Music industry lobbyist calls for death penalty for piracy

[The Straight Story]

Music industry lobbyist calls for death penalty for piracy

Cory Doctorow at 1:55 AM Monday, Jun 14, 2010

Here's Fran Nevrkla, Chairman and CEO of Phonographic Performance Ltd, a UK music industry association, addressing the group's AGM. Some choice morsels:

Thank you, David, and thank you for putting some of those pirates behind bars. I know that regrettably capital punishment was abolished in this country some 50 years ago, sad it is, but a few years in jail is probably pretty OK...

To the industry I would say, we would be well advised to delete two or three words from our vocabulary entirely and they are 'promotion' and 'promotional value'. There is no such thing in the 21st Century. There is usage, there are benefits, hopefully often, if not always to both sides but there is no favour in it and no indulgence and no promotion.

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/14/music-industry-lobby.html

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. He'll use the Standard Ann Coulter Excuse

"I'm only joking". :eyes:

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. I'd love for this corporate whore to come tell me that to my face.

If he tried to look at my hard drive, we'll see who got the "death penalty". Threaten me in my home, it's called self defense.

Not that I have any commercially available recordings that I didn't pay for. I just don't like fascists.

[depakid]

3. err... that's British humor

:eyes:

[HooptieWagon]

4. The music industry itself are the pirates.

ASCAP, BMI, and others. They have a corrupt system of determining royalty payments that steals royalties rightfully belonging to small artists and give it to the stars. Not to mention their Mafia-like extortion racket targeting small bars, restaurants, and coffee houses.

[pipi_k]

5. The music industry ought to be hung, drawn, and quartered...

for all they years they put one good song on a CD along with 12 other shitty songs, then making people buy the whole stinking CD if they wanted the one song.

Being able to buy one MP3 from an album has changed all that, though, thank goodness.

[Nye Bevan]

6. Memo to music industry

and TV industry and movie industry.

A very simple message: *****Sell your stuff online through a legitimate source (preferably itunes or Amazon)*****

If I want a song, or a TV show, or a movie, I will check first on itunes, and if it is for sale there, I will *buy* it!!!!!

If it is *not* for sale there (or anywhere else legally that I can easily find) *or* if the one song I want is only available on itunes as part of an album, I will *not* go to the record store and pay $20 for the CD or DVD! I will not feel the *slightest* bit of guilt about obtaining what I want through alternative methods (cough cough torrents cough) for *free*. Why should I feel guilty? I wanted to buy it on itunes and pay money for it but you refused to sell it!