IFPI on the rampage in Finland
p2pnet.net news:- The IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) is again enlisting the help and co-operation of the mainstream media in its ongoing campaign against music lovers who are too smart to allow themselves to be ripped off by of its masters, Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG.
This time Finland is in the spotlight and once again, the Big 4 are using local police, funded by local taxpayers, as unpaid copyright cops, and the story is being picked up and regurgitated almost whole without any reference to the victims, or any attempt to verify claims being made by the IFPI.
Finnish police raided several suspected DirectConnect hubs in Turku, Oulu and Helsinki, says the IFPI.
Meanwhile, people around the world continue to share music with each other despite the efforts of the Big 4 to force them to use corporate back and supplied sites.
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Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local politicians. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance. Don’t just complain. Do something!
June 6th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
International Federation of Pornographic Industry
Well, they ARE obscene.