Big Music Spanish triumph
p2pnet news view Music:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, the Big 4 record labels, are trumpeting about a new triumph.
Except it’s a new outrage.
In what they’re calling a “major operation” involving scores of national police, they’ve busted a bunch of (wait for it) juke boxes.
Spanish law enforcement officer’s, acting as unpaid korporate kopyright kops, raided bars using, “unlicensed video jukeboxes in the region of Extremadura,” says the IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry).
And there’s more.
“Around 100 officers from six police stations inspected 47 bars in the area over the course of 12 hours, seizing 25 jukeboxes,” says the story.
“Police also raided the firm that supplied the copyright infringing machines and arrested the firm’s administrator.”
And guess who’ll foot the bill for the “major operation”?
Spanish taxpayers.
Spanish National Police were, “supported in the Extremadura operation by technical experts from AGEDI [Spanish music licensing company] and officers from the Senior Police Headquarters of Extremadura,” says the IFPI proudly.
Every day, around the world, scarce police resources are squandered on entertainment cartel bidnes while actions calling for genuine police enforcement go unnoticed.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
July, 2009
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July 23rd, 2009 at 10:03 am
100 officers .. cause the jukebox might run?
.. or cause they are really tricky to hand cuff?
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:10 am
They can be quite heavy I suppose – it might take 4 officers to lift one jukebox!
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:12 am
In Canada they would just taser the boxes to death.
July 23rd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
“scarce police resources are squandered on entertainment cartel bidnes”
Good! While they keep the police busy with these we can raid the properties of the entertainment executives and their lawers.
Let’s ranksake and torch their homes, jack their cars and empty their bank acpte!
July 23rd, 2009 at 2:29 pm
@Wenda:
LMFAO!
July 23rd, 2009 at 7:37 pm
I wonder how many car-jackings, armed robberies and domestic violence incidents occurred during that 12 hour laugh-a-thon.
you just can’t make this shit up! arresting jukeboxes!?!
heheheh, CNN Reports, ’suspected criminal jukebox taser’ed fleeing the scene of a song playing incident, the infringing jukebox attempted to avoid RIAA extortion demands and was refusing payment, a more in-depth look at 11′
July 24th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
It’s interesting. But I just wrote an article about how file sharing was positively impacting crime statistics in the USA (decreasing it) rsulting in over 3 million less americans in jail than before the internet went commercial.
Source: http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
(Calculation based on 3,186,372 prisoners not serving one year or 365 days in prison between 1992 and 2007.)
On that basis, since the Internet has started in the USA, the US Government have saved an estimated $58,151,289,000 (Calc @$50 p/day) on prisoner âaccommodation costsâ.
That saving alone is more that the content industry would have made from the legal sales of music and movies in the USA for the same ten year period.