All to often the Music Industry (and the Movie Industry for that matter) promotes lies, distortions and propaganda to the public regarding their alleged loss of income due to the exchange of ‘their’ works via filesharing networks. Most often these deliberate falsifications derive directly from organizations like the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) or the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) who, in many cases, represent the same corporations, that beg for pity from the public and the government. Today, a new less-known organization has done the honor of spreading the industry’s propaganda for them; the Christian Music Trade Association (CMTA).
The CMTA has began lobbying congress with a new bill, that if made a law, would make the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) responsible for enforcing copyright on digital music radio stations, and preventing distribution of those unauthorized radio recordings, over “digital networks”, AKA– P2P filesharing networks. The Bill would obviously force the Federal Government to begin actively involving itself in the prevention of copyright infringement online, which to this point, is uncommon.
The CMTA justifies the need for such a law claiming, “Digital piracy has wreaked economic harm at all levels of the music business, including the gospel music industry”.
Oddly enough, the same exact day that the CMTA announces this, a new study conducted by the Canadian Recording Industry, claims the exact opposite. The findings from this industry-sponsored study tell us that 75% of P2P users buy music after downloading it ‘illegally’ on P2P networks.
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Doesnt suprised me I was raised christian and most of what they preach are lies in my opinion.
Don’t blame Christianity for this. The RIAA is Jewish run do people blame Jews for what they do?
I sometimes wonder Class316. Do people like you know you’re nuts or do you prefer the term “special”
Same here. Christain Music Trade Association is no different than the greedsters in the music and entertainment industries. People are struggling to make a living and the songwriters complain about not getting royalities in the millions. Granted that there is no lionger any money in entertainment unless your a national named act and the only way to become a national named act is to get noticed. Getting noticed costs money and only the big 5 have the ablitity to push product through national marketing channels to effect mass sales. Everyone else is screwed.
As for Christian ethics I do not think christian chirches practice christianity they practice a form of eliteism.