“The real pirates have always been the labels, screwing over the artists for decades.
Google 'hollywood accounting', or the stories from well known artists like Courtney Cox, the way the labels screwed artists over when they introduced the CD, screwing artists over by unjust loyalties for digital downloads.
For more examples, the RIAA has sued over 18,000 people on average of $5,000 (some have been sued multiple times), but no artist has seen a sliver of these millions.
The recording industry collects a fee for all blank media (CDs, DVDs etc) in Canada as these MIGHT be used for piracy, at just a few cents per CD... but over millions of CDs and years of these fees have accumulated to tens of millions of dollars (or more...) but not ONE artist has seen a dime of this money.
Who's the real pirate now? the 16 year old pimply geek who downloads a song off the internet or the labels screwing their artists for decades?”
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Spot on
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Oh the Wolverine mysteries
So someone along the line has leaked online a not-finished pre-production copy of Origins:Wolverine:X-men here we go.
If people don't realise it's not the finished version and say its pants, then I'd hope the producers wouldn't want them as fans, paying or otherwise. If on the other hand after seeing the film (without the special effects), people rush out to see it, tell all their friends to see it and buy the (rip-off priced) optical media, then what will the studios say about the effect of piracy?
If it is nothing but pants and only wings it by the yet to be added special effects, then only the cgi fanboys/gals will be the beneficiaries anyway.
"Of course, true movie fans would never sacrifice the true joy of a collective, shared experience at a theater for a degraded, half-baked copy viewed on tiny computer screens..."
A theatre experience? I'd rather have my eyes gouged out and body trampled by rampaging bulls. Shudder.
Friday, 18 April 2008
IFPI's Swedish nightmare
The following piece is from the The Local, Sweden's news in english - as my Swedish's a bit rusty.
'Judicial scandal' in Pirate Bay case
A Swedish police officer involved in the investigation of file sharing site The Pirate Bay has been given a job with one of the plaintiffs in the case, film company Warner Brothers.
The officer began working for Warner Brothers job several months after the preliminary investigation was completed. The same police officer is scheduled to appear as a witness in the forthcoming Pirate Bay trial, newspaper Sydsvenskan reports.
Defence lawyer Peter Althin said he would be looking into the matter.
"The question is how long this was under consideration. If it was under consideration at the time of the investigation then it is a scandal," he told Sydsvenskan.
Althin is representing Peter Sunde, one of four men charged charged with being an accessory to breaking copyright law.
"This is a judicial scandal. Talk about a conflict of interests," Sunde told the newspaper.
If the police officer is found to have entered into discussions with Warner Brothers before the end of the investigation, which took a year and a half to complete, it is possible that the prosecution will have to scrap its findings and start again, said Althin.
Perhaps the IFPI should have stuck to taking consumers (the end users of its conglomerate parts products) to court instead.
