# Clear Channel Radio Networks' Anti Filesharing Stance **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 20, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clear-channel-radio-networks-anti-filesharing-stance/149765 "2003-01-20T06:58:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clear-channel-radio-networks-anti-filesharing-stance/149765/21 "2003-01-21T21:17:29Z")
Yet [another reason](http://www.russfeingold.org/news/radio.htm) why I like my senator. ---
**Author:** ![Azael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@Azael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azael)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clear-channel-radio-networks-anti-filesharing-stance/149765/22 "2003-01-21T21:39:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > However, as if Clear Channel’s heavy-handed and finger-pointing ads weren’t bad enough, there’s something a lot more ominous on the file-sharing horizon. \*\* Think that’s ominous? Take a load of [this](http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993287). ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clear-channel-radio-networks-anti-filesharing-stance/149765/23 "2003-01-21T21:56:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SC\_Wolf \* > \*\*The utter hypocracy of the ads is insulting to the general intelegence. \*\* Oh the irony. Hypocracy indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clear-channel-radio-networks-anti-filesharing-stance/149765/24 "2003-01-21T22:11:04Z")
Are you complaining about the “How many clicks does it take?” ad? I hate that one. Plus, the answer should be three, not one. They can’t even get that right! Those ads just make me steal more. Where is my eyepatch and parrot? ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clear-channel-radio-networks-anti-filesharing-stance/149765/25 "2003-01-21T22:39:46Z")
Tell me, what can I do to help destroy ClearChannel? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clear-channel-radio-networks-anti-filesharing-stance/149765/26 "2003-01-23T21:12:37Z")
[Looks like the courts](http://www.atnewyork.com/news/print.php/1572591) are lining up behind Clear Channel’s ally in the war against file-sharing, the RIAA. ---
**Author:** ![Vengeant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@Vengeant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vengeant)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clear-channel-radio-networks-anti-filesharing-stance/149765/27 "2003-01-24T00:45:44Z")
I’m just wondering why Clear Channel cares at all about piracy? The CCC stations we have here in L.A. don’t play any more than 40 songs each (at most). Are they actually afraid that people downloading these songs will get sick of the songs faster than hearing them at least 3 times on the radio per day? (I kid you not; I’ve heard the same songs more than 3 times _in the same day_ on a CCC station. What’s worse was the song sucked.) On a tangent, I can’t help but be reminded of the South Park episode “The Butters Show.” I can picture CCC saying something similar to OJ, Gary Condit, and the other guest stars on that ep: “Um, yeah, it’s obvious that our plummeting ratings is the result of ‘pirates,’ yeah, that’s it, ‘pirates,’ and we hope that these ‘pirates’ are brought to justice soon.” Vengeant -----_----- Lost souls of little understanding and fierce deeds rise as the enemies of the world for its destruction. – The Bhagavad Gita, 16:9 -----_----- [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clear-channel-radio-networks-anti-filesharing-stance/149765.md?page=1)