p2pnet - rss feed: Santangelo: Number 1 story
p2p news / p2pnet:- On March 24 this year, we started building the Top 15 Most-Read Posts of All Time list. And the Patricia Santangelo interview is now Number 1, with RIAA ‘fines’ students $3,750 the fast-ever riser, a position previously held by the Santangelo story.
RIAA ‘fines’ is already at Number 15 after having gone up only yesterday at at 3:16 pm.
The mainstream media, however, appear to be trying to pretend that neither Santangelo nor victimized students exist.
Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels’ most important discovery was: no matter how big a lie may be, if it’s repeated often enough and loudly enough, eventually, it’s accepted as truth.
The music, movie and software cartels use their MPAA, RIAA and BSA propaganda organs to shout the lies that ‘pirate’ file sharers are costing them billions of dollars in sales, and that the millions of people who share files with each other are criminals.
The Goebbels Principle used to work for them, with the able and enthusiastic assistance of many members of the international press corps. But that’s now changing, and fast.
The ‘core of music fandom’
More and more corporate serfs are becoming internet surfers and as they hook up with each other, and as they increasingly turn to independent sites and blogs for genuinely fair and balanced news, the traditional media are slowly but surely slipping into irrelevance.
In the digital 21st century, the corporations are losing the power they once thought was theirs by divine right. They are no longer in charge. You are. And the Goebbels Principle works just as well for truth as is does for lies.
” ‘Piracy’ has traditionally been used to refer to infringers who are selling counterfeit copies for personal gain,” the EFF’s (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Fred von Lohmann recently said. “Lumping typical downloaders into the same group as for-profit pirates is a mistake - they are not the same people, are not driven by the same motives, and are a great deal more diverse in age, income, and circumstance.
“Pirates are never your customers. Downloaders, on the other hand, are the core of music fandom - they are, like it or not, the core demographic that the music and movie industries will need to please in the future.”
Forget the music, music and software cartel dis- and misinformation releases. Ignore the phony press releases from vested corporate interests.
Keep posting, and passing on, stories which point up the falacies and bull-shit and the critical mass factor will come into play sooner than you think.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
- Mohandas Gandhi
See:-
Patricia Santangelo story - RIAA victim talks to p2pnet, September 4, 2005
fast-ever riser - RIAA ‘fines’ students $3,750, September 9, 2005
recently said - Fred von Lohmann talks to p2pnet, September 8, 2005
September 11th, 2005 at 10:06 am
In a somewhat reversal of commonly-held belief, “the big lie” was a term originally coined by Hitler (not about Hitler) to describe the US WWI war propaganda, created under the direction of the Creel Commission, which was credited with being vastly superior to the relatively crude German propaganda, and one of the chief reasons that Germany lost WWI. America’s leading propaganda scientist was Edward Bernays, himself a Jew, which along with a high concentration of Jews in the field of ‘persuasive psychology’ (this included not only war propaganda, but also public relations and advertising techniques) certainly must have got Hitler to take notice.
Josef Goebbels is often credited in the mainstream media with being a master propagandist, but in fact he was an admirer (and imitator) of existing US propaganda techniques that had been developed, tested, and applied ever since their codification during the WWI-era Creel Commission. It was Americans like Bernays who had developed many of the propaganda methods that Goebbels is often credited with.
George Bush effectively employs many of these same ‘textbook’ tried-and-true propaganda techniques, such as copious use of fear-mongering as a tool of persuasion. His “big lie” technique worked well also, as in the case of the often-repeated Saddam-Osama alliance; although it was no secret that the two leaders were really ideologically-irreconcilable enemies, the claim took root in the minds of the gullible US public.
It’s interesting that although the science of modern propaganda methods is openly available for all to see and study, the vast majority of people seem to be totally unaware that they’re being manipulated - even by simple boilerplate propaganda methods!