New Canadian minister of heritage
p2pnet.net News:- Montreal-born Liza Frulla will have a lot to say on how far Big Music will get in its efforts to sue Canadians for sharing music online.
She’s the new minister of Canadian heritage in prime minister Paul Martin’s recently re-elected (only just) Liberal government.
As ‘Liza,’ she had a tv show on Radio-Canada.. She’s also worked for Labatt Breweries and the Vickers & Benson advertising agency and was vp of a private radio station.
With that kind of background, and given that her boss is on record as saying he thinks the music industry is part of Canada’s sovereignty, could it be that Frulla won’t be too far away from her predecessor, Hélène Chalifour Scherrer, who was ready to re-write Canada’s copyright laws to enable the Big Five record labels to open Canada and Canadians up to lawsuits?
If you have any thoughts on this, or on where the needs of the Big Five – oops, Big Four – record labels will rank on her agenda, please post them under comments or email us here.
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July 20th, 2004 at 7:43 pm
Frulla was NOT minister of culture and communications under Chretien. She was a provicial minister of culture and communications in Quebec.
July 20th, 2004 at 9:02 pm
Thanks for the correction. Cheers!
July 20th, 2004 at 9:30 pm
When I saw Paul Martin stand up and say that “Canadian” heritage had to be protected and spoke out against file sharing, the Liberal Party lost my vote. Up until the last election, I had voted Liberal each time.
Paul Martin can stick it! He’s lost my vote and evidently a lot of other people’s votes since the Liberals no longer have a majority government.
He wants to be butt buddies with big industries and screw the people. That’s fine, we’ll screw the Liberal Party right back.
July 20th, 2004 at 10:12 pm
Why do you need to wonder when you already know? What is more, you can be sure that the (c)RIAA have already arranged to “brief” her on the “truth” of file sharing. Will she need a little help here and there? If so, you know will be ready ………….
July 20th, 2004 at 10:17 pm
How often is it that P2P has had friends in high places, aside from level-headed judges? It’s always been a grassroots technology, perhaps to its own detriment at times. It doesn’t matter where she stands – the fight continues and the technology will not be overcome.
July 21st, 2004 at 6:48 pm
As a newcomer in this area could someone please explain to me how record companies can be expected to earn an appropriate rate of return for their shareholders and how artists can earn adequate incomes to live and continue to thrive as musicians if we continue to download songs for free? I understand there are issues regarding how much musicians actually do receive from every CD sold, but that seems to me to be something to be worked out between the two parties. If the musicians don’t like the arrangement they can go to the independents or try distributing their music directly. Since this is my first post here I am Anonymous but this site looks like it may be worth revisiting. BTW…I voted Liberal for the first time in my life this election…not because I was afraid of the Conservatives but because the Conservative Party hadn’t demonstrated to me that they yet deserved my vote under the new leadership.
July 22nd, 2004 at 1:13 am
P2P has the inherent danger of opening the door for “Big Brother”.
Any government wanting to exercise greater control over it’s citizens simply needs to find something common , make it illegal, or make it an issue if it’s already illegal , and then use that action to open loopholes in privacy laws.
Look for a combination of the millenium copyright act, and the patriot act: coming soon to a jack-booted cop near your home!
July 22nd, 2004 at 8:48 pm
Would you care to tell me how open P2P nets could hope to compete with a subscription music service at $9.95/mo, Unlimited song downloads, guaranteed quality, and great speeds?
They’d be marginalized in a week. Such a service would be great for everyone.
We’re not trying to destroy music, we’re trying to save it. The only way that’s going to happen is by empowering consumers, and through p2p they’ve empowered themselves. They want ON-DEMAND, FAST music. P2P gives them that, but it’s a pain in the ass with poisoned downloads and shoddy speeds.
Itunes is too expensive to catch hold at a fast clip. What we’re working towards is a cheaper Itunes, to give us what we want.