Update: CRTC “agrees” with ADISQ (9)
“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!!!
This is ridiculous, the music industry drives me mad. Instead of trying to engage with the customers and finding new ways of making money (like live shows? oh wait no that would mean that singers would actually have to sing for a living), they prefer to use censorship (and to sue… they seem to love to sue people!).
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!
Hum, I guess I’ll be moving within the next three years then…
Next step: all web sites accessible from Quebec, worldwide, must be in French by default, right?
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It is sad to have Government bodies be so out of touch with the very world in which they’re supposed to be our watchful representatives.
Lord help us if the CRTC gets involved in regulating the Web. They can’t even regulate TV properly.
ADISQ is just another useless dinosaur unable to adapt to the present cilmate.
Those people probably don’t even have computers. We have to forgive them as they simply don’t get it. When they’ll retire from their job (soon I hope) younger people will join and take down what they’re doing now. In the mean time, we can sit back and enjoy the show.
This will be great material when we’ll tell stories to our grand-children about how some people tried to “regulate” what’s unregulatable.
ok everyone we will do a BOF at barcampmontreal3. everyone will be invited to find a solution for artists, musicians and video makers in Québec.
bon probablement en francais et en anglais, peut-être en relation avec Galacticast
S’ils réussissent à mettre ça en place, c’est clair que je quitte le Canada dans les semaines qui vont suivre.
Des limites à endurer ces maudites folies là.
To understand the music industry it is best to break it up into its component parts and analyze separately, including the battles between the parts. The 3 major components are composers, performers and “makers” (record labels).
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.
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