Live 8 DVDs on eBay
p2pnet.net News:- Big Music’s BPI (British Phonographic Industry) is cynically using the Live 8 concerts to spout record label cartel propaganda.
DVD copies of the Live 8 “poverty awareness pop concerts” were showing up on eBay auctions within a day of the shows. But after complaints from “the record industry,” eBay took them down, says Reuters.
The concerts were staged to raise awareness of poverty in Africa and to force the heads of government attending the G8 conference in Scotland to do something about it.
“Some of the pirate recordings on the site early on Tuesday were on sale within 24 hours of Saturday’s concerts ending, and have been attracting bids of up to 16.99 pounds ($31) each,” says Reuters.
But while the concerts were free, “EMI paid millions of pounds for the rights to release the official DVD of the event,” says Reuters.
"There are too many people out there who believe music is for stealing, regardless of the wishes of artists and the people who invest in them," it has BPI mouthpiece David Martin saying
“The BPI urged eBay to toughen its safeguards against piracy, noting a dramatic rise in illegal sales,” adds the story.
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Reuters – Pirated Live 8 DVDs on eBay, industry protests, July 5, 2005
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July 5th, 2005 at 3:19 pm
“There are too many people out there who believe music is for stealing, regardless of the wishes of artists and the people who invest in them,” it has BPI mouthpiece David Martin saying
That’s right it’s the cartels job to plunder and pillage the arts, so you bad people stop doing it!
July 5th, 2005 at 7:38 pm
I am wonder how many of the Live 8 musicians wanted this event used to promote the propaganda of those who (IMHO falsely) claim “to invest in them” who are promoting some of the least fair trade policies. What BMI is promoting is in direct conflict with the policies of the Live 8 concert!
Here is what I wrote to my elected representatives about the Make Poverty History campaign:
Further (copyright) policy suggestions on how to Make Poverty History.
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/view/960
July 5th, 2005 at 11:03 pm
That (yes, out of context) snippet pretty much sums up how the lables “handle” the talent they “own”. What if all the artists involved in Live 8 had stated that the music recorded at those concerts was to be freely distributed to all to raise awareness of poverty? First off, the lables would have cried fowl sighting the fact that THEY own the rights to this material, not the artists. Then they would do their worst to stomp out any attempt to do so, REGARDLESS OF THE WISHES OF ARTISTS.
Artist’s wishes, what a sad joke.