p2pnet news | Music:- Lindsay McDougall, guitarist with Australian punk group Frenzal Rhomb, says he’s furious at being scammed into an anti-piracy puff flick produced by the Big 4 organised music cartel.

McDougall, also a radio presenter at Triple J, told the Sydney Morning Herald he’d been “lumped in with this witch hunt” and, “completely taken out of context and defamed” by the Australian music industry, which funded the video.

He’d been told the 10-minute film, being blatantly pumped out to high schools in Australia, “was about trying to survive as an Australian musician and no one mentioned the video would be used as part of an anti-piracy campaign,” according to the story, which goes on:

“Sabiene Heindl, general manager of the music industry’s anti-piracy arm, Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI), which partly coordinated the film and is pushing for it to be included in school units related to copyright and file sharing, said all of the feedback she had received so far from other artists and their managers had been positive.

She, “questioned whether McDougall had actually watched the film and said only 1-2 minutes of it discussed the issue of downloading and how it impacted musicians.”

“I have never come out against internet piracy and illegal downloading and I wouldn’t do that,” the SMH has McDougall angrily declaring, going on

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I would never put my name to something that is against downloading and is against piracy and stuff, it’s something that I believe is a personal thing from artist to artist.

I would never be part of this big record industry funded campaign to crush illegal downloads, I’m not like [Metallica drummer] Lars Ulrich. I think it’s bullshit, I think it’s record companies crying poor and I don’t agree with it.

I don’t think i’m going to sue anyone but I would say that already this morning people’s opinion of me has been lowered,” McDougall said.

I’m from a punk rock band, it’s all about getting your music out any way you can - you don’t make money from the record, the record companies make the money from the record. If they can’t make money these days because they haven’t come onside with the way the world is going, it’s their own problem.

Click here to see the flick.

Meanwhile, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s Aussie movie is just another element in a carefully orchestrated, worldwide campaign to poison the minds of young people from toddlers up.

They’re being barraged by non-stop print, sound and video ‘educational’ propaganda aimed at turning them into compliant corporate consumers, the younger the better, while the Big 4 strive desperately to gain control of how, and by whom, music is distributed online.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Musician ‘duped’ into anti-piracy video, May 1, 2008

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