Tame RIAA politicians denounce other countries
THE RIAA has got its tame politicians in the US congress to rail at other nations that don't hold such a jack-booted attitude toward copyright infringement as the Land of the Free.
Canada, China, Mexico, Russia and Spain were damned by the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus for tolerating "alarming levels" of infringement of copyrighted movies, music, video games and other entertainment.
Quoting RIAA figures claiming that lack of copyright enforcement in these countries costs its corporate members billions of dollars and the US "millions of jobs", the caucus slammed China in particular.
According to the AP, the caucus said the Chinese government pretends to honour copyrights but still allows "piracy" to flourish in the online marketplace via an array of nefarious illegal websites, file storage sites and user generated content sites.
It singled out Baidu, China's largest Internet search engine, as being "responsible for the vast majority of illegal music downloading in China." That's interesting, because Baidu does the same thing as Google which, as a powerful US company, the music industry has not dared to denounce.
The report said that while Russia has made "some progress" in respecting intellectual property rights over the past few years, "much work remains before we can support Russia's accession to the rules-based World Trade Organisation [WTO]."
In other words it is calling on the US government to oppose Russia's entry into the WTO until it toes the line on enforcing entertainment industry copyrights, if not a return to Cold War rhetoric.
Never mind any more important issues like regional political tensions, human rights or European access to Russian energy supplies, for no more important issues than copyright enforcement exist, in the eyes of the Big Music cartel and its tame US politicians.
It seems almost as though the entertainment mafiaa would like the US to mount a cross-border raid into Canada over its perceived lack of draconian copyright enforcement and wants the US to treat its NATO ally Spain as a pariah for having the temerity to say that peer-to-peer file sharing over the Internet isn't a crime.
While there is no indication that US President Obama will make the grave mistake of listening to the music and film industries and allowing them to influence his administration's foreign policy, the lawmakers' statement does show how much power the RIAA thinks it has in Washington, DC.
Unless the power of this US-based entertainment lobby is reined in, all sense of perspective might be lost. If the Big Music Mafiaa would have its way, World War Three might then be started over a file-shared Britney Spears tune or copy of Rocky 9, with NATO allies the first to be nuked. µ
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The RIAA is your typical lobby.
If they can ask for something, they 'll ask for it. If they can sue someone, they 'll sue him. They 'll keep demanding until they get what they want. Typical lobbyists.
"Who knows, it might succeed" appears to be their motto. "The more pressure we put, the better". "They 'll bend eventually and listen to our ridiculous demands".
They know Obama doesn't give a shit about their copyrights (and well he does). They know the draconian internet monitoring measures they are asking are outright ridiculous for such a silly crime as copyright infringement. But... if by some rare diabolic coincidence Obama listens to them and really asks from Spain to tighten copyright laws? That will be a success for them. And that's why they keep demanding. Because there is still an one in a billion chance they might actually see their ridiculous demands be fulfilled.
Too pity this kind of thinking has grown old these days. The lobbyist way has gone down along with other conservative values that plagued the US the last decade... Thank god.
...Obama's Justice Department (including two top jobs) is stuffed full of RIAA lawyers.
Well if I was an inhabitant of china or russia and i'm on £2 a day I for one would not buy a reatail copy of anything that is over a weeks wages.
It's like us spending £100 for a CD or DVD.
Get real RIAA.
Is Obama's choice for vice president, Joe Biden, has been in the pocket of the media lobbyists for quite some time.
I think the U.S. has lost the pulpit on specifying how other countries should run themselves. Excessive fining and jailing of small time copyright infringers while letting big time financial criminals take over the country is not something anyone should be harping about especially in these cash-poor consumer times.
Otoh, maybe it's not about totalitarian control by the RIAA of the individual this time but a matter of economics being that it's one of the few profitable U.S. industries that provides a product that is sold to other countries to help offset trade imbalances.
Carpet bomb the USA with BC bud.
I believe the RIAA are already full of cocaine. buds will just bounce off them.
I have been trying to buy some music (not rap, punk or metal) and what ever else Australian noise industry passes for music these days.
Majority of the titles I wont have been ‘deleted’ or ‘not for sale’ in Australia. This is the official line from representatives from all big CD stores in Sydney. Smaller stores purchase from the same catalogue so same story there.
The irony is, it would actually be cheaper to order 10 CDs from US or EU and have them air mailed me then going to the store and paying $30+ for each disk. The only problem is, I don’t buy CDs in lots of 10 but one or two at a time.
Surprisingly, it is still illegal to download music that is ‘deleted’ or ‘not for sale’. Why? Who exactly misses out on music that I can’t buy?
The lawyers have infiltrated our judicial system, partially nullifying it.
Get ready for the end times folks, USA is on its way to destroying itself. As someone wise once told me--
"tuck your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye!"