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p2p news / p2pnet: Organized Music members Vivendi Universal (France), EMI (Britain), Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) and Warner Music are in a flat-out panic over a new Italian bill, already approved by the Italian Lower Chamber.
The Ex-Cirielli Law could stop them from trying to terrorize online Italian music fans into buy ‘product,’ also ending most pending criminal anti-piracy trials before they go to court. It would shorten the period after which criminal cases pending trial are automatically dismissed.
It “deals a huge blow to the Italian music industry and to all IP industries in the country,” says head IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) spin-meister John Kennedy .
Now the IFPI, owned by the Organized Music cartel, is desperately attempting field the message that Ex-Cirielli is inconsistent with international rules on enforcement of intellectual property and will put Italy out of line with other developed countries.
The change, from seven-and-a half to six years, would affect 75% of all pending criminal cases brought by OM, which can take up to nine years to go to trial.
Of 471 cases pending in 2004, 382 would be dismissed and similar figures are expected for 2005.
“This bill will erode investment in music, encourage organised crime, fuel corruption and cost the Italian government tens of millions of euros in lost revenue,” raves Kennedy.
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.
November 14th, 2005 at 10:15 pm
“This bill will erode investment in music, encourage organised crime, fuel corruption and cost the Italian government tens of millions of euros in lost revenue,” raves Kennedy.
It will also destroy the ozone, kidnap small children, cause global nuclear war, and spew toxic gases.
November 14th, 2005 at 11:26 pm
and it’ll make strong men weep and and …………………….
November 14th, 2005 at 11:32 pm
Yep, the end times are here. No doubt about it …
November 15th, 2005 at 3:50 am
What’s there to buy ?
Restricted CD’s that are guaranteed to infect your PC with viruses ?
Uh!!!, no way !
November 15th, 2005 at 8:50 am
“This bill will erode investment in music, encourage organised crime, fuel corruption and cost the Italian government tens of millions of euros in lost revenue,” raves Kennedy.
Wrong. It will save the courts time and taxpayers money, which is just as good as increasing the govts revenue. Like the old saying, a penny saved is a penny earned.
The best bit is, once the italian bureaucracy starts raving about how much money they’re saving by dumping these trials, i’m sure the rest of the EU will follow suit.
And THAT is what Kennedy is so scared of.
November 15th, 2005 at 10:46 am
Another thing that hasn’t hit the countries where all this infringement madness is going on is that at some point either these cases must be tried or dropped. If going to trial, the cartels have been pushing for jail times. At no point have they been particularly in a hurry to get these cases through.
At some point 14,000+ (or whatever the latest figure is) will each have to have their day in court. Imagine the log jam this is going to make in court time. There are already no where near enough jail space so either some other arrangement will have to be made or a lot of someones already there will have to go free to have the space. I don’t hear the cartels offering to help build those jails for all the potential jailmates they are ready to make. This idiocy will have to run its course and a few more oops like the Sony disaster may well turn the tide.
At present the US is on the verge of a resession and these politicians both local and at higher levels will have to figure out just what is most important to pay for.
I would hate to see anyone put to the pedestal as a martor, much less a sizeable new population. However this copyright insanity has gone way too far in its scope and reach.
I am doing my part, not a single dollar for the cartels. How about you?
November 15th, 2005 at 11:06 am
kewl
November 15th, 2005 at 1:26 pm
“This bill will erode investment in music, encourage organised crime, fuel corruption and cost the Italian government tens of millions of euros in lost revenue,” raves Kennedy.”
1. Music is an artform, not usful for investment, as are shares of a company.
2. The criminalization of enjoying music can only increase the control of music by organized crime, that being the publishers and record companies that have subjugated the songwriters and the artists (and some politicians and judges alng the way), and of course the public, who is fed payola junk music that gets worse by the day, while the better music and artists are hear less and less.
3. The Italian government? The government is supposed to be a servant of the people and what the music mafia is trying to do is to prevent the saving of money by the people. The music mafia must think that the Italian government is really so narrow minded and self centered that it will swllow the inverted logic thrown at them, as the American and other government burocrats have done. The money saved by the people when they do not buy the overprized crap music sold by the cartels will be a boost to the economy of the people.
Why does the music mafia keep i”This bill will erode investment in music, encourage organised crime, fuel corruption and cost the Italian government tens of millions of euros in lost revenue,” raves Kennedy.? It can only accelated the dissapearance of their crap music.
The whole thing reminds of the argument that war is good because it increases investments in the war industries.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
November 15th, 2005 at 1:33 pm
Why does the music mafia keep i”This bill will erode investment in music, encourage organised crime, fuel corruption and cost the Italian government tens of millions of euros in lost revenue,” raves Kennedy.? It can only accelated the dissapearance of their crap music.
Correction:
The above text was inserted by mistake. A cut and paste error. Sorry.
Rafael Venegas
November 15th, 2005 at 1:41 pm
When the P.S.A. was the United States, there was the right to a fair and speedy trial. That right is protected under the Constitution. A law like this here in the P.S.A. would be good for bring the government as well as the entertainment cartel back in line. I however, doubt that will happen. Even if a similar law was passed, it would most likely be ignore or summarily ruled against. The court and government here are truly corrupt.
November 16th, 2005 at 1:14 pm
“there was the right to a fair and speedy trial. That right is protected under the Constitution.”
These are just words under the Constitution, that apply only to criminal proceedings. It was placed in the Constitution when civil lawsuits hardly existed, when civil matters were settled by duels, fist fights or plain intimidation of the weak by the strong. It is absurd that for civil lawsuits there is no guarantee of a speedy trial. Of course that would be bad for the legal business.
My family has been part of 10 lawsuits, all related to the theft of the music composed by my father. Only one of the lawsuits if finished. It lasted 7 years. My opinion is that the judge could have decided in a few minutes as to who was guilty of what and a few hours to asses the damages.
One lawsuit that started in 2000. Progress: Absolutely zero percent of the work has been completed. Essentially the case has not begun.
This is the number of months that each case required or have been running (+ means that the case is still running):
78, 60+, 60+, 60+, 60+, 60+. 64+, 64 +, 22+, 6+.
Funny thing, in one of these cases we obtained a $1.6 million award of damages fron a record company. The record company appealed to a different judge and in one month the sentence was reduced to $200,000. We appealed and the appeals court ordered the judge to raise the sentence. That was 17 months ago. Since then the judge has not been heard of, and the ordered sentence revision is much easier, a matter of minutes, than the reduction that only took one month.
As you may see the right to a speedy trial is nothing more than a mirage. The “fair” part is another mirage. Anyone in doubt may visit ouer web page.
BTW, all the cases are here in Puerto Rico where supposedly the American Constitution applies. Of course, everything is fiction here.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
May 29th, 2007 at 7:32 am
i understand what your saying but my beef is with italian music.it is 20 years behind and always sing the same melody.why cant they try something diffrent and be creative and they have san remo festival,just like eurovision,it sucks.why do al bano and gianni morandi still try to win this shitty festival.it seems to me the italian music industry have way to much time on their hands and sing the same crap.dont get me wrong,italy is a fantastic place to visit and wonderfull food with fantastic people and they have passion for sports like football and ferrari f1 team,which is madly insane,in a the nicest possible way,but the music needs to evolve and stop singing poofta songs and get a life.
August 14th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
this is not the only awul think italian gov. did : a lot of law aganist individual freedoms and a lot of law to limit richness. I think italy is the only contry in the world where is a real form of comunism. The party at the power now has in his coalition a party called “refoudation of comunism” and their votes is too much important for life of this shitty gov.