p2pnet.net News:- Radio-Canada broadcasts an adaptation of Tout Le Monde En Parle, a popular weekly French show featuring interviews and candid chat with artists, scientists, activists, politics, journalists – and anyone else in the Music Biz who happens to be around.

Now Germany’s BMG, a charter member of Big Four record label cartel, is using it as a vehicle to brainwash people in Quebec, Canada’s French-speaking province.

Since September, Tout Le Monde En Parle has been going out every Sunday night on Quebec television and it’s a tremendous success. More than two million people tune in and for a province that counts only about seven million French speaking inhabitants, that’s a lot.

It’s a must for any artist seeking to make an impact there. It wasn’t surprising, then, to find local star Andrée Watters, who’s promoting her first album, making an appearance on the October 24 edition.

During the interview, host Guy A. Lepage solemnly asks Watters what she thinks about piracy on the Internet.

“It’s like stealing a sweater in a shop”, she answers with as much spontaneity as a parrot.

And then …

… “When a fan presents me with a burned CD at a concert so I can autograph it, I refuse”, she says.

Why’s that?

You have to give a performers his or her original CD or you’re not a true fan, she explains. And if you’re not a true fan, you don’t deserve her respect. Or her autograph.

No money to buy both the concert ticket AND the album?

No dedication.

Burn it from files bought legally on the Internet?

Too bad.

That’s the new logic of the modern music industry.

Watters is under contract to Vik Recordings, a BMG subsidiary and confesses that she owes her success to her age: “I’m 21 so the kids like me.”

Twenty-one? That’s typically the age of your average p2p file sharer watching the show.

On October 31st, she’ll be at ADISQ, the Quebecois Recording, Performance and Video Industry Association’s advertising fest – sort of a Quebec version the RIAA music awards.

And despite the fact she’s relatively unknown, Andrée Watters has nonetheless been been nominated in five award categories.

How did that come about?

I’ll let you figure it out for yourself. But by way of a hint, Guy A. Lepage is hosting the gala. And the coproducer, Luc Wiseman, is also the only shareholder of the company that will be producing the broadcasted gala, Avanti Ciné Vidéo.

Guillaume Champeau – Ratiatum.com

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