p2pnet - rss feed: WMG boss’ kids ’stole music’
p2pnet.net news:- Canada’s Edgar Bronfman, jr, chairman and ceo of the Warner Music Group, one of the Big Four Organized Music labels who are suing their customers for allegedly distributing digital music online, had a startling admission to make.
His own seven children, “stole music”.
“Using online music services to share songs without paying for them may be illegal, but casual users don’t usually find themselves under the steely gaze of an angry recording industry executive,” says Reuters. “Unless Dad is the head of Warner Music Group.”
Actually, thousands of people around the world do indeed find themselves under the “steely” eyes of “angry recording industry executives,” one such person being RaeJ Schwartz, the New York mother with Multiple Sclerosis.
Meanwhile, “We asked Edgar Bronfman, the head of the world’s fourth largest music company, at the Reuters Summit whether any of his seven kids stole music,” say Reuters.
“I’m fairly certain that they have, and I’m fairly certain that they’ve suffered the consequences,” Bronfman stated, going on:
“I explained to them what I believe is right, that the principle is that stealing music is stealing music. Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important. I can assure you they no longer do that.”
What did he do to them? - asked Reuters.
“I think I’ll keep that within the family.”
But why would Bronfman chastise his kids in the first place? Or were they uploading?
And if they were, will their names soon appear on court dockets?
CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America) owners Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG are spending millions of dollars trying to force changes to Canada’s copyright laws so the CRIA can sue Canadians in the same way the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is suing thousands of Americans.
They haven’t succeeded. So far. And although uploading copyrighted music is illegal in Canada, downloading it for private use isn’t.
Stay tuned.
Also See:
Reuters - The most dangerous download of all, December , 2006
Multiple Sclerosis - MS victim RaeJ vs the RIAA, December 3, 2006
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December 5th, 2006 at 12:17 am
I could imagine only two scenarios for his response to his kids]
1.’You little thieving bastards, how can you steal from me? It’s mine mine mine mine mine. All of it! I should have aborted you little bastards. One of you will be made an example of -
Alfredo,’
‘Yes, Papa?’
‘Get your fishing pole, get in the boat. You wont be coming back.’
-or (perhaps just as likely)-
‘is taking music from the internet stealing, daddy?’
‘Of course not, son. Laws are only for poor people. How many times do i have to tell you,being rich exempts of any missdeeds. the poor masses are owned by us, that’s why god makes poor people poor, and us so rich. It’s the natural order of things. Now help me take that dead prostitute out of the trunk so we can bury her with the rest.’
(it’s just satire, i hope. I don’t want to be sued)