Truth and consequences
p2p news / p2pnet: "As the recording industry tries to block file trading of songs across peer-to-peer networks, blogs and other viral distribution channels, the major labels suddenly have a whole new piracy concern: music videos."
That’s a quote from Billboard highlighted in a Reader’s Write to p2pnet’s Free speech in Canada.
The Free speech post was a, "kind of Thank You note to Nikki Hemming and Sharman Networks for initiating an experience through which I’ve met Wenda Atkin and Ruth Hatton in Ontario, Dan Burnett in BC, Mireille and Claude in Quebec, Gerald in Germany, JP in France, and a lot of other people in a lot of other countries," as I said in the article, which explains why I’m grateful to Kazaa owner Sharman Networks boss Nikki Hemming for launching a specious libel suit against me.
A frequent p2pnet poster asks in a comment:
Why would they try and ‘block blogs’? Why would a blog be a ‘viral distribution channel’? "
It’s not, and we all know that. Whoever wrote that probably knows it too.
It’s all part of the same campaign to lock down the internet for the same reasons: to stifle potential competition.
The RIAA has used everything from Porn to Terrorism to criminalize P2P, not because of revenue, but because p2p creates a way for the unsigned artists and bands to be heard, without having to pay a cut to them.
Since the unsigned GREATLY outnumber the acts they control, the competition is incredible.
The RIAA fears THIS more than anything.
Now, think about how many times blogs have either ’scooped’ mainstream news or blasted out news that maintream sources tried desperately to ignore or hide.
This makes the blogosphere a major source of competition for those who have traditionally held the keys to all media.
Competition and control is really the root of all of this. It doesn’t surprise me that yet ANOTHER falsehood is being portrayed as truth to further vilify the competition.
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July 1st, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Doesn’t the “media” and the “government” go co-habitate together nowadays??? Think about that. It’s all about “control” alright!
What a legacy the children of this world are inheriting.
July 2nd, 2006 at 12:08 am
Yes, these kids are inheriting an underground, but a TRUE underground at that, block the blogs, stop the p2p,, we don’t really give a shit because we’re better than them, we’ll always be better than them.
The reason is that we’re not doing this for our paycheck, we’re doing this for the will to live, the will to express yourself, the will to be a human even.
So yeah, take the blogs, we don’t really care.
July 2nd, 2006 at 9:59 am
How do you know anyone lied about anything?
The only way for you to claim it’s all lies is if you are someone within Sharman who know the actual stuff, and if thats the case then you would surly claim its all lies even if its all true.
You see the logic why your post is absurd?
July 2nd, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Music videos are adverts for the songs. So they are effectively blocking their own adverts.