A fresh broom at EMI seems to be kicking up quite a dust storm for the anti consumer, media monopoly organisations.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080111-under-pressure-from-emi-riaa-could-disappear.htmlIs the RIAA as we know it about to disappear? As rumors continue to swirl that EMI will pull its funding from music trade groups like the RIAA and IFPI, an IFPI spokesman tells Ars that the group is in the middle of a major internal review of its operations.
That review will include a look at the "structure and operation of the organisation and its relationship with the national groups, with a view to finding greater efficiencies and cutting costs," we're told. That leaves open the possibility that the review could lead to a merger of the IFPI and RIAA, which is the largest (and most expensive) of the "national groups." If that happens, the "RIAA" might disappear even as its work continues.
The comments from the IFPI fit with a new story in Variety which claims that EMI will pull funding from the trade groups by March 31 unless major changes are made
After watching these organisations abuse the law to attack file sharers I,m all for their imminent collapse, greed should not be rewarded and EMI should be looked upon as saving the industry from its own internal despots.
I have from day one made clear to folks here that if you like anything you download you should purchase it where possible, on the other turn of the coin I also make clear also I support the distribution of the publics own private efforts at music, art, educational and religous material and also their software offerings something that the monopolists have tried to stifle over the years by eroding as many private distribution chains as they can, for me and I,m sure most of you this is not just about a few lines in the copyright law, this fight has meaning and it seems EMI forced though they are through "financial dieting" are moving in a direction that does not oppose our rights to share our own works, this is something we should thank them for, so cheers EMI, lets hope attacks against filesharers become something of the past, the alternative is not something I,m sure they can deal with and survive.
