See Big Music in the Movies
p2pnet.net News:- p2pnet and Down Hill Battle want to see the Big Five record labels starring in their own movies.
So they’ve launched a site to make it happen.
Called Movies for Music, it’s an online film contest with the simple aim of giving the public a clear and honest look at the music industry as it really is.
The future of the Music Biz is up for grabs right now (like you haven’t heard). The Big Five record labels have had an unfair monopoly for decades but it’s finally starting to crumble, and you’ll find several examples in our music gallery here.
The problem is: the Big Music record labels are two years into a relentless PR / Propaganda campaign. Through their enforcement units around the world, the RIAA in the US being an example, they have to somehow convince the public that filesharing is criminal and that pop music would end if their monopoly falls.
In both cases, the opposite is true. But if the majors – Warner (US), EMI (UK), UMG (France), Sony (Japan) and BMG (Germany) – win the PR war and continue to use their political friends to advance legislation to make file-sharing a federal offense, their monopoly just might survive.
That’s where you come in.
We need to show people how the music industry really works, and convince them that now is the time to make things change. This isn’t a dream any more: the more that people learn about the organized corporate music industry, the less they want to keep it on life support. If the major labels collapse, payola will end, the filesharing lawsuits will stop, and unfair major label contracts will disappear.
Most importantly, independent music will finally have a level playing field.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So what’s a moving picture worth?
The right video or animation can illustrate these issues better than any other medium.
If you’re an amateur or pro movie-maker and you want to help continue the Decline and Fall of the Big Music Empire, head over to our site here.
June 15th, 2004 at 4:11 am
If there were some focus on the stories of people who download music, and how they are being hurt by the industry’s lawsuits, public opinion would shift in ways the industry knows will affect business. Let’s put a face on your common American – and now, European – victim, real people like you and me being attacked by these big companies. cholly.com
June 15th, 2004 at 1:46 pm
In fact its very simple. There is an agency issue. Management of the labels are agents of the shareholders. Their interests should be aligned with those of the shareholders but they are not. This is because the best interest of the shareholders is served by breaking up the labels. Consolidation has gone as far as possible and the old model is broken. The new model doesn’t need a big 5. It needs legal download services to be encouraged not stymied. This will reward the owners of catalogs, consumers, artists and those that develop them. It does not favour plastic pushers and those 5 with the critical mass to push plastic.
If focus was to be put on the fact that managers are not serving shareholders, then shareholders might act. This is what we should be doing. Its the Achilles heel of the industry and it’s time to play the card.
June 16th, 2004 at 7:04 pm
There a;ready exist a video which i believe can compete. It is south park episode 709, “Christian Rock Hard”. Watch it and you’ll learn while you laugh.