“Le CRTC pourrait réguler l’Internet” is cyberpresse’s headline today. Michel Arpin, VP of CRTC, said that they didn’t see the need to regulate the Internet in 1999, but it’s different now. He added:
On s’aligne donc pour intervenir, et ce avant trois ans.
This is after the ADISQ, the APFTQ, and the ACTRA made a public appeal last sunday to the Quebec and Canadian government. I am not sure if Michel Arpin said that to calm down these associations, which represent the music and cinema industry, or if the CRTC was really serious about it.
In case you didn’t get it, there is only one way of regulating the Internet and making sure that there is a majority of Canadian content on the Internet; and that is by blocking foreign websites, which is what Saudi Arabia and China is doing. And there is one thing for sure, this will impoverish instead of enriching Québec and Canadian culture.
Instead, I suggest that the José Verner pays a course on digital matters 101 to the ADISQ and everyone involved in this matter. It will show them that, because of its technical nature, there can’t be any artificial barrier on the Internet. The RIAA and the MPAA have been laughed at for years because they too don’t understand the organic nature of the Internet; instead of helping the artists and their members to adapt and cross the digital divide, they invested their efforts into controlling each user.
Wake up, ADISQ, you are disconnected from today’s reality!!!
Comments
Aurelie October 31, 2007
So sad that they are following in the US music industry’s footsteps… They are just as blinded as Zucker blaming Apple for “destroying” the business. Wake up and smell the roses people!
stephdau October 31, 2007
Next step: all web sites accessible from Quebec, worldwide, must be in French by default, right?
watava
Mat October 31, 2007
Allen Mendelsohn October 31, 2007
Samuel October 31, 2007
Denis Canuel November 02, 2007
This will be great material when we’ll tell stories to our grand-children about how some people tried to “regulate” what’s unregulatable.
Heri November 02, 2007
bon probablement en francais et en anglais, peut-être en relation avec Galacticast
Bruno November 04, 2007
Des limites à endurer ces maudites folies là.
Russell McOrmond November 05, 2007
In the past the labels dominated the industry as the capital costs for equipment to record, edit and distribute music was high. Now that this is changed, it allows composers and performers to dominate but the old-economy labels don’t want that. In fact, the labels have sued groups representing composers a number of times in recent years. The labels have the least value-add to the music industry, and yet still extract the largest cut of revenues. “Right-sizing” these increasingly unnecessary middle-men will be a critical aspect of modernizing the music industry.