p2pnet - rss feed: Frulla backs Big Music
p2pnet.net News:- The Big Music cartel is to be given access to Canadian school children, promises Canadian heritage minister Liza Frulla. And, “We’ll also be addressing the peer-to-peer issue,” she told the Winnipeg Free Press in a report quoted by the CBC.
“It will give the tools to companies and authors to sue.”
In the US and Britain, ‘copyright law’ has already been added to the three Rs; and, the members of the Big Four music cartel, none of whom have a significant presence in Canada, routinely invade classrooms to promote ‘educational’ programs to kids, and use teaching institutions as sales and marketing outlets, with administrators, supported by taxpayers, as unpaid staff.
The CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America) has been trying to do the same in Canada, but with a marked lack of success.
Frulla wants to remedy this, using the 2005 Big Music Juno advertising fest to make it clear she’ll follow the path laid out by her predecessor Hélène Chalifour Scherrer who, exactly a year ago, promised to re-organize Canada’s copyright act to enable the music cartels to sue Canadians for sharing music online.
“Frulla expressed her intention to toughen Canada’s ‘antiquated’ intellectual property laws through proposed new copyright legislation to be tabled in June,” says the CBC, quoting the Winnipeg Free Press.
‘Antiquated’ is a word much favoured by the music industry whose antiquated business practices are wholly responsible for the fact they’re unable to deal with the reality that they’re now in the digital 21st century.
When the minister talks about giving “tools” to “sue,” she’s referring to the fact that at the moment, the cartel can’t use Canadian law to terrorize online music lovers into buying over-priced and inferior ‘product’ (as the cartel terms the mp3 tracks it’s trying unsuccessfully to market) by threatening them with legal action of they don’t.
Across the border, close to 10,000 ordinary people have been mis-characterized as criminals and, thanks to cartel PR, most American are under the entirely false impression that file sharing is a crime.
The music industry says it’s successfully ’sued’ these people for breaking the law: for sharing files. However, every one of the cartel victims has settled out of court, being unable to take the multi-billion-dollar industry on by themselves. Big Music uses this to imply the people it’s persecuting have admitted guilt of some kind.
The music industry, “has long blamed peer-to-peer file-sharing and music downloading for declining music sales,” says the CBC.
This isn’t the case, however, as an ever increasing body of evidence, such as the most recent, a Japanese study, clearly proves.
Big Music also claims its legal actions are significantly reducing file sharing. In fact this, too, is manifestly untrue, as a number of academic and other studies, including a recent OECD report, amply demonstrate.
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See:-
CBC - Frulla promotes tougher copyright laws, April 4, 2005
unpaid staff - Big Music goes after Princeton, p2pnet, April 3, 2005
exactly a year ago - Canada’s Paul Martin wins Juno award!, p2pnet, April 4, 2004
can’t use Canadian law - Downloading music, CBC, June 30, 2004
settled out of court - File sharing, p2p criminals, p2pnet, March 12, 2005
Japanese study - Is p2p killing CD sales?, p2pnet, March 28, 2005S
OECD - P2p file sharing is increasing, p2pnet, January 4, 2005
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April 5th, 2005 at 7:57 pm
How do we stop this!!
April 5th, 2005 at 8:07 pm
Go here: http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/
And get some friends together to raise hell with your local MP. Bug your local media (tv, radio, print) outlets.
Make a fuss, and tell everyone you know to do the same : )
Cheers!
April 6th, 2005 at 12:01 am
Watch out, the RIAA isnt taking their stinging defeat in the Canadian legal system sitting down. I wish you guys the best for common sense to win, so ironic that a single industry can have so much dominating power over virtually everything we do in life. Digital rights management/Intellectual Property can be applied to just about anything, which is a problem not just because pirates want to steal free things and sell for a treasure trove of profits, but because of the immense discomfort to consumers that rules and limits are created.
Its funny how when things are allowed (legal) in a country, one just gives money, kiss up to people and be best buddies to get the political influence to create new laws to make things illegal.
People have a mind set that something illegal is some taboo that is evil, but in corporations today (or in this case cartels/monopolies) they just create laws that make things were legal before, become illegal.
Funny how if these companies didnt influence the politicians to pass laws, then many ‘illegal’ activies would be legal and a vast majority of people wouldnt have a problem with the activities then. (this is of course still needs common sense as selling unauthorized material for profit).
April 6th, 2005 at 1:00 am
These companies claim capitalism, but lobby for tech mandates such as the DMCA and other such laws designed specifically to hand them regulatory control over their competitors.. (in the case of DRM the facts show that copyright industries control the standards.. all they need do is incorporate DRM into the standard and now they suddenly have total regulatory control over all devices which interact with it thanks to the DMCA)
There is no denying the analysis. drm protection law results in a tech sector which is a centrally controlled “command economy”.. a close relative of soviet style communism. I find it really interesting the true communists are calling copyright reformers commies for wanting to restore the free market… i find it more interesting how idiotic or down right corrupt our legislators are to buy their bull.
April 6th, 2005 at 1:33 am
Voice your complaints and concerns to her!
Let her know how wrong this is!
Her email: Frulla.L@parl.gc.ca
Contact Info: http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/senmemb/house/members/MemberDetails.asp?Language=E&OrgCId=16&Parl=38&PersonId=3204
April 6th, 2005 at 2:28 am
much thanks…to the rest of you, how much time does an email take? throw some links in, don’t let adscam become a p2pscam and with the liberals we have to be vigilant.
TT
April 6th, 2005 at 5:06 am
i’d do it.. but i’m american.
sadly.. “prospective” canadian citizens are not allowed to participate even to that extent unless they become actual citizens.
unfortunately i’m not yet in position to do that… though if the anticircumvention laws stay connected with actual infringement where they belong i may be able to develop multimedia programs with circumvention tools and would have to move to canada to start that venture..
(more jobs and $$ for canada at the US expense)
April 6th, 2005 at 3:58 pm
One deterrence to this criminal action is to make sure that children in the know ask the right questions when this education is brought to them.
One question is, “Why should the record companies have a monopoly on music even after the creator dies?”
Another is, “If I buy a plant and reproduce it, why is that legal and it is illegal to do the same with music?”
What is the artists’ percentage of revenues?
Why do the studios make more than the artist?
Is there a way that the artists can be paid directly for their work? May someone make a payment directly to the artist for any music obtained via peer to peer?
Much of the music (if you call it that) has filthy language in it. Why should studios profit from the corruption of the youth?
Don’t I have the right to listen to my CD’s any way I see fit?
If anticopy mechanisms cause my purchased CD not to work with my player, can’t I get my money back? If not, why not?
Why do the studios refuse to sell digital versions of the same quality as the storebought item? If answer is because of fears of p2p, then ask, “But that is exactly what is going on now, so why don’t studios try to compete?”
How can a person get a fair trial if fued by a multibillion dollar business? If the answer is “Don’t download, then you have nothing to worry about,” bring up the case of dead people or non computer owners being sued by the cartel.
Everybody else please chime in, and if you are a parent, you might want to educate your kids on this matter. If 2 or 3 kids would speak out, they might get into a bit of trouble for excercising their right to free speech, but this will become another area where the cartel will fear to tread.
April 6th, 2005 at 4:14 pm
When people quit voting for “The lessor of two evils” and start voting for candidates from minor political parties, we might have a chance to put honest people back into government. Even if the minor party candidate has no chance of winning, exercising your voice in this matter will give the minor political party strength in the future. I guarantee that if 2 major political parties duke it out, and minor parties get 20% of the total vote, the major candidates will take notice.
In the P.S.A. The political cartel are called Democrats and Republicans. They preach different platforms, but will end up doing the same thing once in office. The act of doing something over and over (voting for the lessor of two evils) with same results while expecting a change in these results is an ultimate form of insanity. STOP DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER, then and only then can people get different results (once enough people do differently).
April 6th, 2005 at 5:38 pm
This is one of the reasons we home school our daughter.
Do you want your kid to be ‘educated’ by the entertainent industry, of which Canadian star Joni Mitchell once said, “I’m ashamed to be a part of the music business. You know, I just think it’s a cesspool.”
Cheers!
April 6th, 2005 at 7:06 pm
I agree with you wholeheartily about homeschooling. I wish everyone could do it. Homeschooling involves a drastic lifestyle change which most people are unable or unwilling to make. Unfortunately, it takes at least two incomes to run a houshold these days. Working for the cartels is a slavish business. One day, we will mostly work for ourselves again. But for that to happen, the cartels must be brough down so that the capitalist system can once again thrive.
April 6th, 2005 at 9:03 pm
“i find it more interesting how idiotic or down right corrupt our legislators are to buy their bull.”
No, no, the corrupt legislators don’t “buy their bull”. THEY (the companys) buy the legislators.
April 6th, 2005 at 9:15 pm
The main thing for kids to know is, if you see your parents doing somthing you even think might infringe on a copyright, make sure to turn them in! Thoughtcrime is a serious matter. The Ministry of Truth will sort things out and make sure they are properly re-educated. You wouldn’t want a mum or dad who is an evil criminal, now would you.
April 6th, 2005 at 9:51 pm
We have one income. p2pnet. And believe me, we’ve really had to cut back to survive on it. But it can be done.
More important, what we’ve lost in income is more than made up by what we’ve gained in quality of life : )
Cheers!
April 7th, 2005 at 5:02 am
all fine and good on ideals, but until a majority wakes up and actually acts upon this philosophy nothing changes.
It’s a canundrum. How does one convince people to vote for a candidate which represents their ideals when there is always a desperate need to oust party-X from office before it does more damage.
It’s an adaptation of what the fascist conspiracy punters point out.. it’s hard to foster a desire for progress or even remain an informed voter when “the man” keeps you too busy just making a living.
Weather it’s sheerly by accident or “engineered by the super secret cabal” it all ads up in the end to the same situation. Frankly it doesn’t matter to me what the cause is.. the question at hand is how to get out of the cycle.
April 7th, 2005 at 6:26 am
id give her one right across her stupid liberal face.
April 7th, 2005 at 1:42 pm
Yup Jon, homeschooled kids are generally smarter and better educated than their counterparts attending the brainwashing centers call public schools. I know several kids from homeschool families. One eight year old could school many adults about the Constitution of these united states.
People can rail on about homeschooled kids not being socialized properly. IMHO this socialization comes in the form of peer pressure to do drugs, lust for cartel merchandise, foul language, and other not so desirable habits. Also, publically schooled children are more likely to leave any church that they currently belong to when they grow up. Homeschooling allows a much greater potention to develop kids into strong, moral, and better educated adults.
April 7th, 2005 at 5:12 pm
Liberals are crooks, I really doubt she can do anything with as corrupt as they are.
June 17th, 2005 at 7:18 pm
i completely agree on this topic. at the moment i myself have to deal first handedly with public school life. thankfully as a child i was quiet and kept to myself, allowing me to observe the world from the “outside” so to speak. as i sit here and read the trash and slandor that the cartels spit out I want to homeschool my future children. the influence of a place such as school on a young mind is frightening, often once the damage is done little can be done to set it rite, and thats just not a chance im willing to take, especialy on my child. i believe fully in letting the child choose whats best for him/her, but that freedom is useless without proper education, the word being Education and not Media Brainwashing.
it pust a small smile on my face every day when i read these posts and see that there is hope for the future, however small.
July 3rd, 2005 at 3:52 pm
You are litltle close right, beacause, de sovien union was only one
step to de SUPRACAPITALSM, = GLOBAL SLAVE, you can find more
in http://www.abbc2.com/islam/english/english.htm,
we are going to the TOTAL SLAVE SYSTEM, under financial capitalism, if you search little more, you can see who is the owner
of that system.
July 3rd, 2005 at 3:59 pm
tooooo late
WE GOT THIS, WHEN ” united states ” win te Worl Ward II
July 3rd, 2005 at 4:05 pm
THAT IITS YOU COULD WRITE
July 3rd, 2005 at 4:09 pm
I think de same, you can see more about in
http://www.abbc2.com/islam/english/english.htm
July 3rd, 2005 at 4:21 pm
We must to remember right after french revolution, one masonic
leader, (Maxime Robespierre?) told: ” NOW, WE CAN SEE
THE TYRANIE OF THE DEMOCRACY AGAINST DICTATORSHIP OF THE
MONARCHY
Voting, it is only to change off robbers, if sombebody it is honest,
dont cant to rest, he will resign, ( Yves Seguin, the only ones I KNOW) or if decides to fight against corruption, sure, will be out or
killed.