RIAA Christmas Message
p2pnet news view RIAA News:- It’s Christmas Day. But it’ll be far less enjoyable than it might have been for thousands of families not only in the US, but around the world, thanks to the mean-minded, mean-spirited Big 4 labels, Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US).
America’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is synonymous with lies and dirty dealings.
It’s front and centre among the many ‘trade’ associations used by the Big $ to deliver their messages of misery and thanks to the likes of Mitch Bainwol, Cary Sherman, Jonathan Lamy and Cara Duckworth, among other RIAA employees, music disks from the Big $ will be significantly absent from under America’s Christmas trees, not to mention Christmas trees from other parts of the globe.
When the Big 4 are whining grizzling about declining sales, they never say anything about losses due to the fact their sue ‘em all campaign means they’re haemorrhaging customers, whom they call file sharing criminals and thieves, left, right and centre.
We’re sure it’ll be even worse for them in the New Year when ever increasing numbers of music lovers will buy anything rather than copyrighted ‘product’ from Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US), or RIAA members.
For now, click here for the RIAA Christmas Message.
Cheers! And all the best …
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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December 25th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
What happened to ‘rest over the christmas period’? lol =P
Australian filter delayed till mid jan amid Denmark filter blacklists leaks
You know the Virgin Killer album? apparently the ‘action’ taked by the IWF has made it(the album pic and band) popular and spread it to other sites
December 25th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I think Peoples DNS Settings in Aus will be the Governments worst nightmare
How can you possibly filter the Net if the ISP you are working with are not in control of their customers DNS queries?
Not including encryption or proxies and Most SSL proxies these days are AES 256bits+
December 25th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Even in a the e-card, they still made sure to include the copyright info at the end for the ***1955*** song “Skating” that was used. (With 53 years having gone by, the artist(s) connected with it are probably not around to enjoy any of the royalties.)
What an awful, stressful world these *AAs must live in!
December 25th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Oh, almost forgot the most important point…..
MERRY CHRISTMAS, JON!
All the best in 2009!
December 25th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
and the Dark Knight wont be shown in China due to ‘cultural differences’
hmmm…
December 25th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Music, DVD and game retailer Zavvi UK called in administrators on the 24 of December 2008. Soon in the Uk you won’t have anyone to buy you music, films or games from. F**king great
December 25th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
“Music, DVD and game retailer Zavvi UK called in administrators on the 24 of December 2008. Soon in the Uk you won’t have anyone to buy you music, films or games from. F**king great”.
And why would you want to buy cartel controlled content from which the proceeds are used to sue, threaten, and intimidate children and single mothers? Do yourself a favour and visit piratebay.org or mininova.org
December 25th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Why not use their own reporting page to tell them exactly how you feel about them?
here: http://www.riaa.com/reportpiracy.php
don’t forget to add their own URL as pirate site ROFL
Enjoy
December 26th, 2008 at 1:06 am
I just read something interesting over on another blog, and I think people here (especially certain ersatz Seuss Character’s we all know and love) would find this interesting:
Utorrent now has 28 million monthly users.
Lessee here folks: Apologists for the copyright regime like to believe that p2p is a “temporary moral lapse” (rather than a global “passive resistance through technology” aimed squarely at corporate corruption). However, I find it really difficult to believe that 28 million users are all merely suffering a “temporary moral lapse”.
And that’s just ONE application.
Copy”Right” is a faustian bargain, in that the four multinational corporate “persons” comprising the RIAA dread the specter of such “protective” monopolies lapsing. They hate the “public domain”, and have done a pretty good job of brainwashing folks to believe that copyright is the “real” status of creations, when in fact, it’s exactly the opposite: it’s COPYRIGHT which was — and remains — the “temporary moral lapse”, Life plus 70 years is only a “limited time” in the sense that 10 millions years is a “limited” time.
To put it bluntly, world culture will NO LONGER ALLOW it. Idiotic blather about the “cell next to Daniel Dove” and pissy cracks about where I live notwithstanding, it’s impossible for the “powers that be” to actually “win” this one on behalf of their corporate cronies.
And that’s a good thing. The fact is, in the RIAA’s “business model” — the “Recording industry” we all hear so much about these days — only a vanishingly small subset of prepackaged “content” will ever achieve anything remotely resembling “fame” or “success”.
The “mega-star” celebrity is the creation of huge corporations which, up until relatively recently, controlled EVERY meaningful distribution-channel. Newspapers, television and radio, record stores — all of it firmly within their grasp. Thus, they were able to create or suppress whatever “trends” they wanted, and become amazingly wealthy and politically-connected as a result.
Nowadays, a few things have changed:
1. Milli Vanilli demonstrated conclusively that the “major labels” don’t “help” talent or “groom” art, so much as MANUFACTURE it. The mere fact of having pawned “Rob and Fab” off on the buying public as “artists” constituted a giant “fuck you” to the very buying public they depend on for their wealth. One of those no-talent cretins is dead now, and from what I can piece together, the other’s been vainly trying to ressurect the tattered scraps of his former “stardom” to no avail.
2. Jack(off) Valenti’s froth-dribbling idiocy comparing the VCR to the Boston Strangler proved once and for all that the RIAA actively HATE innovation — unless they can manage to “control” such innovations so as to “corner the market”. Back then, VCRs were seen as a dire threat to their “business model” and — like any good “capitalist” in our glorious “Free Enterprise” system — they sought to have them banned.
NOW, VCRs and DVD players are the centerpieces of a “vital revenue stream”.
In short, the RIAA are lying vermin, and we shouldn’t believe anything they say.
3. The Internet — single best communications channel in history — represents an even greater revolution than the printing-press, in that it’s now possible for virtually anybody to disseminate “content” at negligible cost, planet-wide.
Further, digital formats demonstrate that the (overpriced) plastic discs the “major labels” want us to buy are nothing more than a “delivery system” for what we REALLY want — the audio/visual content.
Further, the fact that the SAME COMPANIES who are suing their own customers make a hell of a lot of money from selling us the blank discs, CD burner drives and “ripping” programs indicates — let’s be charitable here — something of a “mixed message”.
If Sony and the other RIAA member corporations hate the idea of the Great Unwashed Masses having the ability to “rip mix and burn”, then they should stop selling us the technological means to do so.
But there’s the rub. Thanks to the (ostensibly) “capitalist” system upon which they depend and from which they gain their wealth and power, they CAN’T AFFORD TO DO SO. If Sony didn’t sell us DVD burners, somebody else would.
(That’s why that idiot Valenti did what any “good little capitalist” does when confronted with competiton: went squealing to the government like the evil little pig he was.)
They managed to “break” the DVD by mandating “region coding”, and their dedicated teams of codemonkeys are doubtless hard at work trying to figure out how to “break” the next generation of “content delivery system” in hopes that we all turn into vegetative little “consumers” once more.
It ain’t gonna happen.
Vista’s “unbreakable” bullshit was cracked in, what, a month?
The Megacorps are in a bind: how do they train and recruit the next generation of R&D Drones while keeping the rest of the populace ignorant and passive in regard to the technology which surrounds us all?
They had to exempt so-called “professional” audio gear from various DMCA provisions for a reason, people: like the guilds of old, THEY want to believe they can control the world (or at least their particular niche). They also need to keep up the fiction that they give a shit about creativity or “art” — that “signing” with them is all that different from becoming a Wal-Mart greeter. They can’t afford to inconvenience the people who REALLY MAKE music or movies too severely, or those who REALLY CREATE AND INNOVATE will start pressuring lawmakers to change things, and/or SIMPLY SHOVE ODIOUS LAWS OUT OF THE WAY.
They know it’s logistically impossible to prosecute millions of poeple scattered planet-wide. They ALSO know that people are waking up to the REAL nature, purpose, and harmfulness of current IP “law”.
Patents and copyright are under increasing scrutiny. Corporate “personhood” — especially in light of recent events — is set to become the “hot button issue” of the next few years.
Put bluntly, the jig is up.
They know they’re lying, WE know they’re lying, and — importantly — we’re not backing down.
That’s my Christmas wish, folks — that we — ALL of the millions of people all across the globe — continue to make life hell for the RIAA and any other corporate lobbybots who can’t learn their place.
December 26th, 2008 at 1:51 am
“Music, DVD and game retailer Zavvi UK called in administrators on the 24 of December 2008. Soon in the Uk you won’t have anyone to buy you music, films or games from.”
Not fucking great. Just great. We don’t need parasites in our society. It’s mean we don’t need Vivendique Univers-sale, We don’t need any Sony BMG or EMI or Time warner and others RIAA and MPAA bag of virulent pathogens.
Step one: Get ride of them! Almost complete.
Step Two replace them. The step two will be even easier. No offence but their is a lot of great and promissing candidates.
The old criminal music recording cartel members have to make room for the artistic explosion of the 21st century!
GET OUT OF OUR FUCKING WAY!
December 26th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
WARNING!!!::: Do _NOT_ “…click here for the RIAA Christmas Message”!
At least not until you check out what WOT has to say about that site. Here’s the WOT link:
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/riaa.com
JON, you really do need to get Firefox and install the WOT add-on so you can protect your readers from things like this.
December 26th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
^^ Done.
Cheers!