote or celebrate music. Presumably, the best way to promote music is by means of corrupt and illegal payola; anything less righteous should be shut down. Anyway, the RIAA shut down a Machinima site. Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing thinks Machinima could be declared fair use, and says the RIAA is commiting "slow, spectacular suicide."
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