Russia angers Big Music
p2pnet.net News:- You know how upset and irritated the members of Big Four record label cartel can get when someone doesn’t snap right to it? And that includes entire nations?
Well, the cartel-owned IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) has already told Russia in no uncertain terms to get its act together with respect to counterfeits, and so on.
Clear is clear. Right?
So naturally, Russia hopped to and as a result, “comments apparently made by a Russian government official suggest the country has been dropped from IFPI’s priority list,” say the Big Four through their IFPI.
But wait! “Apparently”?
That’s right. “Apparently” is the operative word and Russia is apparently still on the cartel’s (s)hit-list.
“Russia remains one of IFPI’s top ten priority countries,” says its boss, John Kennedy, sternly.
“While IFPI would obviously welcome any increase in Russia’s anti-piracy enforcement activity, there has been little action taken thus far in response to a very grave problem. IFPI calls upon the Russian government to take immediate steps to address the activities of major criminal enterprises operating in its territory.
“We hope that Russia will indeed conform to international standards and we can drop it from our priority lists, but there has been scant evidence that we are moving in that direction.
“The international recording industry will continue to lobby the Russian government to fulfil its international copyright obligations and act decisively against the country’s continuing high level of optical disc piracy.”
Russia, you have been warned. Again.
[Pity James Bond has retired - Ed]
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August 17th, 2005 at 10:49 pm
— the russian mafia (who controls the government) has these kind of people for lunch —
Not for lunch, for desert ; )
Cheers!
August 18th, 2005 at 12:42 am
a very very nasty expensive dessert
August 18th, 2005 at 1:44 am
I would imagine the senerio will go sort of like this…
High level diplomats will contact the offical Russian government and tell them they are in violation of WIPO IP trade agreements (this assumes that Russia has signed such agreements for world trade). That if they don’t clean up their house and fall in line that the rest of the world that has also signed such agreements will be forced not to trade with them. If they wish access to world markets that they will have to remove the copyright/patent issues.
While we don’t hear much of it, you can be sure that Canada officals have heard much the same speech and that is why, whether the populace wants it or not, some form of those laws will be enacted. That is their big stick.
August 18th, 2005 at 2:11 am
Recently, a Chinese military leader openly said they are willing to nuke the US because they can easily survive such an exchange. Russia & China hae joined their militaries & are performing joint exercises in anticipation of fighting the USA in 5-10 years. The USA’s answer is to buy more Chinese goods with money China lends it, help China build some nuclear power plants with VP Cheney’s help, plus it plans on outsourcing some aircraft carrier building to the Chinese. China’s also planning on selling their cars in the USA & say they can build a car equivalent to a $60,000 Cadillac & sell it for US $12,000. Bush also said, once, that Vlad Putin is a good man & he knew from “looking into his heart”…of darkness, I presume?
Here’s a great article on the US economies problems:
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,15114,1081269,00.html
The misadventures of the mid-east may prove een more costly than people realize.
August 18th, 2005 at 2:33 am
I think Russia has more important things to deal with than this garbage. Terrorism, civil wars, organized violent crime, starving people, poverty.. but nah clearly this is more important.
August 18th, 2005 at 5:16 am
I afraid to host my website in “America, Land of the Free” because of likely government persecution. It appears that I have found a new webhosting country.
August 18th, 2005 at 5:17 am
Russia: next on the axis of evil list?
August 18th, 2005 at 6:33 am
“IFPI calls upon the Russian government to take immediate steps to address the activities of major criminal enterprises operating in its territory.”
I’m happy the IFPI is so concerned about murder, counterfiting, slavery, robbery and the like that major criminal enterprises engage in and hopefully clean up the world and make Earth into a utopia. (sarcasm here).
They must be pretty damn arrogant to think a soverign nation, like Russia, with the size and power to do whatever they like will listen to an insignificant mafia mentality entertainment cartel. the russian mafia (who controls the government) has these kind of people for lunch.
Rick
August 18th, 2005 at 6:35 am
really?? Hey I’m interested in that. what are some Russian web hosting companies I can contact??
August 18th, 2005 at 9:03 am
That’s it Russia. This is your last warning.
I’m putting you on double secret probation.
August 18th, 2005 at 10:34 am
The cartels, are controlled by the RIAA / MPAA, which themselves are controlled by a ’select group’ of individuals, who shall remain anonymous for now (but do a little digging, and you’ll find their individual names).
Who gives a shit what the Fuc$king RIAA / MPAA thinks.
It’s a breath of fresh air Russia is giving them the finger.
And pardon my “russian”, I didn’t want to use such profain language to describe those juveniles. But, you can only ignore them so long, slap them in the face, but those bastard RIAA / MPAA keep coming back like a bad case of tumors…
August 18th, 2005 at 10:42 am
That sounds serious, Otter. Food fight!!!!
August 18th, 2005 at 1:49 pm
That’s almost just a laughable as dictating such terms ans conditions to the chinese.
Do you really think they are going to rein in russia ?
China still has one of the worst records for pirating movies and cds And do you really think they will reined in by the entertainment cartels ?
If they did china would start a trade war with the united states and all the democraps in the united congress
would start passing protectionest laws to prop up failing us industries like the entertainment cartels. i
t’s much like passing the dmca.
Politicians seem to think they will solve a complex issue like pirating by simplyt passing a lwaw againest.
NEVER WORKED NOW AND WILL NEVER WORK EITHER.
the level of corruption and arrogance in private industry and goverment is just amazing………….
August 18th, 2005 at 2:03 pm
Do a search on google (Russian Web Hosting)
http://styleng.chat.ru/ and http://ru-host.net/ are but two.
August 18th, 2005 at 2:05 pm
This is why the one world government is called the “Beast.”
August 18th, 2005 at 2:07 pm
Our “leaders” should be shot for treason.
August 18th, 2005 at 4:24 pm
I think Russia has more important things to worry about (as should the US have). Still I suppose the music cartel isn’t able to buy laws in Russia as they have in the US. Who’d have thought it – Russia less corrupt than the US when it comes to this?
August 18th, 2005 at 8:45 pm
Yeah, but maybe the Russians don’t come as cheap as the scum in our congress and senate. I’d say the asking price is too high for the music cartels.
August 19th, 2005 at 2:24 pm
Which is both part of the reason why so many Canadians get all up in arms the minute you compare the similarities between US/Canada…. and at the same time, a device used by polititicians when something can’t be done… ie, sending troops somewhere, etc. They will often pander to the populace using anti-American rhetoric, but in reality, they are often beholden to their US overlords for SOME reason. Just look at softwood lumber, the US loses in court, then ignores the decision, and Canada does nothing to fight it, or slap reciprocal duties on goods from the US.
August 19th, 2005 at 3:41 pm
You learn from your past mistakes to learn something and make sure it wont happen again. But the cartels dont get anything, they keep going on and on with their tactics. Screaming and screaming at a nation is not going to jump start them. Russia isn’t the most wealthiest nation, and I have travelled Russia and other nations bordering Russia many times, and there are quite a lot of families living in poverty, the last thing the Russian government will do is deal with the cartels in order to get them more money from lawsuits. This is will just be a disaster.
Ukraine (borders Russia) has a piracy rate of 91%, that is extremely high. They are even plants that produce fake copies of music/movies/games/programs and aren’t hidden at all. The government isn’t doing anything. The Ukrainian people have are more in poverty than Russia, and they too refuse to budge. Sure the government passed a few laws after the USA imposed a trade sanction for piracy, no one has ever enforced this law. There are even vendors that sell right in the bazzars (open air markets) the pirated things and they aren’t stopped and arrested they just sell.
The only way the cartels will get any influence is to actually help out the people and help out the government. In a position if you scratch my back I will scratch yours. But I dont see this coming to play soon.
August 19th, 2005 at 7:24 pm
The cartel looks at these hungry people and see only one thing – a source of money. That is all people are to them is a revenue stream. They don’t care if these people starve to death as long as they can get a few Rubles out of them in exchange for cartel brokered filth. People are cattle to them, they see each of us as a certain amount of revenue.
Not only have these thugs poisoned American culture, but they also are poisoning America’s image. It took my cousin visiting America this year to finally believe that most Americans are not sluts, gangsters, brutal cops and such. This is the impression many people in the world have of Americans. One of the probable reasons Islamic extremists attack Americans is likely because of the way they perceive American culture. They are afraid that their daughters might grow up to be whores, their wives adultresses, their sons tattooed gangstas. This is what many see when they hear about American “democracy.” If I lived in those parts of the world and that is all I saw of America, I would want to fight to keep my nation pure.
August 20th, 2005 at 9:18 am
the russians should launch nuclear icbm missiles at the headquarters of riaa and rac.
also, send one to sheryl crow’s house.