German music fans attacked
p2p news / p2pnet: The Big Four Organized Music cartel’s IFPI has warmly “welcomed” civil and criminal proceedings launched today against eDonkey users in Germany who are alleged to have shared music with each other.
“Police today searched 130 premises to gather evidence in the investigations, which have been running for several months,” says the IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry). “The actions are coordinated by the Public Prosecution Service of Cologne and the Police Authority of Bergheim.”
“On behalf of the recording industry, IFPI thanks the police for a great piece of teamwork and a superb investigation success,” said the IFPI’s German rep Michael Haentjes of Edel Music.
The Big Four, Sony BMG, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Warner Music, have two favourite practises: use real police as industry cops; and, dress up ‘operatives’ as cops.
In the former case, national police forces around the world are suborned at tax-payer expense to conduct ‘operations’ with industry faux police working alongside them; and in the latter instance, they do their best to give the impression that they’re authorised law officers.
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May 23rd, 2006 at 2:58 pm
German music fans shiver in fear … NOT!
Nothing changes, all is quiet on the digital front.
May 24th, 2006 at 12:13 am
This is [again!] totally disgusting – a report I read suggested criminal charges will be laid against 3,500 uploaders – as if having your customers in jail is going to help your bottom line – perhaps we should all [250 million of us] go down to our local cop shop and hand ourselves in and demand a prison sentence maybe then they will get a clue that we are the people they are supposed to be attracting. I will say it one last time:
YOU CANT LITIGATE YOUR WAY INTO A MARKET!
May 24th, 2006 at 5:05 am
Maybe the muzakbigbiz should check this story out and then run around in circles screaming “The sky is falling!” or something equally useful. After all, this is proof that you CAN make money without using DRM.
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/emusic.ars
So mr muzakbigbiz would you care to explain exactly why you feel you need DRM again? Since it’s so obviously unnecessary?