No Jon, I don’t think we’re still buying the “cookie cutter crap” (ccc), but a small element who want this and can’t find it online or don’t have access to a PC and whose parents can afford it seem to be. Maybe they just need educating in file sharing.

all I know is that the time is right, the time for action is needed, it is now!

Nearly as horrifically amusing as the BBC article earlier this year about some minister ’suggesting’ proposals in the near future that *might* make copying a CD to a computer legal. I sometimes wonder how anyone in the government can turn their computer on in the morning if they’re that technologically unaware.

I have a small weep every time I hear anyone in authority say the words ‘copyright’ and ‘infringement’ in the same sentence.

Already happening here.
Those lawsuits aren’t throwing up any red flags at all.
Nothing is going to throw up a red flag if the US media DOES NOT REPORT IT TRUTHFULLY.
It doesn’t.

” The “pay us or else you can’t hear or disseminate the free speech you’d like to” probably would throw up all kinds of red flags in the US. Or at least I like to think it would. ”

That’s becuase it’s being masked as a crusade against piracy to ‘protect the artist’ .
When people recognize that as bullshit, it becomes a crusade against ‘kiddie porn’.
No one wants to look like they support that, right ?

The US media is marketing such control in a way that no one notices.

In the US we are very used to losing rights as well.. some of them we won’t notice till its to late.

It’s very nearly too late.

Absolutely.
Time and time again, numbers like the ones for this film prove that internet access to
‘previews’ of these films make NO difference.
The Harvard/Yale study proved that downloading has NO EFFECT on sales.

The ‘piracy’ crap is just a smokescreen to insure that all artists, if they want to have anything more
than a limited local presence, MUST go through the labels as gatekeepers. This is even to the point
where harware manufacturers are pressured to cripple features that could allow someone to use their
PC as a home recording studio, ( the dell disabled stereo mix, attempts to plug analog access on pc’s .. etc.. )

They urgently need to bring the internet … a potential GLOBAL distribution system, under their control.
The government helps them, not only because of bribes, but because they too have a vested interest in
controlling information. Just look at the part the internet played in the US primaries.
Politicians need this door closed, and they’ll use whatever rallying cry is convenient.
The fact that the cartels will pay them for it as well is icing on the cake.

Nope. I’m very pissed.

It wouldn’t take much to put things right — a little goodwill on the part of the labels and studios and a willingness to treat their customers as reasonable people who’ll behave reasonably if they’re given half a chance.

But this is about control, nothing else. And the cartels have made it plain they’ll settle for nothing less.

Cheers!

…and the Charity Government Tax that they give them and all the lawsuits

Suffering? Oh Please

Sad, Much?