p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- If everyone online contributed, say, $1,000, we’d probably have enough cash available to build a spaceship, fly to the Moon and build a new city.

We could call it P2Pia.

Because with the entertainment cartels now controlling governments and politicians around the world, there’s no reason for anyone with any intelligence to want to stay on Earth.

In the latest travesty whereby a senior elected government official is plainly kowtowing to Hollywood and the Big 4 record labels, there’s a, “need for further regulation to help tackle piracy,” says Billboard.

But this isn’t real piracy — you know, the one where brigands with machine-guns commandeer vessels on the high seas? It’s the phony corporate entertainment cartel version.

Now, British MP Alan Johnson, the current secretary of state for health who’s also, “tipped as a possible prime minister, should Gordon Brown vacate the position,” has sidled up alongside Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, and Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music.

He has, “extensive dealings with the music industry during his stint as secretary of state for education and skills in 2006, and his ministerial post at the department of trade and industry in 1999,” says the story.

Ah SO!

“Music is better now in terms of variety and choice; music is everywhere because of the Internet,” Billboard has him saying, “comparing today’s business with his youthful days in the 1960s, when music media was restricted to the public broadcaster BBC and pirate radio.

“But that has caused you so many problems because governments and regulators have not kept pace,” he declared.

Fear not, however — “We don’t want the dark days of piracy, but we’re now back in a period where people see the need for regulation, but with a light touch to allow for competition,” he said.

Phewww! Thanks Heavens!
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Billboard – Govt Minister Backs ‘Regulation’ To Tackle Piracy , June 3, 2009