Big Music cartel 'settlements'
The criminals aren't the people who have had enough of being ripped off by the cartel. Nor are the p2p networks and application operators (they could have, and should have, been used by the labels to enter the digital 21st century) the means by which crimes are being committed.
The true criminals are the highly skilled international organized crime gangs who routinely dance rings around the record label and move studio cartel executives who run the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's), BPI (British Phonographic Industry), and so on.
Gundersen says, "Unlike iTunes or Napster, enthusiast sites place community above commerce, earning credibility and loyalty that are crucial to luring youth dollars. That's one of the sticky challenges facing an industry that alienated downloaders with steep CD prices and piracy lawsuits."
Music industry spin doctors use the 'settlements' as PR fodder. They tell the media they've successfully 'sued' thousands of people for breaking the law: for sharing files, in the process depriving them of their rightful earnings.
That these people have 'settled' is used to suggest that by doing so, they've admitted guilt of some kind.
However, none of this is true, or even nearly true.
And no one has been sued.
What's happened is: approaching 10,000 people have received frightening subpoenas, documents most of them had never heard of before, let alone actually seen. But not one of the subpoena recipients has ever appeared in a court, and fewer than 2,000 'cases' have actually been 'settled'.
An average $3,000 settlement multiplied 2,000 times comes to what? And the labels have never said where the money goes. But you can bet it doesn't reach the hands of the hard-pressed workers the industry holds up as victims of file sharing.
Most of those who agreed to buy the RIAA off did so only because they literally had no other alternative.
They simply didn't, and don’t, have the financial or legal resources to take on the multi-billion-dollar industry with its bottomless pockets, teams of lawyers and obscene political influence.
It’s as if the labels have taken the famous line from Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather where Brando says chillingly, "I'll make him an offer he don't refuse."
Well, the RIAA makes its victims offers they don’t refuse – Pay us. Or else.
As RIAA spokesman Jonathon Lamy admits in the Village Voice, so far, "none have come to trial”.
And none will unless, by some awful mistake, the RIAA tries to nail someone important; someone with money and legal and political clout who can take them on in a fair and equal court trial.
Not guilty
In the meanwhile, no one has ever been found guilty of the crime of ‘file sharing,’ all the mainstream media reports to the contrary notwithstanding.
The time-honoured, almost sacred, principal of Innocent until proven Guilty is mocked by the entertainment industry which, with the active and enthusiastic assistance of the mainstream media, regularly and routinely holds people of all ages up as criminals who have been tried and convicted of the heinous crime of sharing with each other online.
And while all of this happens the true criminals – the counterfeiters and duplicators who use the readily and universally available physical software, music and movie CDs and DVDs as masters with which they make and sell their own ‘product’ underground – count their profits, virtually unscathed.
Jon Newton
BERY BERY INTRESTING!!! not one trial all these people touted as guilty with out a single trial! sounds like slander to me. to tired to write more this was the last part of the article read more here(p2pnet.net article)
-good night
The criminals aren't the people who have had enough of being ripped off by the cartel. Nor are the p2p networks and application operators (they could have, and should have, been used by the labels to enter the digital 21st century) the means by which crimes are being committed.
The true criminals are the highly skilled international organized crime gangs who routinely dance rings around the record label and move studio cartel executives who run the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's), BPI (British Phonographic Industry), and so on.
Gundersen says, "Unlike iTunes or Napster, enthusiast sites place community above commerce, earning credibility and loyalty that are crucial to luring youth dollars. That's one of the sticky challenges facing an industry that alienated downloaders with steep CD prices and piracy lawsuits."
Music industry spin doctors use the 'settlements' as PR fodder. They tell the media they've successfully 'sued' thousands of people for breaking the law: for sharing files, in the process depriving them of their rightful earnings.
That these people have 'settled' is used to suggest that by doing so, they've admitted guilt of some kind.
However, none of this is true, or even nearly true.
And no one has been sued.
What's happened is: approaching 10,000 people have received frightening subpoenas, documents most of them had never heard of before, let alone actually seen. But not one of the subpoena recipients has ever appeared in a court, and fewer than 2,000 'cases' have actually been 'settled'.
An average $3,000 settlement multiplied 2,000 times comes to what? And the labels have never said where the money goes. But you can bet it doesn't reach the hands of the hard-pressed workers the industry holds up as victims of file sharing.
Most of those who agreed to buy the RIAA off did so only because they literally had no other alternative.
They simply didn't, and don’t, have the financial or legal resources to take on the multi-billion-dollar industry with its bottomless pockets, teams of lawyers and obscene political influence.
It’s as if the labels have taken the famous line from Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather where Brando says chillingly, "I'll make him an offer he don't refuse."
Well, the RIAA makes its victims offers they don’t refuse – Pay us. Or else.
As RIAA spokesman Jonathon Lamy admits in the Village Voice, so far, "none have come to trial”.
And none will unless, by some awful mistake, the RIAA tries to nail someone important; someone with money and legal and political clout who can take them on in a fair and equal court trial.
Not guilty
In the meanwhile, no one has ever been found guilty of the crime of ‘file sharing,’ all the mainstream media reports to the contrary notwithstanding.
The time-honoured, almost sacred, principal of Innocent until proven Guilty is mocked by the entertainment industry which, with the active and enthusiastic assistance of the mainstream media, regularly and routinely holds people of all ages up as criminals who have been tried and convicted of the heinous crime of sharing with each other online.
And while all of this happens the true criminals – the counterfeiters and duplicators who use the readily and universally available physical software, music and movie CDs and DVDs as masters with which they make and sell their own ‘product’ underground – count their profits, virtually unscathed.
Jon Newton
BERY BERY INTRESTING!!! not one trial all these people touted as guilty with out a single trial! sounds like slander to me. to tired to write more this was the last part of the article read more here(p2pnet.net article)
-good night
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