How ‘illegal’ becomes ‘criminal’
p2pnet.net News:- The ongoing worldwide crackdown on illegal online music-sharing is highlighting the need for companies to detect and shut down unauthorized peer-to-peer activities on their networks."
That’s the intro in a COMPUTERWORLD story here that was triggered by an announcement from one of Big Music’s pseudo police agencies – the IFPI.
It goes on:
"This week, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) launched criminal cases against scores of individuals for illegally sharing copyrighted music on P2P networks in Canada, Germany, Italy and Denmark.
And it’s a perfect example of exactly how the entertainment industry has been able to turn file sharing into a criminal offence in the eyes of horrifying large section of the mainstream media and the general public.
What the announcement actually says is that the IFPI has launched, "the first wave of international lawsuits charging individuals with illegally file-sharing copyrighted music".
June 2nd, 2004 at 3:53 am
musicians spend a lot of time and money creating their music so morally its wrong to steal their music period ! however any signed to any label has had it stolen already lol
but it’s not criminal on the part of the individuals who are being used as scapegoats by self empowered giant yet scared corporations who are losing their grip on their long held empire.
who need a record deal anyway? these people will be history soon!
How many artists really make it BIG worldwide per year er 10? 50?
better off putting your wage packet on a 100/1 outsider everyweek for 75 years.naw! musicians should control their own product by utilising the technology available to us all and sell to the public directly via their own or independent outlets and websites.
Tin Pan alley is dead long live the revolution
Anomomous coward aka sidders – http://www.nessmp3.com