Big Music parasites anti-piracy move
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- If ever a group of businesses deserved the appellation ‘parasites,’ it has to be major record labels.
And yet Big Music comprising, to all intent and purposes, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, has gone running to the Spanish industry ministry with the names of 200 sites they claim offer links to illegal downloads in Spain.
It’s the “first major move in the fight against online music piracy” as announced in Madrid yesterday at the presentation their ‘report’ called, ironically, Parasites’ Business, says Billboard.
The phoney study was released by the Coalition of Creators and Content Industries and the CoPeerRight Agency following a government “inter-ministerial commission to draw up legislation to combat intellectual property violations,” says the story.
“Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero made his first official visit to the White House last week on Oct. 13, after six years in office,” says the story, adding:
“Relations with the Bush government were cool after Spain withdrew its troops from Iraq the same day that Zapatero took office. Before summer, the U.S. government criticised Spain’s inaction on digital piracy.”
The ‘findings’ are slated for release in December.
(Cheers, Marc)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Billboard – 200 Spanish File-Sharing Sites Identified, October 19, 2009
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October 20th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
psst.. The (legal) music fades out for Canadians
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/the-legal-music-fades-out-for-canadians/article1330240/
October 20th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
I say PARASITES need to be exterminated
heh.
Whos with? lol
Go Spain! seems “Parasites Business” are trying too hard to make something thats legal, illegal which Im pretty sure wont work No matter how fast the narrator of a video talks (http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-group-aims-for-huge-bittorrent-site-purge-091020/) or if it makes absolutely no sense at all
What the hell does eBay have to do with Piracy? =S
I rest my case
October 20th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
“If ever a group of businesses deserved the appellation ‘parasites,’ it has to be major record labels.”
That’s what I thought Jon!
October 20th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/p2p/72910/
Interview with demonoid hosters in Ukraine. In Russian.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
“If ever a group of businesses deserved the appellation ‘parasites,’ it has to be major record labels.”
Agree.