Musician Lobby Terms Balanced Copyright "Disgusting"

An anonymous reader writes "While most of the attention at Thursday's Canadian copyright town hall was on the recording industry's strategy to pack the room and exclude alternate voices, the most controversial activity took place outside the hall. It has now been revealed that security guards threatened students and a Member of Parliament for distributing leaflets, and the American Federation of Musicians termed the MP's leaflet, which called for balanced copyright, 'disgusting' and demanded a retraction and apology. At this point, such an admission seems unlikely."

How can the orginal article be slashdotted?

[west]

The article's about *Canada*. Who the heck is reading it?

Re:"Shamelessly buy votes?"

[Sique]

So you think this might backfire? ;)

Re:Frankly

[RIAA Associate]

Hello Sir,

Would you please be so kind to supply us with the address of the quoted establishment, as well as any detail you can remember about that particular performer? We ostensibly thank you for your help and to show it we decided to make you an exclusive offer: seeing as you seem to enjoy Pink Floyd, we will send you the limited edition box set "Oh, By the Way" entirely for free. Just send us your name and address and we will dispatch it as soon as possible.

Thank you very much for you collaboration, once more.

Kind Regards,
RIAA Associate representative

Re:Frankly

[lavacano201014]

to quote Pink Floyd: "And if I had my own way, I'd have all of you SHOT!".

There's some copyright infringement right there.

Re:Frankly

[parodyca]

to quote Pink Floyd: "And if I had my own way, I'd have all of you SHOT!".

There's some copyright infringement right there.

fair use/dealings

Don't Worry

[No Lucifer]

The RIAA hypocrites represent the worst in human greed and, to quote Pink Floyd: "And if I had my own way, I'd have all of you SHOT!".

The RIAA is just a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes...

We need more reasonable copyright laws

[symbolset]

I'm thinking, 10-20yrs of incarceration for flagrant violations for ripping a digital copy of a CD or DVD for personal use, 25-40 for sharing it, and financial damages in the millions of dollars per shared song or book. That should adequately provide a disincentive for the casual intellectual property thief. Obviously forfeiture of your entire estate and a lifetime of collections to prevent future economic misdeeds is the only adequate preventive measure.

For thieves of software and commercial theft, adding chemical castration should nip the problem in the bud.

And of course to claw back the rampant theft of content the content cooperatives like BSA, RIAA and MPAA should get a surcharge of 50% on all R/W media including hard drives - 75% for SD media that's more frequently infringing, and on all streaming communications like Internet, Cable TV, cellular phones and POTS. Clearly the passing of digital or analog data across international borders is likewise a circumvention of just management of artist's rights - a "jurisdiction hole" and must be prevented totally. An overriding "Supercopyright Body" should be instituted consisting of all of these constituencies.

To ensure fair distribution of content licensing all equipment that contains an amplifier, recorder or speaker should enjoy the surcharge as well. After all if you play music in your car with the windows down that's a public performance. Naturally for all of this equipment adequate licensing protective measures of DRM should be mandatory as well.

I'm sure we can count on the righteous defenders of artists' rights to distribute the take equitably after accounting overhead and costs.

Re:haha

[Rob the Bold]

And while I am posting this message, here are some more stats to consider: UK HEALTHCARE WAITING TIMES 8 months - cataract surgery, 11 months- hip replacement, 12 months- knee replacement, 5 months - slipped disc, 5 months - hernia repair

Whereas here in the US, we've solved that problem by not tracking those statistics.

Re:haha

[Hognoxious]

MEP Daniel Hannan said in early August, "The worst thing to be is elderly under the UK Health System..... you will be denied care and left starving in wards."

Apparently it's much worse to be disabled. They have execution camps over there. Brilliant scientist, doesn't matter - you still get sent to the gas chamber.

And before any of the lily-livered liberals ask for a source (don't any of you know how to use google?) it was on Fox News.

Re:Frankly

[multisync]

I tipped the guy the equivalent of about $20.

What did you give him? A lid?