The music cartel gets its income by shafting everyone in sight. Customers, artists, the employed worker in the sound studio, you name it and somewhere there is a scheme to milk it. Much of that scheme requires what most of us would call “creative accounting” in that numbers can be juggled to whatever is needed given enough time and enough spin. The grip of the cartel is everything in seeing what goes on and who does it, tee off the industry and you can pack it up and go home.

Hollydud isn’t the same way when it comes to the artist, it still maintains the creative accounting. It pays its actors a one time fee and unless there is some different agreement the rest of the money remains the studios. In spin doctoring, they are both past masters. The phrase “You will never work in this town again”, comes originally from Hollydud. It too shows the control over the process and who gets to work (if at all) and who doesn’t. That isn’t a matter of finances, like the cartels it is a matter of control.

Both of these industries are crying their eyes out for more protection, more help, more laws, yet neither have yet to produce and show hard data showing it is so. Every consumer of media pays the price for these claims. Around the world, not just in one country. Within recent years the industries have managed to kill fair use when dealing with digital data. Getting laws to support this action around the world and many instances can be seen where active shutdowns are occuring in software over this idea. Both industries have been so successful that they are making hay before the pendulum swings away from allowing protectistic laws to be passed.

The hype is beginning to change the viewpoint that they need such strengthening of such laws. The music cartels have been caught in what should become the latest scandel over breaking laws that were already on the books and put in place to terminate the payolla actions. Everytime in the past that payolla has come up, money and influance has pored forth to terminate the investigation and end the threat. Hollywood has had its share of scandels also.

Both are becoming industries to hate and loathe for their dirty and shady dealings. I have no sympathy for their not being able to give the CEO an extra few billions this quarter because they didn’t sell enough at the ticket office or didn’t lay off quite enough workers.