Supply And The Content Cartel Demands

[hawk7771us]

1:Content Cartel had a tax added to blank Cd's and hardware
2:They shut down napster
3: Went after the owners of P2P networks in court
4:Now they are after p2p individuals in the courts
5:They are suing the people who keep them in business
6:Getting a lot of people afraid of p2p with law suites from $750.00 to $150,000.00 dollars. With Huge lawyers fees if they do not settle with them.
7:Trying to get our elected officials to pass new laws that are tougher than the DMCA is now
8: Using DMCA as a end around fair use by copy protecting the movies and music Cd's, DVDs yes you may still copy them but it's still against the law of DMCA
9: Content Cartel (RIAA/MPAA)
When the Content Cartel first started out back in the early nineteen hundred's. Nobody and I mean nobody but this industry could make or show movies.The movie industry did what ever they could, to put every independent out of business. They had thugs destroying the films and the equipment of their competition. They had the police shut them down. Running them out of town or putting them in jail. They went to congress and the senate, with their lobbying groups and hammered out the new copyright laws. Now they are putting copy protected movies out and using the DMCA. The writing on the disk is so small you can't read it without magnification.Who carries a magnifying glass with them to the store. I can understand that the industry doesn't want anyone to copy their movies. With all the pirates out there.Selling the movies on street corners, back rooms or to have a company sell it in their store. You know the black market.Yes that must be stopped at all costs.
There is also what is known as Audio Home Recording Act The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 Copyright Act of 1976, As Amended Chapter 10. Digital Audio Recording Devices. Which is fair use. To make a backup copy of the movie.Also how am I going to use my computer as a home theater.When it will not let me watch it with WIN DVD.You are breaking the law. But what I do not understand is after I put that DVD in my computer the other DVDs which I knew would work did not work after that. Since I can not do reverse engineering because of the DMCA. Not that I could do it myself anyway. I had to reformat my computer in order to watch the other movies that are not copy protected.Now it could be my computer but I think not or it could be window media player nine with that DRM. I do not know what cause it .But if it is your copy protection then it is a virus and should be outlawed.
The music industry is unscrupulous for they have no morals. From day one they took control of the sheet music,the player piano, radio, and then the artists. Because they owned the recording studios. Content cartel had them just about sign their lives away. Sure lots of the artists made good money back then. But most of them did not. The artists never made their money off of records.One example Bunny Berigan sometimes made a thousand a week in NYC in 1938.Working his butt off,going from one gig to another gig. But other times he had to sell his music to live on. One of which, was his number one song. For one hundred dollars to RCA. Artists went from town to town, just like it is today. It has not changed since then. Nor will it change now. The music industry will die fighting for this concept and business model. Antitrust $143 million settlement by the DOJ. But still made Millions of dollars beyond the fine. If you do the math it comes out to about $1.35 per Cd. Yet they admitted no wrong doings. Doing something wrong and they still make money from it. It is OK for Content Cartel to do it but no one else can. Even if it noncommercial p2p. Yet with their Amnesty program you have to admitted your wrong doings. With detail information even a picture id. One sided wouldn't you say of this Monopolistic Content Cartel.
What happen to this part of the copyright law? Sub chapter D. Prohibition on certain infringement action, remedies, and arbitration Section 1008. Prohibition on certain infringement actions No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings. Is this not what the Dart fund was for, that the music and movie industries Agreed to. So they would be compensated for music and movies copied, on blank Cd's and DVDs. "Still, one is left with the fact that the law NEVER uses the word tax. It specifically uses the word "royalty", which has a well understood meaning in the context of copyright law. A royalty is compensation paid to a copyright holder, in exchange for permission to exercise what would otherwise be an exclusive right of the copyright holder. There is no reason to believe that the AHRA royalties are anything other then what they appear to be -- statutory royalties paid by individuals to copyright holders." http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/archive/dvd-discuss/msg12685.html

This part of the copyright law sounds like a computer and the INTERNET to me. Since they already have been paid by the tax. From the hardware and blank Cd's and i think blank DVDs. The downloading of mp3 and copied on to Cd's the copyright is already paid for though this tax. As long as it noncommercial use by the consumer. P2P is noncommercial use, not one person is paid a penny for mp3. It is the same as tapping a song off of the radio. The only difference is there is more to listen to, and it is in a digital medium. For the Content Cartel has no control over it as they do over the radio. But they were paid for this through this tax. It is not my fault that The Content Cartel only gets paid X amount for which they agreed to. The Content Cartel says, Blank Cd's, DVDs have sold more than non blank Cd's. Well you get the tax for it.The more we buy,the more royalty you get for copyright. No matter if it's used for different data other than music they still get the royalty. I know most of us backup just about everything we can. If you don't then it bye, bye data.

[hawk7771us]

As for the declined Cd sales one theory is to have songs that are good I mean Bad. The songs are all the same, the groups are the same, and they all sound the same. I wonder why that came about. Or is it that, there isn't any songs left to be written. Nah it the Content Cartel that did it to themselves. With the help of todays economy. Business is down everywhere, people are out of work.It is not just P2P that the Content Cartel would have you believe. You also have the real copyright infringements that's the real problem. The ones selling the Cd's and DVDs.Take their accounting and you can show the numbers anyway you like. It's just like a poll do it one way and you get this. do it another way and it will come up different. Well we also have a different price structure in the MPAA and the RIAA. If a movie cost eighty million or mostly more to make. Costing twenty dollars when it first comes out, sometimes it's fifteen dollars on DVD which cost more than a regular Cd. Then after maybe a couple of months it goes down in price on most movies. Why does a music Cd cost the same twenty dollars and it doesn't cost eighty million or more to make.Yes you have every right to market and sell your product the way you want. But the consumers are just not buying it.
As for the net act: i hope the Content Cartel gets fined for each infraction. (exceeding the authorized access) The Act makes it unlawful for any person to access a protected computer "without authorization." That same section also forbids a person who has a legitimate and authorized right of access from "exceeding the authorized access." If such an access "without authorization" or "in excess of authorization" results in the person's obtaining information from the protected computer, and the conduct involves interstate or foreign communication, then a violation of the Act is established. I believe one hundred percent. That the people you copied from, will say that is what you did with those bots of yours. Just because I leave my door wide open. Doesn't mean you can come in.Where is the DOJ when you need them.
Why do you think the Content Cartel was there. When the DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT OF 1998 was first formed. You can bet your bottom dollar the mpaa/riaa and of course big corporations, they were in the thick of it. Who else would put in 1/10 of a song but only 30 seconds of the song as fair use. Where were the peoples voice in this act? It sure wasn't voiced very well. If you look at the history of this industry,and then compare it with the mafia. You will find that it is the same marketing model. The only difference is that they used the law to do it. By going to congress and the senate with all of their lobbyist with their donations. To help with whatever pet causes that our elected officials were doing at the time. I am not saying what they did was against the law. But how can we have corporations giving money, to our elected officials who introduce bills and laws of the land. It just does not make sense to me. To the corporations it's business as usual. Supply And They Demand.
Where were: We The People Of The United States Of America, Representatives in this act.Why was it so one sided in favor of big corporations? Well one reason could be that the United State Of America just had to join the WIPO. I do not know why we had to join. Unless it was an end around the constitution of the good old U.S.A. Your know all those foreign corporations that own Music and Hollywood Industries.They just had to get us to join this organization. Because our laws did not suit them.

Now the Content cartel wants to own the Internet. They have to shut down P2P now. It is all about controlling the market. If they do not control the market who would need them. Yes my friend it's supply and demand. they supply and always demand. It has nothing to do with Music or the Movies. The law suits are really just fronts. Look at the settlements $2000 to $3500, maybe they will up the ante more In the next round. It's costing them more for their lawyers. It makes them favorable in the eyes of our elected officials. Instead of suing for $750.00 to $150,000.00 a song. Which was really enacted for the selling of Cd's and DVDs. You know the pirates of the seas. The guys on the street corners, The ones who make hundreds of thousands of Cd's DVDs to sell. The Big Bad Black Market. Yes they made us the bad guys,with the black hats. It's the bait and switch game. You're looking here but what they really want, is way over there. They are not stupid. They been doing this for almost a hundred years now.

The Content Cartels could care less who owns the p2p's. Yes they will talk to them, egg them on and on and on. Yet nothing will come from this. These racketeers are not going to deal with them. Why should they? It's all about controlling the market. Supply and Always Demand. They undertook this concept of marketing from the very beginning. Now the Content Cartel has given out piece meals of songs to a few companies. Making them look favorable in the eyes of our elected officials.While charging the same as a CD would be in a store. Sometime even more than it would cost in a store. Then they also added restrictions to it. This is a product that they sell to the consumers. This is the only product with more laws to it than a car has. Would you let the auto industry tell you how you can fix your car. Or where you can buy the parts for it. If your computer goes down, you may only buy it from the dealership. This is only music for entertainment, and there are more laws to this than there should be. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see it.

While I believe that Content Cartel will make their own mp3 and servers. So they are the only ones on the net that you can download from. And still charge the same. After lets say fifty downloads they break even. Most likely less, but who knows. The rest is pure profit and ten to one it will be 128 kbs and not lossless or wave or anything in between. They control the radio, that why you will only find the same artists being played over and over. With the same old songs. It will be the same with the Internet. They want to be the only game in town. Supply and They Demand. Yes I believe that they should make a profit from music. The Artist who sings or acts or both should be paid for it. They perform a great a service to the world, they make us laugh, cry, be sad, then happy. They take us to a new worlds of thoughts, for the time we have to see and listen to them.They use to make us think about what going on in the world. So the artist should be paid.

The Content Cartel is working very hard trying to pass tougher laws.They are spending millions of dollars to achieve this goal. There is more at steak than music and movies. Our Constitutional rights as a free nation are slowly being eaten away by these corporations. A lot of them foreign owned. Why are we letting this happen? It's not what our families fought for and died for. Our forefathers set up checks and balances in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Amendment 1: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. It is We THE People. Not We the Corporations.

The people of this great nation will have to rise up, and let their voices be heard. Call everyone you know, have them call, write, email their Congressman/woman, Senators. Let them know how you feel. Bug the hell out of them never let them rest. Hammer it in that you will vote them out. The almighty vote is our power. Also boycott all corporations that deal with riaa/mpaa and subs. If a corporation has music and also sells TV's etc. Boycott this also. It the same company. check out boycott-riaa.com and other sites though google. See what is being said, Make up your own mind, be self informed. I'm just an old hippie from N.Y.C. What do I know? I know nothing. I see nothing. I hear nothing. Little by little it will be gone.You'll wake up one morning and say well I did nothing. And now there is nothing. Let's start this great adventure united. It's a long up hill battle. The content Cartel has it hands all over the place.