p2pnet - rss feed: BPI on the hook
p2pnet.net News:- “Anyone looking at file sharing can see that it is illegal … The price of downloads is 79p. That is the price of a bottle of coke. Excuses are frankly running thin.”
Excuses are indeed running thin, as the above quote proves. But the transparency is entirely on the part of the BPI’s owners, the members of the Big Four record label cartel.
The quote comes in Michael Ingram’s Slyck Q&A with BPI spokesman Matt Philips on why the Big Music enforcement organ is suing 28 Britons.
Philips’ boss, BPI chairman Peter Jamieson, admits he’s been instructed by his employers, the Big Four record labels, to follow in the footsteps of another cartel-owned alphabet agency, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) in suing kids, “if they are breaking the law on a very large scale.”
He didn’t define “large scale” or what shape any ensuing Big Music punishment against offending British children might take.
“Should the industry not continue to look inward, rather than lashing out at consumers who use file sharing networks?” - asks Ingram, referring to BMG’s scheme to offer DIY CDs.
“Consumers are people who buy things, not people who steal things and then share them with millions of others,” Philips responds.
Actually, ‘consumers’ are the ones who willingly pay a dollar for each download from the various plastic corporate music sites which carry identical Big Music ‘product’ at the same prices.
The people who are causing all the trouble are ‘customers’ - those who, when they pay good money for something, expect value in return.
“What we seek to stop is people uploading files to the internet without permission,” says Philips, self-righteously. “It’s illegal … We’ve warned repeatedly that we’ll sue if people don’t stop - but clearly that’s not been enough.”
There you go, all you thieves.
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See:-
Q&A - Slyck Questions BPI, Slyck, October 9, 2004
suing kids - Sue kids in UK piracy suits?, p2pnet, October 10, 2004
DIY CDs - New BMG ‘anti-pirate’ CD, p2pnet, October 10, 2004
October 11th, 2004 at 12:39 am
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