Want to know how much money the RIAA feed into Congress and other organisations ?
Then join the club, those folks are not likely to allow anyone to see the focus of their activities, but we can see the scale.
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16748A fascinating pair of documents has surfaced, thanks to consumer advocate and author Gloria Wolk.
“For your viewing pleasure, and because I think these deserve scrutiny, I have made the RIAA’s tax returns for the periods ended March 31, 2005, and 2006, available online,” says Ray Beckerman on Recording Industry vs The People.
“Any experts in exempt organizations tax issues out there?” - he asks, linking to RIAA tax return period ending March 31, 2005 and RAAA tax return period ending March 31, 2006.
(p2pnet also has copies here 2004 and here 2005, just in case.)
After taking away a few expense padded wage bills like Carys $1Million+ we can see this US Cartel group likely spends $30Million on smoothing over politicians qualms regarding free file sharing and excessive copyright concerns, one has to wonder what would occur if joe public had a similar fund such as this yearly for propaganda and influence peddling, I think we could all guess how different the political landscape would be.
