Digital Music Forums east love-in
p2pnet view Music | P2P:- This year’s Digital Music Forums east love-in also features several personalities linked directly to Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music efforts to turn their customers into copyright slaves.
In order of appearance on the speakers list are, from left to right and top to bottom >>>
Rio Caraeff, president and CEO, VEVO
Universal and Sony are the two major stakeholders — along with giant online advertising company Google, of course, said p2pnet recently. According to Caraeff Vevo was “built to help advertisers and content owners”. Forget the users, people who keep them all going.
Thomas Hesse, president, global digital business, US sales and corporate strategy, Sony Music Entertainment
Sony BMG weasled DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) and rootkit spyware onto the computers of people who’d bought some of its music CDs, said p2pnet back in 2005, going on, “The software – the SunnComm version also exposed users to potentially serious security problems – was hidden on the discs and secretly installed itself when buyers played the music.” Hesse wondered at the subsequent outrage, saying, ‘Most people, I think, do not even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it?’; and described the spyware issue as “slight”. He still hasn’t been fired.
Russ Crupnick, VP and senior industry analyst, NPD Group
NPD is a “market research firm which suddenly appeared out of nowhere in late 2003 and which the mainstream media immediately began quoting as an authority on music and file sharing,” said p2pnet. It’s one of Apple’s principal bulldust emitters, once actually claiming iTunes, “tied with LimeWire as the second-most-popular digital music service in March, 2005″. Oh, Rilly? 
When p2pnet first came across NPD, adidas International, International Flavors & Fragrance and Wrigley typified its client base, but it was nonetheless churning out ’studies’ and ‘reports’ bolstering entertainment cartel claims.
Jim Griffin, founder, Choruss / advisor, Warner Music Group
“Warner’s Choruss school licensing scheme is being touted by its main engineer, Jim Griffin as, at the least, a partial answer to the bitter and brutal anti-P2P, anti-music-lover, anti-file sharing actions launched by Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music, American, but run by Canadian Edgar Bronfman jr, against their own customers,” said p2pnet. The idea is students will pay Warner $5 a month for unlimited music downloads and already, Tens of thousands of students have signed up to pay for a legal P2P music program in US universities, set to start later this year in experimental form, said Andrew Orlowski in The Register, describing Choruss as, the incubator hatched by Jim Griffin a long-time advocate of licensing P2P sharing on networks. Tens of thousands, eh? And yet strangely, to date, neither Warner nor Griffin have followed up with what must be a substantial list of universities which’ve committed their students to using Choruss. And mentions of it in the on- or offline media are conspicuous by their absence.
What a crew. 
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
February, 2010
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