P2P. People Power.
p2pnet news | Freedom:- Once upon a time, EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and Warner Music (US) had everything their own way.
They completely dominated corporate music sales around the world; dictated what was said about which artist, and in which print amd/or media outlet; fixed prices (take that anyway you want); bribed radio hosts and other DJs to make sure their product, and only their product, got a listen; organised junket trips for politicians so they’d say the right things at the right times; and so on.
However, this was BTN – Before The Net.
No doubt the labels were suing people for sharing music with each other even back then, but nobody got to hear about it.
Then came the Net and the incompetents who run the major labels rushed to greet it as a wonderful new, God-given tool with which to terrorise people into buying corporate product.
Enter the bizarre sue ‘em all marketing campaign.
But rather than driving music lovers into the avaricious arms of the Big 4 organise music cartel members, the war against P2P file sharers has served only to alienate millions upon millions of people and create a brand new consumer base of men, women and children who are indeed desperate – desperate to stay away from any thing to do with Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG.
Cause célèbre
When the Big 4 launched their campaign, one of the first people they singled out to victimise in public was Patti Santangelo.
That didn’t work and the case became, and still is, a cause célèbre.
Patti stood up to the Big 4 and won. And now two of her five children have become targets.
Another early victim was Tanya Andersen, a disabled single mother living in Oregon.
Like Patti, she decided she wasn’t about to let the billion-dollar bullies win, fighting them every step of the way.
She recently turned the tables on them, naming their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) in the first-class action of its kind.
The RIAA and its masters thought they’d found a marvellous PR propaganda blitz weapon in the Net.
However, they were wrong.
Again.
Rather, it’s showing them up for the vicious and unprincipled corporate cowards they are, allowing people everywhere to penetrate the lies and fabrications which before the Net allowed the lamescream media to offer up, unquestioned, every utterance as though it was accurate information from credible and reliable sources.
Knowledge Rulz
Before the arrival of blogs, news sites, texting, IM and other forms of instant communication, the entertainment cartels could get away with just about anything because they owned the media the average person depended upon.
But that’s no longer true.
Patti and Tanya’s cases have remained steady at the top of p2pnet’s most-read items since Day One. But p2pnet is by no means the only online publication which covers the stories.
Tanya’s decision to sue the RIAA has made headlines around the world, off- as well as online, something which never would, or could, have happened before the Net.
I just did a quick search and here are some, but by no means all, of the examples of electronic coverage.
The cartels are finding out knowledge and the ability to share it is the new currency of the world. And they’ve bankrupted themselves.
They still need us, but we no longer need them.
P2PP. People to People Power.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/08/tanya-anderson-.html
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/08/tanya-andersen-brings-class-action.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070817-riaa-faces-first-class-action-suit.html
http://slashdot.org/
http://svextra.com/blogs/gmsv/2007/08/quoted-614.html
http://www.sivacracy.net/2007/08/class_action_against_the_riaa.html
http://braggg.com/?p=5
http://themonsterjam.com/blog/?p=10
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/94513
http://idolator.com/tunes/get-the-popcorn/-290658.php
http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=501662
http://www.theregister.com/2007/08/17/riaa_anderson_class_action_lawsuit/
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2007/08/17/woman-files-class-action-against-riaa-over-p2p-lawsuits
http://www.forumopolis.com/showthread.php?t=57653
http://www.techspot.com/
http://news.dmusic.com/article/27353
http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/08/17/anti.riaa.class.action/
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/38737
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/7017/
http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2007/08/13/david_v_goliath_or_cowboys_vs_cartel.php
http://www.thecherrycreeknews.com/content/view/1530/2/
http://www.addict3d.org/news/179672/Tonya%20Andersen%20Trying%20To%20Turn%20Her%20Lawsuit%20Against%20The%20RIAA%20Into%20A%20Class%20Action
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_6656711?source=rss
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070625162738896
http://www.mp3.com/features/stories/9815.html
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070817/012924.shtml
http://www.libervis.com/article/tanya_andersen_sues_the_riaa
http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/3/1/468031C6023A6131/
http://tailrank.com/2438236/Tanya-Anderson-Files-Class-Action-Suit-Against-the-RIAA
http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MjY1NjYsLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE=
http://consumerist.com/consumer/worst-company-in-america/class-action-status-requested-for-malicious-prosecution-suit-against-riaa-290932.php
http://www.azoz.com/topics/lawsuits.html
http://larrytheopensourceguy.wordpress.com/tag/tanya-andersen/
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32634/118/
http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2007/08August/MusicNews-44-RIAA.htm
http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=6625
http://jasonjeffrey.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/riaa-faces-possible-class-action-over-suing-the-innocent/
http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2007/08/riaa-faces-class-action-lawsuit-for.html
http://www.nixguy.com/?p=2875
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=123792
http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2007/08/corporate_carte.html?source=rss?source=NLC-NOTES&cgd=2007-08-20
http://www.tt-hardware.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10754
http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=5772
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13077
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_6709778
http://www.electricsamurai.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10482
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/29/ap4065797.html
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August 30th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Your list is by no means a complete one. I know of other sites, not in your list that carry the stories as well. You would get tired of all the c & p just to put in the links of sites.
It does demonstrate one of the items that I mention from time to time about the public media no longer being the sole source of information. Also that those information sites are extremely bias with an eye towards their own self interest and bottom line protection. In the last 6 or 7 years I’ve become particurally senstive to this information filter that doesn’t allow us to read the real story, straight from the horse’s mouth (so to say) with the bias missing. To quote an old movie line, “just the facts” without a strong leaning towards coloring the story not as it is but rather as it is wished to be presented and with what favored opinion the source wishes to impart.
Because of that, there is not much I get from the public media anymore. Simply their self-interest overpowers their being a source of straight, unvarnished, and revalent news. I don’t care what Paris Hilton did or what the latest antics of Britney might be. They don’t affect my world, my need to know, nor do they peek my interest beyond a minimum passing fancy.
What I do care about is what’s happening in the world today that will affect my life in the next few years. Be that laws, be that political actions, or maybe why the cost of products go up while my income does not attempt to match the same pace as the economy around me that increases its rate of inflation as examples. Little of those I see little in the public media gets down to the nitty gritty revalent information that I can use anymore. It was at one time that reporter investigations of behind closed door events were exposures of what you needed to know. If anyone has taken notice, those special investigations are all but gone with the few remaining done with very little attempt to hide the bias. Now you see the recopy and regurgitation of syndicated articles presented as news. Mostly they are corporate news releases, feel good stories with little to do with anyone’s life, or blatent attempts at influancing and altering public opinion in favor of what ever stance the sponsors of these media deem important to their own financial well being but of no interest to the public at large.
I notice that I am not the only one forming this opinion if the surveys from advertisement houses are a guide. They use those surveys to determine where they will invest there annual budget for the coming year. For the last few years TV, commercial radio, newspapers, and printed magazines are all taking losses as they lose readership and subscription base. People are leaving their offered products for something else. The advertising budgets are taking note of this and shifting their areas of investment as well. It all looks to be headed for the new field of the internet and leaving traditional media behind.
So one must ask why this is happening.
I suggest to you there are several reasons, that it isn’t just one thing that is leading people to abandon the traditional in favor of the internet. One I’ve already mentioned above. Others are that information you seek can be found, unlike browsing a newspaper where all you read is what is in print for the day. Another is that there are sources of information far beyond what traditional media can muster. A reporter of current news, as it happens, can only do so from the scene. Someone must be physically present to get the story as it happens. There is only one reporter per event and without advance notice to get all the equipment in place, a live feed necessary for a TV broadcast isn’t possible as a “currently happening” event. But people are everywhere. No matter what is happening, no matter where in the world the event is taking place, no matter what the subject, someone is near by even if they are not a reporter. These show up on the net as first hand, on the spot, informed people who know what they see. While it is true you get tons of BS in the process, there are just as many you would never have known happened without these reports.
The movie The Fight Club pretty much expressed it in the idea we are your servants, your delievery men, or insert whatever title you wish in there. Because of this, the cartels are having a hard time covering up their dirty tactics without it becoming known to every man, woman, and child that has interest in the subject. So no longer can they hide the news from the public. The best they can hope for is spin that makes it look good or maybe damage control after the fact of the dirty deal becoming public. It’s not a matter of if but of when.
The public that these cartels depend on for their livelyhood are getting an eyeful as well as an earful. They are forming their own opinions and it doesn’t look good for the cartels. Even with their paid trolls out trying to recoup some of the damage of all sorts of news being exposed, it is very little they can say that speaks for those actions with any justification whatever. The typical responce is an attack of some nature on the poster or reprint but not being able to really defend those actions is evident by their tactics, which are for the most part, hit and run because they can’t stand the heat of the kitchen. Don’t think it isn’t seen for just what it is. Nor believe for a moment that the opinions formed by these methods are not further reinforced by such tactics.
It has certianly been an eyeopener for me. I now spend with these informed opinions. I know as well I’m not the only one. So continue to blame it all on piracy as the cartels continue to sail down the whirlpool of the toilet. Blaming the wrong thing won’t fix the problem. More and more of the public are as content to see it the same way. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
August 30th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Yeah, the cartels are saying that it is because of piracy that their sales are falling….but what about when they make a DECENT movie or song and their sales go through the roof?
You don’t see them complaining much then…..
August 30th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Has anyone taken a look at the SEC filings of the Big 4? That would certainly show the truth, because you can get in some major shit for lying to the SEC about the state of your company.
August 30th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/default.aspx?cik=1319161
Here are the SEC filings for Warner Music. Note that the recent 10-Q filing mentions a LOT of factors other than “digital piracy.”
August 31st, 2007 at 1:27 am
The 7 corporations that control the movies, the traditional media and the music still believe that if it is not on TV nobody know about it. What a pack of old foggy retards! Many people these days get their news from internet so when they put out all the crap they are capable off in dishonesty, lies and extortions and when they spend their time as parasites every one know about it. The result is they are dying. And the worst is still to come.