Big Music at G8 summit
p2p news / p2pnet: Warner Music, Vivendi Universal, EMI and Sony BMG’s BPI (British Phonographic Industry) is cynically chivying UK foreign secretary Margaret Beckett to get Russian president Vladimir Putin to stomp p2p download site AllofMP3.com at the G8 meeting slated to start today.
No, it’s not a spoof and, “The G8 meetings – especially THIS ONE! – is not the place for this type of action or lobbying,” posts catflap in a Reader’s Write. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
G8 meeting is not a p2pnetforum or an "open mic night" for the cartels
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.)
Also See:
not a spoof – Senate Telecom Overseer Not Plugged In to Web, July 15, 2006
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July 15th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Well said!
Whenever you think this mob couldn’t sink any lower they somehow manage to break through the decency barrier once again.
For probably over a year (when initially I became aware of their child suing, blind Grandmother suing, broke student suing attitudes) I have bought nothing whatsoever from any of them, whereas I used to make several purchages a month. Now I buy strictly used CDs DVDs etc., it’s amazing just how quickly these become available on Ebay or Amazon Z-shops etc. I also vow (a vow I know I shall keep!) never to buy anything from them again.
It would be great if some of you lousy fuckers (BPI,RIAA, MPAA and all equivalents) read this, then considered that there are probably an awful lot of people reacting to your discraceful, overbloated, ridiculously self-important attitudedes the same way that I am. I certainly encourage all of you to do so.
Whereas in the past I used to feel that they were actually giving us a reasonable service, I now have nothing but an unreversible contempt for them. I hope they all rot in hell.
July 15th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
Again, well said.
For everyone of us here that you do see in type, there are literally thousands that aren’t responding on this forum that feel the same way.
I’m another that is vocal about this and do the same as the one above me. It isn’t the cartels choice of what I will or will not support with my money. Simply, my money is a vote for what I believe in. I don’t believe in the actions of the cartels as being in my best interests. Therefore, I’m on boycott, totally ceasing to become a “consumer” (I HATE that word, as I along with the rest of the potential buying public are customers and should at least be granted the respect that without us, there is no cartel funded, no entertainment sources funded, no greedy corporations funded.)
So kiss your steady income goodbye by another dissatisfied ex-customer. With this grassroots type decisions, one at a time, begins the source of the downfall of this sort of greed.
July 16th, 2006 at 10:05 am
With media such as music, TV or films, nothing is ‘consumed’, so you can’t really be considered a ‘consumer’ of these things. The cartels are still operating with business models that commoditizes their ‘product’ like a bag of chips or a box of laundry detergent, believing that their ‘consumers’ will have to go buy more when they run out. The caretls then have a tantrum and file lawsuits when some of their customers have the tumerity not to comply with the assumptions of a flawed, obsolete paradigm.
–TG
July 16th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
I agree that this is outrageous. My only quibble with this article is that allofmp3.com isn’t a p2p site, as far as I can tell.
July 16th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
thanks.
you’re right…and i never said or implied it was a p2p site:
“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.”