WE ARE BOYCOTTING THEIR CRAP, BECAUSE OF THE MANY LAWSUITS THEY FILE AGAINST THEIR CUSTUMERS!

At home we decided to stop renting DVDs from Blockbuster, switching the TV set away from Sony, Universal and Warner programs (despite how much I love “Friends”) and even refusing to listen to EMI recordings for an entire week (so my Beatle’s Collection goes to sleep).

PLEASE EVERYONE DO LIKEWISE to see the powerful effect this may have.

Pass it on

Reinaldo, San Antonio de los Altos, Venezuela

At home we decided to stop renting DVDs from Blockbuster, switching the TV set away from Sony, Universal and Warner programs (despite how much I love “Friends”) and even refusing to listen to EMI recordings for an entire week (so my Beatle’s Collection goes to sleep).

PLEASE EVERYONE DO LIKEWISE to see the powerful effect this may have.

Pass it on

Boycott starts 1st of May 2005!

t is time for all music and movie lovers to put their foot down and
SAY NO to high prices and lack of quality online services.

The Say No Campaign encourages all of you around the world to stop buying CD’sand DVD’s until the Music Industry and Movie Industry starts to listen and change how they do business. We want lower prices and better, faster and easy-to-use online services.

Here are three simple steps to make this campaign successful:

# Don’t buy or rent any CD or DVD during the boycott.
# Tell your friends, colleagues, family and relatives about this campaign.
# Become a Supporter to show your participation. Together we are stronger.

The Say No Campaign is continuously running but phase 1 of the boycott runs between 1st of May 2005 and 31st of December 2005.

how about flashmobbing at a different cartel office every day during the boycott? most every major city in europe and usa have cartel offices.

i don’t know how to organize flashmobbing. i’ve only read about a few ridiculous ones which had no useful purpose. at least we have a purpose. can someone here propose a way?

I’ll participate because I haven’t bought music since the RIAA started suing consumers, which still seems to me to be a really, really bad thing to do. When the MPAA starts to sue individuals I’ll also stop buying movies and going to the theatre.

As for other suggestions:
Protest marches in Washington get the mainstream media’s attention. Protesting at major awards (the Grammys, Oscars, etc), if enough people show up, will also garner attention.

The riaa and mpaa member organisations are just infrastructure. Increasingly obsolete, expensive, inefficient and unnecessary infrastructure.

I give both organisations 5 years before they’re declared unviable by stock analysts.

If you believe this is fruitless then suggest another tact that is reasonable towards accomplishing the goal of telling these folks that the actions they using are not acceptable.

An Irish gentleman by the name of Boycott was once using simular tactics back in the 1800’s or so to grab land from families that could not pay. He became so resented within the town he lived in that the township began a boycott that resulted in him going bankrupt. Hence boycott was born.

I am all in agreement that a week isn’t going to cut it but then I have made my feelings known earlier on that. It’s gotta be long term to have results.

If you have valid and doable suggestions to work towards this goal, lets us hear them by all means.

reeeeaaalllly. there’s an ancient, arcane, vast old tome which you are quoting from…it’s called ‘the book of duh.’ this ain’t some new trend or marketing move, or carefully researched and focus-grouped idear, kids. money+influence+power will ALWAYS stifle the opposition in our world…its, while perhaps not ‘right’ or morally ‘good,’ a strongly standing embedded fact of the dollar driven world you exist in. it’s been fact since caveman a clubbed caveman b because he was stronger, and got the girl…up thru ancient rome and feudal japan and feudal everywhere-else and the inquisition and the car-gasoline economy taking over up to right now where you think you’ll make a dent with some kind of nice ’stick it to THE MAN’ boycott that won’t do jack-smurf to change their tactics. cause they make billion$ off ‘em whether they’re ‘good for us as individuals and a species’ or not.

and,
[quote]A week-long boycott will show them exactly who’s in charge.[end quote]

NO. the only dog-darned thing that will ’show them what’s in charge,’ them being every covert and overt big biz, organization, guv’mint, quasi-guv’mint, ’shadow conspiracy trilateral commission,’ RIAA, MPAA, CIA, MIA, WTF, you-name-it-X-files-group whether church-run, mafia-run, martian-run, gerbil-run,
the ONLY thing that these groups that have been in power and will be in power will EVER be ’shown’ anything through is you re-watching fight club
and revisiting the very last few minutes of that fine flick when the pixies ‘where is my mind’ is playing, and the buildings are going up in smoke.
that’s the only thing that changes biz policies, kiddies.

Rick

If in the back of your mind, you haven’t wondered perhaps you should. Why is it that fair and equal time isn’t given to the opposition of those so ready to spread on the airwaves and cables of the world that “pirates sail the internet doing damage”? If you aren’t aware of why, you should be. The major music conglomerates either have vested interest or own and control major media outlets. They have used that influance to assure that their message gets out and that opposing messages get throttled before it has a chance to be known. Usually the mentions of disagreement with their actions are either found in the editiorials or on the net. You don’t hear anything coming out the major broadcasters that counter this steady drum beat of pirates. That should tell you something. Money and influance is being applied to stifle the opposition.

For the average public citizen, if they are aware of some sort of problem, the 6 o’clock news is about their only source besides the radio of exposure. Because of that most aren’t even aware there is a problem till they go buy the music and find out it doesn’t work as they wish. I have read many complaints of DRM stifling the legal applications that the average consumer would wish to do with his purchased product. You can be sure for every one you hear there are literally hundreds that weren’t outspoken but were still teed to be ripped off for their money only to not be able to do with that purchased product the transfer to some other platform to enjoy that product. These stories aren’t getting out either. Its a one way filter, just like a one way mirror.

When it comes to looking for laws to support the latest to fight infringement you see every major music company represented by the RIAA. When it comes to something like anticompetive court cases brought against those same majors you hear the “you don’t have jurisdiction” routine. This is a huge game being played with you the customer being caught right in the middle.

It has developed that this commercialism of the airwaves has reached the point that it no longer serves the interests of the public. It serves the interests of businesses only and one of the biggest cold blooded sharks of the businesses is the music majors. If you don’t tell them now, in 2 years you will wish you had.