The big problem when you get into the copyright interests are that they quite willingly make up BS data to assist in getting what they want. They have no moral guides beyond their own self interests. When ever I see them trying to take the moral high road, I wind up snickering because time after time they have shown what they are really about. When you hear them talking about some topic that doesn’t agree with their line of thought, there is all this BS in the way. When you hear them after a bill or to get some action done, again it is mostly BS with a heavy dose of money thrown in.

When it gets time to act is when you see what they are really about. They are mean, nasty, and have no earthly idea of what the words moral mean. To them it means only what they are after and what ever it takes to support that idea. Truth doesn’t have anything to do with it.

Let me give you an example of one of the alphabet soup organizations. Take any one of them and their actions will be about the same, give or take a little because they all get their marching orders from the same source as their operating budget, the home office.

SGAE, the Spanish equivalent of the RIAA, gate crashed a wedding, illegally and uninvited in order to determine if they were owed performance royalties in Dec. They were fined $82,000 for their misdeeds.

Last month a group of 52 artists (if I remember my numbers correctly) donated a song they made for charity to assist the earthquake victims in Italy. SGAE immediately wanted their 10% cut. Evidently they don’t do charity for anyone. When the song made it to P2P they made a big stink about downloading and how downloaders would not donate to the charity drive, despite the fact that SGAE wasn’t going to contribute a dime of what they see as their earnings out of the take. They complained to Italy and got the law enforcement arm of copyright to seek out the uploaders, all three of them.

It’s only one minor set of actions by one group out of all of them worldwide in a four month span that made the news and all of them have about the same scruples. While they are doing great on the movie, tv, and video side, they have fell victim to their own greed on the album side through various mismanagement actions. Blaming P2P would not change a thing if P2P were outlawed tomorrow and everyone miraculously quit file sharing all at once. They would still have the same problems and that scapegoat missing would be the only change.

No one in the world can fix stupid when it is management and controls corporations.

Now take a heaping spoonful and swallow it (holding nose if needed), like everyone in the MSM gladly does.