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p2pnet.net News:- The Big Four Organized Music cartel's various 'trade' outfits such as the RIAA, IFPI, BPI, and so on, have faked so much outrage around p2p file sharing and downloading that, in the shape of Russian site AllofMP3.com, it's being used against Russia in its bid to join the World Trade Organization. Warner Music, EMI, Sony BMG and Vivendi Universal claim music 'piracy,' as they call it, is having an absolutely calamitous impact on US earnings, putting industry employees out of work and wreaking havoc with record label bottom lines. That being so, it surely follows it'll be right at the top of any list indexing illegal activities. "Hey Jon," says an email from my m8 Echo Resistance. (He was the guy who told me about the Havoc numbers which led to our story on tainted piracy stats.) "I really think that the tide is starting to turn against the RIAA. With the tainted stats, then the questions of the figures from the Australians, then the lady in court calling bullshit on the $750 ...." In
Tainted cartel 'pirate' stats we wrote, "So successful are their
continuing dis- and misinformation propaganda campaigns that they've
been able to use them to dragoon entire governments and police forces
into acting as industry enforcers. "However,
the cartels are also frequently accused of fabricating statistics upon
which they base their claims and according to the Havocscope global
index of illicit markets, far from being at the top of the pile, movie
and music piracy are way, way down the list, ranking 16th and 20th,
respectively." So with cartel contentions that copyright infringement is having a desperately negative impact on national economies in mind, since the last Havocscope global index, it's probably climbed higher up the list. Right? Er, not quite. In fact, music piracy is now off the current Top 20 illicit index altogether. "If the RIAA was a college football team, no one would even care about them," says Echo. No kidding ;p Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites          Add your comment
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