p2pnet - rss feed: Ex-RIAA boss joins ‘p2p’ firm
p2p news / p2pnet: Of the various dodgy upcoming corporate ‘p2p’ apps, the DRM-laded Peer Impact shines.
Organized Music per se is refusing to accept that p2p file sharing is here to stay and that trying to sue consumers into buying product just ain’t gonna work.
However, that doesn’t mean the OM family isn’t aware that digital is slowly but inexorably replacing physical and accordingly, its members are desperately trying to butter their bread on both sides, not to mention having their cake and eating it.
Vivendi Universal, EMI Group, Warner Music and Sony BMG are supplying the only viable corporate music site, Apples iTunes, and silently backing other enterprises founded on the belief that if they put p2p and/or peer-to-peer prominently in their advertising blurb, enough suckers will bite to make it all worthwhile.
In this respect, pre-eminent among the Big Four OM members is Sony BMG which has former executives at Mashboxx (chaired by ex-Blubster and Grokster boss Wayne Rosso) and iMesh, which was virtually taken overt by OM’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
Each has an ex-Sony BMG executive at the helm, ex-Sony Music boss Robert Summer in the case of iMesh, and Sony’s Andy Lack in the case of Mashboxx.
But Wurld Media’s Peer Impact has trumped them, adding an ex-RIAA boss and double-speak master to its roster of directors.
Jay Berman, an expert at presenting black as white, recently retired from the IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry), the Organised Music-owned faux trade organisation whose disingenuous reports are routinely quoted by the mainstream media as factual.
He also used to run the RIAA and his presence will lend, and we do mean lend, credibility to a company which has little.
Berman has spent much of his time trying to crush p2p file sharing. Now, ironically, he admits, “Digital distribution has forever changed the way that consumers discover and purchase their music and other entertainment content.”
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
- Mohandas Gandhi
Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local political representatives. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance.
See:-
Peer Impact shines - Peer Impact and DRM, August 19, 2005
Wurld Media - WURLD MEDIA APPOINTS NEW BOARD MEMBER, November 7, 2005
November 12th, 2005 at 3:59 pm
Don’t you know that this is a tried and tested way to take over from the inside? This technique is used to great success in many business ventures, and now it is just being employed a bit more openly. The RIAA knows that digital is here to stay, and all these guys that join company forces in an attempt to blend in are just taking the opportunities out of our hands and keeping the reigns of power in their grasp. If anyone has half a brain, they would avoid doing business with any of these quislings, as the first thing they will do is make sure their profits are maximized while the customer rights will be forced into the basements and locked away so securely you will NEVER be able to get out from under their control. Let us hope consumers are smarter than that. Either that, or we are all doomed to a life of trash and DRM infected files that won’t allow anyone to do anything at all with them.