Music and movie industries join forces to fight pirates

26 April 2006

A symbolic smashing of pirated movie and music CDs in Auckland today heralded a new era in the fight against copyright thieves.

The music and movie industries said pirated copies of movies and music were costing money and jobs and they were joining forces to convince people downloading or buying pirated music or movies was theft which could result in prosecution.

The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ) and the New Zealand Federation Against Copyright Theft, (NZFACT) symbolically smashed pirated copies of movies and music today before they signed an agreement to work together to gather intelligence on copyright pirates and bring them to court.

Mark McCall from RIANZ, said copyright thieves could be jailed for up to five years and be fined up to $150,000.

He said it was difficult to say how much it was costing the industries.

"We will be looking at trying to educate the public about copyright and why it is stealing people's creative work and why it is so important for businesses. There are lots of employees out there who are hurt when the money goes to the criminals."

Mr McCall said many people were not worried they were breaching copyright when they copied movies or music.

He said people needed to realise the full impact of breaching copyright laws by pirating music and movies. That included theatres and small production houses going out of business.

Many people knew it was illegal but believed it was not doing anyone any harm, he said.

"It is a serious issue," he said.

If the big movie and music industry only went after the commercial bootleggers, I wouldn't mind (in fact, I'd support those actions.)

However, they are (of course) calling non-commercial p2p users and folks who make back-up copies of legally purchased CD's "pirates".

No matter how much the content cartels lie and mislead the public, downloading and copying is NOT theft.

"We will be looking at trying to educate the public about copyright and why it is stealing people's creative work and why it is so important for businesses. There are lots of employees out there who are hurt when the money goes to the criminals."

The the people who are stealing peoples work by selling physical copies of their work and already know full well that its illegal. There's a SHIT TON of money to be made in fenced goods, just like illegal drugs, duh. So these so called morality speeches won't do a damn thing for the people selling copies of copywronged stuff for profit.

How many drug dealers, or more specifically, fat cat drug lords, like in Columbia for example, have been beaten by the all those people on talk shows that have had children die, families get ruined because of drugs, and commercials showing your brains frying like eggs, these people could give 1 shit, much less 2.

On the flip side, the P2Pers who are not criminals, ARE THERE BECAUSE 1) THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING ISN'T WRONG, AND SO MUCH SO THAT EVEN IF THERE WAS A LAW AGAINST WHAT THEY WERE DOING, THEY WOULD FEEL THE "LAW" WAS UNJUST, AND FEEL NO OBLIGATION TO OBEY THE "LAW". When you have Unjust, corrupt laws, THEY GET DISOBEYED AS PART OF HUMAN NATURE, look at alcohol prohibition of the 30's.

We need to counter-educate others against this trend. Who are these people to think they can subvert our public schools and forcibly indoctrinate your children with propaganda?

By the way, what is propaganda, what are the rules for it to work? Heh RIAA, eat this bitches:

1. Propagandist must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.

2. It must issue all the propaganda directives.

b. It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale.

c. It must oversee other agencies' activities which have propaganda consequences

3. The propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.

4. Propaganda must affect the enemy's policy and action.

a. By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence

b. By openly disseminating propaganda whose content or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions

c. By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself

d. By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity

5. Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign

6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.

7. Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.

8. The purpose, content and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.

9. Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.

10. Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy's prestige or lends support to the propagandist's own objective.

11. Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.

12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.

13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.

a. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.

b. A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment

c. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness

14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.

a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses

b. They must be capable of being easily learned

c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations

d. They must be boomerang-proof

15. Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.

16. Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.

a. Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat

b. Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and which cannot be reduced by people themselves

17. Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.

a. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated

b. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective

18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

19. Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.

Also P2P'ers are there because THEY HATE DRM, AND WHEN YOU ***PAY*** FOR COPYWRONGED MUSIC OR MOVIES, YOU GET DRM THAT YOU DON'T WANT, AND NOT ALL PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO DEFEAT THAT DRM TO USE THAT PRODUCT HOW THEY WISH, SINCE THEY BOUGHT IT WITH THEIR OWN MONEY, THEY OWN IT, JUST LIKE YOU OWN A PAIR OF PANTS WHEN YOU BUY THEM.


Like someone once said:

"With DRM, you can find a NON-DRM copy on the Internet, and get it much faster than if you went out and bought the product and tried to defeat the DRM yourself.

So that being said, a huge reason that people are on the Internet obtaining files, is because they are getting what they want, stuff that allows them to do what they want with the files, THEY ARE THERE BECAUSE THERE WAS NO CHOICE FOR THEM, IF THEY COULDN'T GET WHAT THEY WANTED (A DRM FREE COPY) THEY ***WOULD NEVER HAVE BOUGHT IT IN THE 1ST PLACE**** WAKE THE FUCK UP SENATORS, FEDS, ET.AL.

When you don't allow people the option to get EXACTLY what they want, they will get it some other way, EVEN TO THE POINT OF GOING WITHOUT.

The MAFIAA fail to realize that:

Music and Movies are NOT Air

Music and Movies are NOT Sunlight

Music and Movies are NOT Food

Music and Movies are NOT Shelter

Music and Movies are NOT Clothing

Music and Movies are NOT Water

THEY AREN'T NECESSARY IN ANY WAY, AND CAN BE BOYCOTTED WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE, TO THE POINT WHERE YOUR BUSINESS MODEL WILL DIE, go back to business 101 and learn that you don't piss your customers off.

I want to tell the people something:

Everybody buys 1 copy of the product. The purpose to protect the intellectual property is to keep the product from mass copying. But the idea of not letting people making copies for personal use is not acceptable.

You see, I buy CDs from the stores legally. Then I take the CD home, rip it on to the computer, and than use software to boost the quality, and then put it onto iTunes to be ported to the iPod. I do make copies of the ripped music so that I don't have to take the hassle of re-ripping the music incase the music gets lost.

However, do I make copies and give it to my friends? No. If I want to give my favorite music and give it to my friends, I buy another copy and give it to him. And do I make 1,000 copies for resale on the street? Of course not. But if companies like them do not let me make a copy and enhance the music for my own listening pleasure, that's unacceptable.

He said people needed to realise the full impact of breaching copyright laws by pirating music and movies. That included theatres and small production houses going out of business.

He should have said that current copyright laws are a black sludge created by the corporate whores in washington for the foreign owners of the music industry. Should have clarified that current copyright laws make copyright holders parasites, and the com sumer is being screwed goofy.

"Music and movie industries join forces to fight pirates"

Does this mean they won't be releasing the movie or soundtrack to the sequel of "Pirates of the Caribbean"? Good move, IMO.