Fighting a ‘war’ that’s already lost
p2pnet news view Politics | P2P:- Will Barack Obama’s new DoJ have to change its name to the Department of Injustice after the influx of corporate (notably RIAA) heavies?
A lot of people are asking that with apologists saying the lawyers inserted into the system are basically good guys who can be counted on to do the right thing, affiliations and apparent vested interests notwithstanding.
And that vice-president Joe Biden, a long-time, and highly enthusiastic, entertainment cartel supporter, now has more on his plate to worry about than corporate copyright issues.
But p2pnet frequent poster and contributor Henry Emrich has another view.
“Let’s have some perspective here, y’all,”" he says in a Reader’s Write, going on »»»
The US Economy is staggering drunkenly toward collapse (Corporate ‘Capitalism’ busily Enronning us all into the ground).
The ‘War on Terror’ is a colossal flop (yeah baby, significant chance for a nuclear/biological attack on United States soil by 2013 == win!)
Eight years of swaggering, punch-in-the-face ‘diplomacy’ and (failed) attempts at nation-building coupled with a near-total disregard for human rights (Gitmo, anyone?) ensures that the word ‘Ugly’ will probably precede the word ‘American’ for a hell of a long time to come.
Dare I mention a significant proportion of the population’s unwillingness to vote for a guy based on HIS MIDDLE NAME?
The ‘War on Piracy’ will go exactly the same way as the ‘War on Terror’/'War on Drugs’:
Namely, complete inability to actually do anything other than inconvenience a relatively small subset of the populace at any given time.Hell, I personally think it’s a GOOD thing the RIAA and their dumb-as-dogshit cronies are blustering. I mean, think about it: if they’d actually taken the sensible approach back during the Napster era, then people would probably think ’signing’ with them was a good thing. THey’d probably still be seen as socially-relevant taste-makers/Trend-setters/whatever you call it.
If they’d played nice during the Napster era, most people would never have heard Valenti’s idiotic ‘Boston Strangler’ quote.
Please remember: it’s NOT what ‘laws’ are on the books that ultimately counts.
It’s which laws they can afford to ‘enforce’.ow much manpower do you REALLY think they have to devote to yet another ‘crusade’ — let alone one explicitly dedicated to shoring up a bunch of morally-bankrupts, money-grubbing, multinational corporate megaliths. (Oh wait, scratch that — the banks and auto makers got their FIRST!)
Seriously, folks: the p2p ‘movement’ is global, it’s pervasive, and further ham-fisted fumbling by the RIAA/their tool-puppets in Government can only serve to wake more people up.]
Examine Youtube: ou REALLY think DMCA takedown notices ’stop’ anything?
The thing may get taken down for a few days, but eventually twenty or thirty others upload it again.
This isn’t looking ‘pretty grim’: it’s just more waste-motion fighting a ‘war’ that’s already been lost.
Stay tuned.
change its name – RIAA gang at the DoJ, February 9, 2009
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February 10th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Manpower? If you get to noticing writeups, the reason that the RIAA liked MediaSentry was most of it was automated. They didn’t have to pay a huge payroll for employees because there weren’t a lot of them. A computer program did the ip recording, the search, etc. and only when matches were made was there the likelihood that a person got involved. After that it was back to automation until the extortion center got involved. That’s what they liked about it. There were no mouths to speak of to blab what and how they were doing it.