Author Topic: Petition The Enemy (Read 1141 times)

GhostShip · « **on:** June 27, 2006, 01:54:08 pm »

This is another scheme folks to highlight the current immoral system of extorting money from folks who cannot afford to defend themselves in court.

http://p2pnet.net/story/9153

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The managers of Avril Lavigne, The Streets and Elbow are amongst those who've signed an online petition organized by Flowerburger Records naming the British music industry for suing fans who use p2p networks.

For British music industry read EMI (UK), Warner Music (US), Vivendi Universal (France) and Sony BMG (Japan, Germany), the Big Four Organized Music labels who jointly own the BPI, the so-called British Phonographic Industry, a clone of the RIAA, CRIA, ARIA and all the other 'trade' associations being used by the Big Four in their warped and bitter efforts to sue their own customers into buying product.

The petition, "invites people to show their distaste for the ongoing policy of the British record industry's trade association, the BPI, of threatening fans with legal action unless they pay sizeable fines

Join the protest folks and make your online voice heard.

http://www.flowerburger.com/petition.php

Thank you all

SamSeeSam · « **Reply #1 on:** June 27, 2006, 04:38:21 pm »

Does your country figure in the condidtions?

GhostShip · « **Reply #2 on:** June 27, 2006, 04:55:46 pm »

I think whatever your location if your against the futile and morally wrong extortion threats handed out by the music industry its time to make yourself heard on the issue.

KM · « **Reply #3 on:** June 27, 2006, 07:39:24 pm »

didn't the BPI announce they weren't going to make any more of those stupid meaningless threats like their amercian counterparts?

GhostShip · « **Reply #4 on:** June 28, 2006, 05:12:54 am »

No KM they did not, what they did say was that they would not take legal action against folks ripping their music to other devices, which under current law is illegal, ludicrous but true.