Big Music and The Mob
p2pnet.net News:- So can you put OC (Organized Crime) and OM (Organized Music) together?
“Of course you can,” says Boycott-RIAA founder Bill Evans in a comment post.
We recently wrote, “In much the same way that they try to disingenuously tie file sharers in with criminal counterfeiters, the entertainment and software cartels also claim copyright infringement has a major place in the world of The Sopranos – in other words, with Organized Crime.”
OC and ‘piracy’ are indeed connected, says Evans. And it’s been like that for years. The only thing is, the labels are, “on the INSIDE” and, he goes on, “This is just the tip of the iceberg. If we can ever get an investigation into record labels, ‘The Mob’ would be green with envy. It would make Enron look like kid’s stuff.”
Required reading? Evans suggests Fredric Dannen’s Hit Men, a “shocking, highly controversial expose of the venality, greed, and corruption of many of the assorted kingpins and hustlers who rule over the music industry,” says alibris.
… and William Knoedelseder’s Stiffed: A True Story of MCA, the Music Business, and the Mafia.
… and, by way of a music history note, “Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records”
Last, but by no means least, when Evans was short on funds a while back (I know how that goes ; ) he was forced to sell Boycott-RIAA. He and its new owner disagreed on a number of important issues, so Evans left him to it.
Ever since, I’ve been trying to get him to work with me on p2pnet. And I believe that day is nigh : )
Stay tuned.
Jon
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recently posted – Are OC and ‘piracy’ connected?, August 19, 2005
August 20th, 2005 at 7:15 pm
Vanilla Ice says that the music business is a Mob racket, and he was a ‘position to know’. A dispute with his recording label that led to his being dangled by the ankles off his hotel balcony until he agreed to sign away his royalty rights.
August 20th, 2005 at 11:24 pm
If and when Bill Evans does join you, p2pnet will be unbeatable – and it’s not far off that now.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed that it happens sooner rather than later.
Morg
August 21st, 2005 at 2:37 pm
If they’d know how his career was going to end up, they’d have dropped him.
August 21st, 2005 at 2:37 pm
They should have dropped him!
August 22nd, 2005 at 5:43 am
Lets not insult men of respect by comparing them to petty thugs, you want to talk about music and the mob then look up Morris Levy and the Genovese, that’s what you call a racket, not shaking down a two bit rapper.
August 22nd, 2005 at 4:38 pm
What happened with that guy and the Genovese family??
August 23rd, 2005 at 12:58 am
P2P.net is one of my favorite blogs and on the other side of the story. Big Music is my licensing partners–at the end of the day, I know deep inside my heart that the Phantom Poet Graffito is a gangster. And like all gangsters, I want my mother–F**kin money! In this cruel world of digital distribution those fancy-pants lawyers and those big time distributors take my money and invest in their families while my own
mob suffer under the disquise of legal contracts. For now the FBI and the Justice department are on their side and deep in their pockets. But this crap cannot go on forever! I know deep in my heart they want to send a hit man down here in my region and snuff me out before the pay-off; it’s not going to happen though–If you want to f**k with
Literati X, I’m ready! I’m not playing sh*t in cyberspace! The more crooked you get with my money, the more psychotic I’m going to be on your ass and your family’s a**es! The butcher and the behead is going
to leave a butt hole dripping a trail of plasma-red. . .
August 23rd, 2005 at 3:56 am
When ever there is control over something popular big crime will be there. I download music just to get back at these gangsters. I do not buy music becuase I know it is suporting crime. Entertainers need to stop signing with these creeps and go on their own. When they do I will pay again.