More Lies, more fall out, entertainment industries fault

What do you do when a company misleads government, people, consumers, rights activists, and a whole host of other people with faulty statistics? If this was a normal company, the PR nightmare would be disastrous, in reality the MPAA’s intentional misleading information is seen as “business as usual” and no big surprise.

That is the worrying part, it is seen as not remarkable. Inside Higher Ed, ReadWriteWeb, techdirt, and torrentfreak all report on the subject, but there is no sense of indignation. There is a sense of wrong doing on the part of the IFPI, MPAA and RIAA.

The amazing part is that these representatives of copyright holders do not seem to see an ethical or moral issue here. The torrentspy insider hack is a symptom of a greater ethical and moral issue within the modern recording industry.

Calls aside for ISP’s to monitor users for what they are doing on the internet when it comes to P2P, that the ISP’s somehow need to be the “net nanny that will do the job for us’. Under Safe Haven provisions of the DMCA, if the networks and ISP’s go that route, if they monitor, they lose the ability to call on safe haven later (I am not a lawyer by the way). We keep on getting mixed messages globally, this is not a good thing.

The locking down of the network is dangerous territory for everyone, ISP’s, users, government, and the corporations themselves.

Should we really believe in these companies anymore, can the MPAA, RIAA, IFPI redeem themselves in the eyes of people? The war against the individual has stepped up the anger that people have against the music industry. In an era of declining sales, can the music industry really continue to piss off the people that buy their products? If this was Target, Sears, Wal-Mart or anyone else how long would they remain in business?