Kill AllofMP3.com, BPI tells Putin
p2p news / p2pnet: In an act of absolutely astounding arrogance, the BPI (British Phonographic Industry), the so-called ‘trade’ unit owned by Warner Music, Vivendi Universal, EMI and Sony BMG, is demanding that UK foreign secretary Margaret Beckett raises its attempt to crush p2p site AllofMP3.com with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the G8 summit.
The members of the Big Four Organized Music cartel have awarded themselves nationhood status and routinely lecture and hector governments and heads of state for failing to toe the corporate bottom line, also using international enforcement agencies, funded by local taxpayers, as copyright cops.
But this is extreme even for the Big Four.
“BPI Chairman Peter Jamieson said he had written to Mrs Beckett, asking her to ‘urge the Russian government to take action against the operators of the site by insisting that it is removed from the internet,” says the BBC.
AllofMP3.com, based in Russia, is an anathema to the cartels representing, as it does, both a form of competition and a perfect example of how, “different markets can, and should, price music according to the public’s purchase power,” as Fading Ways Music owner Neil Leyton told delegates at the recent Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) conference in Paris, France.
The site charges by file size rather than per item and its rates are far lower than the usurious $1 and Warner Music, Vivendi Universal, EMI and Sony BMG customers are forced to charge for their downloads.
The labels demand, and get, between 60 and 85 cents wholesale for each music file. This means iTunes, for example, wants £9.79 (almost $18.20) for an album where an AllofMP3.comn typically pays only about £0.75 (about $1.40) for a download.
The Big Four idea of a fair charge is to think of a number and double it, and they’re currently being investigated for price fixing and bribery at federal and state levels in the US, a fact rarely if ever mentioned by the mainstream media.
Digg this.
Also See:
BBC – Call for ‘illegal’ MP3 site talks, July 14, 2006
told delegates – Paris TACD conference, June 29, 2006
price fixing and bribery – UMG goes down in bribery case, May 12, 2006
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July 15th, 2006 at 10:05 am
The G8 meetings – especially THIS ONE! – is not the place for this type of action or lobbying.
The bastards who operate the BPI (RIAA, MPAA, etc. are probably in on this too), have shown by their request (read “order”) that Beckett pressure Russia to close Allofmp3.com – a legal business – that they have absolutely no regard for human life, dignity, or the pursuit of peace and happiness in the world.
Their only regard is for profit and how to monopolise their respective industries, squeezing out competition and milking customers dry.
When war is raging between Israel, Gaza, and the Hezbollah in Lebanon…when civil war is going on in Iraq, Somalia and Ethiopia…when freedoms and human rights are being taken away from POWs in US custody…the cartels only think of themselves and their stockholders, and not the lives of the people – innocent and guilty, civilian and miltary, and children – who are being killed and tortured daily.
The aim of G8 meetings – especially THIS ONE! – is not to highlight issues of the thieving, lying multinational corporations in the entertainment industry. Their job, their ONLY job – especially at THIS G8 MEETING! – is to look for ways to stop the killing and torture and other human rights abuses in order to bring peace and stability (even pockets of it) to the world – if that’s at all possible.
A G8 meeting is not a forum or an “open mic night” for the cartels to spout their lies and complain that filesharing or cheaper alternatives are ruining their business.
Take a look at the news headlines and see what’s happening in the real world.
I’m not a fan of the NWO and Don’t agree with ninety-nine percent of what they do, but at least let them try to do their jobs without you bastards elbowing your way into government policy.
To paraphrase from “Casablanca”:
“It doesn’t take much to see that the problems of the thieving, lying BPI (and other entertainment cartels) bastards don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday they’ll understand that.”
(To Warner: Just try and sue me for copyright infringement for paraphrasing a quote from a film that’s in the collective consciousness of the world. The quote is readily available on thousands of websites. You wanna sue anyone, start with Google.
And to the BPI and other bastard cartel members: I’d like to see you sue me for libel and defamation. Just try it and see where it gets you.)
July 15th, 2006 at 10:50 am
There is just one fundamental difference between AllofMP3 and other services who charge for downloads–those who actually wrote, composed and produced the music do get paid. None of that happens with AllofMP3. So before claiming that $1 per song is usurious and AllofMP3 offers better value, just think about who makes a buck or two… AllofMP3 are not philanthropists, they make profits too, but on the back of musicians and, yes, labels.
July 17th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
“those who actually wrote, composed and produced the music do get paid. None of that happens with AllofMP3.”
[citation needed]
your proof for that claim comes from whom?
as far as i understand the (more objective) reports about this russian distribution channel, they have a license with russian equivalent of GEMA BEMI ASCAP and co.
And the western artist just don’t get any money because THEIR organisations ACTIVELY REFUSE to make deals with the russion licensors for allofmp3 (IIRC: ROMS)
So its NOT the sites fault that only russian artists get money from there, but its the fault of the greedy western corporations that don’t want to make business with allofmp3
July 18th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Excellent ost.
I can only add…
It takes two to tango. The bastards who operate the BPI and the bastard politicians/statemen who have sold their conciense and who do not have the valor of telling the BPI publicly what this poster is saying, that they have their priorities all wrong.
July 20th, 2006 at 5:16 am
I agree with you somewhat, but chill down
July 21st, 2006 at 12:41 pm
You have the astounding arrogance for thinking it is alright to steal music just so you can get a “market price.” Did it ever, ever occur to you that allofmp3 can get you that price because it shafts the recordiing artist and the copyright holder>?
Copyrights are not some unfair shackle. They are a legitimate and honorable way to safeguard rights. You are supporters of pirates.
August 14th, 2006 at 3:40 am
hoschisch panuchat por ?
Die U Bastard above!!!
April 21st, 2008 at 12:12 pm
The whole idea that they can catch people looking at illegal videos simply by monitoring the filenames is beyond scary.