America's ASCAP and England's BPI - Bending Over For Dreams, Ignoring the Piracy Nightmare

I get the idea that when Nero fiddled while Rome burned, some descendent of ASCAP's president called out, "Nice tune!"

The descendent of BPI's president would say: "Good news, thanks to Nero, violin makers got a lot of good publicity. Let's encourage more people to enjoy music!" Even if they don't pay for it.

Have you ever tried to alert any of the Alphabet Soupy group to illegal Sales? Go ahead. Go to the website of IFPI or BPI or RIAA. Try to get their attention. It can't be done. They won't listen.

Little Criminals who boast about 14 years of "blogging" go right on doing it. Jerks on eBay who say, "The music is public domain or I own the resale rights" can and do put hundreds of mp3 files on a CD and ship it out with NO takedown from the rights organizations.

So, what ARE these organizations doing with their time? What ARE they instructing their employees to do? Oh...TWEEEEEEEEET.

Look! It's a GAY musician! Hooray hooray, he's GAY GAY GAY. Let's show, in case you don't know it from Elton John and his husband, gays can be part of the music industry! Let's not take the same amount of time to file a takedown that would knock off a blog and send a message to other blogger idiots.

Tell me, BILLBOARD, are you sure that all homosexuals appreciate the term QUEER? You know, like all blacks appreciate the term NIGGA?

The only thing more wan than some indie musician with lipstick on, is the way music organizations deal with piracy.

It's a big sigh. It's a press release once a year wishin' and a hopin' that governments strengthen DMCA laws. Guess what. They will NOT, when the big names in entertainment are no longer RCA Victor or Capitol, but GOOGLE and YOUTUBE. GOOGLE leads people to the music-stealing blogs (many owned by their own Blogspot division). They own YOUTUBE, which is acknowledged to be the prime way that people illegally stream and download music.

YOUTUBE will ignore a red flat on an upload that says "I do not own copyright! I just like this song!" or "This is for review purposes, so it is legal!" GOOGLE will not only put a rights owner through insane hoops to file a takedown, but ignore it anyway, and stick the takedown request on a PUBLIC WEBSITE THEY RUN, so that the pirate knows who to harass.

Meanwhile, "across the pond," somebody at BPI is being PAID to re-tweet bird-brained nonsense.

Hey everyone, some jerk sold 1500 cassettes. CD cassettes are back! Let's ignore a blog that posts new albums every day using Zippyshare (which does respond to takedowns IF ASKED) and pretend that selling CASSETTES will help musicians make a living!

I guess if you're with BPI, you can spend all morning playing quiz games. "Hmm, who IS that familiar face?" Take five minutes to shut down a blog that has boasted of 14 years of music theft? Nahhhhhhhh.