Christain Music Trade Association Intentionally Misleading Congress

Posted by ctrlc in News, Editorials (Monday March 20, 2006 at 11:03 pm)

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).

In the article I recently posted, 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.

Source and full story: The Pirate Times