RIAA claims of ISP support: equine excreta
p2pnet news view | Mobiles:- “We are not working with them on this,” Verizon spokeswoman Ellen Yu told Wired categorically.
Comcast, “declined to comment, and referred inquiries to the National Cable & Telecommunications Association” whereupon, “The group’s vice president, Brian Dietz, said he could not confirm any deals …” The NCTA, “represents dozens of cable internet providers,” said the story.
AT&T, “declined comment through a spokesman,” and Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Charter Communications, “did not return repeated phone calls for comment”.
Hmmmmm. Strange, that. Because just before Christmas, “After years of persecuting and terrorising thousands of innocent families and their children across the United States, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG are trying another way to to force people to use their ‘product’,” said p2pnet.
Their RIAA is, “set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy,” said the Wall Street Journal, going on »»»
The trade group said it has hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs under which it will send an email to the provider when it finds a provider`s customers making music available online for others to take.
Depending on the agreement, the ISP will either forward the note to customers, or alert customers that they appear to be uploading music illegally, and ask them to stop. If the customers continue the file-sharing, they will get one or two more emails, perhaps accompanied by slower service from the provider. Finally, the ISP may cut off their access altogether.
AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Charter Communications.
Surely this group represents the principal US providers, does it not?
And yet not one of these major ISPs felt able to confirm the bald, unequivocal RIAA statement that it’d “hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs”.
“All I can tell you right now is that we have an agreement on principle with several leading ISPs but not all, and the agreement on principle is confidential,” Wired has RIAA spokeswoman Cara Duckworth said in an e-mail.
Hmmmmm.
“The RIAA is abandoning its strategy of suing individual file-swappers, and shifting towards ISP-level enforcement against infringers,” said Digital Music News, going on »»»
That was trumpeted by major labels over the pre-Christmas weekend, but a closer look reveals rather flimsy deals with ISPs, at least for now. We have agreements with some leading ISPs, RIAA executive Jonathan Lamy vaguely told Digital Music News on Monday, December 22nd, without naming names.
But not all. And the agreements are on principle.
In short, it’s typical RIAA equine excreta with the mainstream media happily galloping along without any pretence of questioning its veracity.
“As the Big $ sun sinks slowly in the west, the labels are watching their hitherto unassailable positions as Masters of the Music Universe inexorably disintegrating,” said p2pnet yesterday, continuing »»»
At the close of the first decade of the 21st century, the RIAA has fired MediaSentry, its grossly inefficient private eye which provided the evidence used by the RIAA to pillory thousands of men, women and children.
The Big 4 extortion unit also says it`s going to stop suing people.
But we know that isn`t true. In fact, the Wall Street Journal story which follows up p2pnet`s report that the Big 4 extortion unit has dispensed with MediaSentry`s `services,` says it, still plans to closely monitor people it believes are illegally uploading copyrighted music, and continue with the legal action it already has in progress. It says it will still file lawsuits for exceptional cases.
In other words, their latest scheme is just more BS from the masters of BS, and it`ll have only one goal – to force the embryo internet music business into a prison with the Big 4, and only the Big 4, as the wardens.
To succeed, they have to gain complete and exclusive control of every aspect of online music delivery, including how people everywhere find `product,` just as they do offline, and they`ll stop at absolutely nothing to achieve that.
“Sources close to the negotiations said the ISPs were resistant to participating until New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office approached them during the summer to hammer out an antipiracy solution,” says Reuters.
It’s more than ironic. It’s farcical.
“2008 is almost over and in what has to be the biggest-ever of Big 4 music label PR scams, eclipsing even their sue `em all marketing campaign, they say they`ll stop suing their own customers,” p2pnet said shortly after the RIAA initiated its fallacious We Won’t Sue ‘Em All gambit.
We continued »»»
Enlisting the major on- and offline print and electronic media as unpaid PR pumps, with Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal as the principal mouthpiece and New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo as coordinator, Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music(US) are now touting ISPs as corporate copyright cops.
In the WSJ, they say their Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will, try an approach that relies on the cooperation of Internet-service providers.
The newspaper doesn`t say if the RIAA is paying Cuomo for his services, or if New York taxpayers are subsidising him on behalf of the Big $ labels.
If the former, surely that`s a serious breach of New York laws, and if the latter, shouldn`t Cuomo resign on the grounds he can`t possibly represent the people who elected him when he`s also acting in vested corporate interests?
The Big Questions now are:
- Will the new American president, Barack Obama, allow Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US, but controlled by a Canadian) to continue perverting American court systems and making a complete mockery of judicial processes?
- Will he step in and force the non-American music labels to redress the terrible injuries they’ve caused thousands of innocent American families across the nation?
We’re also wondering if the woman in the video below may have been one of the journalists contacted by Duckworth or Lamy.
Stay tuned.
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January 6th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
“equine excreta”
Brilliant and great video!
January 6th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
AWESOME !!!! And so true!
January 6th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
The first ISP who dare to go along with the RIAA parasites will be boycotted to death and excluded from internet.
They know that.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
“The first ISP who dare to go along with the RIAA parasites will be boycotted to death and excluded from internet.”
absolutely, verifiable confirmed confirmation…
I even went so far as to call my provider and explain to THEM that ANY agreement with the letters RIAA on them, and I would instantly be an ex-customer, to which they emphatically denied any association with them (MAFIAA).
ps. fantastic video, great article !
January 6th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Poo Poo on the head……What has that got to do with ISP’s?…..Didnt want to watch the rest of the crap i just dont see how the poo poo vid fits in with all this…???????
January 6th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
It looses in the translation
January 7th, 2009 at 1:00 am
I even went so far as to call my provider and explain to THEM that ANY agreement with the letters RIAA on them, and I would instantly be an ex-customer, to which they emphatically denied any association with them (MAFIAA). ”
I tend to think there IS an agreement.
The ISP’s KNOW what will happen if their customers find out about it BEFORE it takes effect.
That’s why they don’t want to talk about it until it is too late for anyone to do anything about it.
They need to make sure ALL of the ISP’s go along with it. Until then, they will deny everything.
Once all of the ISP’s are on the same page, we will get shafted.
It won’t work unless all of the ISP’s agree, because of the potential loss of customers.
They want to be certain that we have nowhere else to go.
Talks ARE in progress, I am certain.