p2pnet - rss feed: Big Music university shill report
p2p news / p2pnet:- The farcical Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities has issued an “update to Congress outlining the latest efforts to address illegal file-sharing on campuses and the emerging challenges ahead”.
The JCHEEC was founded by the entertainment cartels with the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) in the lead to ‘persuade’ universities and other teaching institutions across America to act as marketing, sales and enforcement units.
Penn State president Graham Spanier shares the role of joint JCHEEC chairman with RIAA president Cary Sherman with Barry K. Robinson, RIAA senior counsel for corporate affairs, who deals with “day-to-day” legal matters for the association, as a Penn State trustee.
It works like this: EMI, Warner, Universal and Sony BMG, owners of the Big Music blackmail cartel, have oiled several hard-core commercial music suppliers into the universities and if the students use these ’services’ instead of the p2p networks, the cartel doesn’t sue them.
The project is largely overseen by university staffs who act as unpaid industry cops and sales persons. It’s also indirectly supported by school fees.
Once again, the JCHEEC uses Penn State to launch its latest piece of propaganda which, “highlights considerable progress during the past academic year in the growth of legitimate music and movie services, the adoption of technological measures, and education and enforcement programs on campuses”.
Schools with ‘legitimate’ services on campus have “more than tripled to nearly 70 in the last year,” the report boasts. But, “Despite these great strides,” the report cites “several key challenges” in need of “immediate attention within the university community”.
For example, “student-run file-sharing systems on schools’ Local Area Networks (LANs) as well as the increased use of unauthorized hacks of the legitimate online service iTunes are emerging as significant problems”.
But, “We are thrilled to see the number of schools offering legitimate services more than triple in the last year and remain hopeful that these partnerships will continue to flourish,”says Sherman.
To make sure that’s the case, he and his boss Mitch ‘The Don’ Bainwol will no doubt soon announce the latest raft of student victims being shafted by RIAA subpoenas.
And the fact both the RIAA and MPAA have weaseled themselves into Internet2 to,”study advanced content distribution technologies” will help as well.
Meanwhile, “Universities have made impressive progress in combating piracy of music and movies through educational efforts, technical controls, and the adoption of legitimate on-line services,” says Spanier. “At the same time, we in higher education must expand the reach of our efforts and must continue to be vigilant.”
Wrong, Spanier.
You in higher education are supposed to be making sure your students get the very best that can be provided, not to be acting as unpaid shills for Big Music and the studios.
In our story on the last University p2p ‘report’, August 25, 2004, we wrote, “None of the 3,995 victims sued by JCHEEC ‘entertainmment’ members have been proven guilty of anything because no one has appeared before a judge. Defendants are always encouraged to settle out of court and to date, Big Music with its bottomless pockets and heavyweight legal teams, remains unchallenged.”
But it’s no longer unchallenged, thanks to Patricia Santangelo, Dawnell Leadbetter and Tanya Andersen, among a handful of others.
Stay tuned.
[It’s worth mentioning that we learned about this latest JCHEEC ‘report’ from S, J &M, three Penn students who are seriously pissed because school resources and staff are being used in this way. You’d think parents would be angry as well. But apparently, it’s OK with them.]
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See:-
Penn State - University, entertainment industry leaders address campus file-sharing in report to Congress, September 21, 2005
weaseled themselves - RIAA, MPAA, penetrate Internet2, September 10, 2005
proven guilty - University p2p ‘report’, August 25, 2004
no longer unchallenged - The ‘We’re Not Taking Any More’ club, September 17,
September 22nd, 2005 at 7:43 am
Problem is that a lot of parents don’t pay any attention to what happens at their kids schools. Except at the end of the year when the kids bring home their grades. Why do you think the religious nuts have so much control over what goes on at the schools? They’re the only ppl who actually go and see what’s going on.
In Oz schools aren’t autonomous, everything they do is controlled by the state govts. This is why you don’t hear about ID being proposed to be taught in Oz schools. The religious twits have no more access to schools or influence on education decision making than anyone else in the community.
So if you want the parents to get upset about it, first you’d have to turn off their damned tv’s to get their attention and then explain it to them… In words of one syllable or less for a lot of them. I’m not saying ALL american parents are morons, just a frighteningly large number of them.
September 22nd, 2005 at 3:25 pm
“Problem is that a lot of parents don’t pay any attention to what happens at their kids schools.”
This is true. I couldn’t agree more.
“Why do you think the religious nuts have so much control over what goes on at the schools?”
Religion, at least in the traditional sense, has all but been banned from school. The only religion that is allowed in schools is worship of the government and cartels, consumerism, and the “almighty dollar.” To which religious “nut” are you refering?
“In Oz schools aren’t autonomous, everything they do is controlled by the state govts.”
Same here in the P.S.A. and most every other country as far as public school is concerned. Schools in the P.S.A. are also heavily influenced by the cartels. I strongly recommend that parents homeschool their children or send the to a school within their congregation.
“The religious twits have no more access to schools or influence on education decision making than anyone else in the community.”
Again, to which “religious twit” are you referring?
“So if you want the parents to get upset about it, first you’d have to turn off their damned tv’s to get their attention and then explain it to them… In words of one syllable or less for a lot of them”.
That is the TRUTH!!! In order to get people to turn off their telly, you have to give them another form of pacifying entertainment. Peer to peer works great. Independent movies that are entertaining can be used to counteract the brainwashing. The same is true for music.
I love the song, “We All Live in Walmartville.”
“I’m not saying ALL american parents are morons, just a frighteningly large number of them.”
By calling Americans morons (yes using the words a “frighteningly large number” counts), you turn off people in the P.S.A. to whatever
good point you had. If you leave off the part, “In words of one syllable or less for a lot of them” and the last sentence, your comment might influence a few more people.
September 23rd, 2005 at 2:21 am
What always surprises me is that you get floods of comments for something that is of no great significance, and yet for an issue like this, which is _extremely_ important, there are few, if any.
Then again, I suppose it is difficult to find somethng to say which has not already been said a thousand times.
Vic
September 23rd, 2005 at 8:38 am
Problem is, the ppl who need influencing will probly never even know this site exists, let alone ever see my comments. I’m just hoping their kids get the chance to figure it out for themselves. Tho i’m sure the cartels will do their darndest to ensure they don’t get that chance.
As for my offensive comments? Sometimes you gotta annoy ppl to get their attention. At least that’s my theory about most mainscream ads these days. It seems like they’re all designed to annoy just to get ppl talking about how annoying they are.
But if the comments cause some debate or discussion (even just “how we gonna hunt him down and kill him?”) that’s gotta be better than no discussion about the topics at all.
January 20th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
This is because the ideas promoted here are, at various times, naive, exaggerated, simplistic, and generally ignorant.