RIAA fears net neutrality
p2pnet news view | RIAA:- Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US) believe they have a special case when it comes to net neutrality.
While they once again deal with charges of price fixing, their US extortion unit, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), “wants to make sure that when regulations on Net neutrality are adopted, they don’t impede antipiracy efforts,” says CNet News, going on:
“That’s why the Recording Industry Association of America on Thursday asked the Federal Communications Commission to ‘adopt flexible rules’ that free Internet service providers to fight copyright theft.
“This week is the deadline for submitting comments to the FCC as it considers proposed regulations for Net neutrality, the term coined by those who want the Web to be open to all forms of content, Web sites, and platforms and also want to prevent ISPs from charging users higher rates to access different sites or content.”
As p2pnet pointed out yesterday, the RIAA was used to launch the Three Strikes element of the entertainment cartel ACTA scheme in the US.
When it was announced, according to the RIAA, American ISPs were hot to trot as Big 4 copyright enforcers against their own customers.
However, the providers didn’t see it quite like that and instead of being the spearhead for the Three Strike and your Off The Net campaign, the US waits in the wings while all the running — lurching, might be a better word — is done in Europe.
Stay tuned.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
once again – Big Music in price fixing lawsuit. Again., January 14, 2010
CNet News – RIAA: Net neutrality shouldn’t inhibit antipiracy, January 14, 2010
ACTA scheme – ACTA: epic fail, December 31, 2009
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January 15th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
It will be a slow death for these parasites, but it will happen one way or the other. They’re desparately clinging to the last thread of hope they have of criminalizing their own customers through extortion and fear. Just a few more years, and it will all be over.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
The RIAA (bullshit name for the mob) should fear net neutrality!
But thats not all that they should fear, we the CUSTOMERS of the recording industry are fed up with the bullshit, lies and threats (FUD). We do not CONSUME music, look up the bloody definition of the word you morons, we dont EAT music we listen to it, and we SHARE GOOD MUSIC with our friends and family.
What the RIAA and thier puppet masters really should fear is US! The masses FORMERLY known as customers, are still customers. You lazy fat music killing bastards wouldnt have a pot to piss in (or any to smoke) if it wasnt for us, and now we are just damn tired and pissed off about how you treat us.
Now you want to whine about not being able to pay your artists, or create new ones. Thats bullshit too, if you stop ripping everyone off (including signed artists) you just might find some of us willing to make sure they get paid, and if you really want to pay them lay off the drugs, booze, and whores and take a PAY CUT like the rest of us, then try a little reality for once!
(slides soap box under desk) DONE!
January 17th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Copyright should be treated just like rent property, a value should be placed on it and taxed at that value ever year. A land lord or home owner pays property tax even if it is not making money. When money is made income taxes are paid on that, If he does not pay the tax then it is taken and sold and in the case of copyright should be added to the public pool with no copyright. Current copyright is a monopoly purchased from the 13 year olds that run this country and it started with Bill Clinton. Copyright should be reset to default just like the founding fathers set it. Corporate America needs to be banded from Washington there is nowhere in the constitution that gives a business rights. The constitution begins Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.