Copyright Alliance: the essence of bullshit
p2pnet news view P2P:- Tacky corporate entertainment cartel unit the Copyright Alliance yesterday issued a cringingly embarrassing (for the corporate entertainment cartels) petition and press release designed to get the US administration to, “pursue policies supportive of the rights of artists and the encouragement of our creative efforts”.
“We are the essence of America,” it said in a petition it expects acolytes to sign.
Actually, the Copyright Alliance is the essence of bullshit.
And in its ‘grassroots’ thingy, “Since the founding of our country, our work has provided light in the darkness of conflict, humor in the depths of sadness, beauty in the face of ugliness, and reason in the dysfunction of division,” it says.
The fact none the companies signed up as members even existed when America was founded, and that some of them aren’t even American, hailing from as far afield as Japan, France and Australia, seems to have completely escaped Lucinda Dugger, alliance ‘director of outreach’.
One can only think the companies didn’t see the CA BS before it was issued.
There can be no other explanation.
Meanwhile, “We, the undersigned, are just a few of the more than 11 million artists living, working, and creating across the United States,” says the coalition in its ‘essence’ petition. “Our work brings significant cultural and economic value to our society and contributes $1.52 trillion to the nation`s GDP. Yet that value is being disregarded as our rights and incentives to create are increasingly under threat.”
Says Australian economist and frequent p2pnet poster »»»
Well, I just did some quick numbers and I couldn’t get to 1.2 trillion dollars. Doesnt matter how I cut the cake.
Whatever, so actually that meant that the content industry paid 300 billion in taxes last year.
Oh goody goody.
Because if they didn’t, (and they didn’t) then their proof of income as a valuation for the business is flawed and the argument should be thrown out.
Don’t the Government and banks require taxation filings to prove income in America?
Otherwise it’s called a low-doc loan application and really isnt all that good for the economy. 
I did some quick numbers on the approximate demonstratable value of P2P to the USA economy and I came up with $626,496,816,264
(Which in reality is the numbers of multiplying the australian value by 16 . but its close enough.)
So RIAA, here’s the Gauntlet:
You publish your figures proving that number and I will do the same here .
BTW empirical proof Neil Armstrong wrote secret memo to Whitehouse Moon is actually made of Fetta cheese (and the empirical proof is in all those nursery rhymes.)
And »»»
Just go ahead and sign the petition boys and girls.
Petition my butt!
I signed up as Tom Koltai Economist Research Reports about P2P
And even changed my addy to Reno NV
But … regardless of what I put in there it says …
Error:
The reCAPTCHA wasn`t entered correctly. Go back and try it again.
So if it`s a real petition why doesnt it work ?
I thought Hollywood could have faked this one better than that …
Thanks, Tom.
Stay tuned.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
petition – `We are the essence of America`, September 30, 2009
press release – More Copyright Alliance equine excreta, September 30, 2009
Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It`s really easy!
Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php
Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.
October 1st, 2009 at 4:53 pm
You need to click the refresh button near Recaptcha to get an image that you can read. I did it three times and could submit the petition.
I submitted it as #8312
Name: We don’t want your America
City: Toronto
State: NV
Type of Artist/Creator: Your former customer
October 1st, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Actually, we need to hand it over to 4channers – so that they can fill it with a mix of fake and fake real-looking data.
This petition can be discredited very easily.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:20 pm
âpursue policies supportive of the rights of artists and the encouragement of our creative effortsâ
Let’s not talk about the rather useless rights of artists, already given away at gunpoint.
Let’s talk money instead.
Anyone has an idea how much money was collected from the sale of the artists’ work?
Anyone has an idea how much was paid to artists in royalties?
Then we can figure out what percent of the pie goes to artists and how much to the corporate crowd.
Or is it that we have to assume that artists get a share share of the pie but the share size is irrelevant and is confidential?
The “use the artist” bullshit continues.