Canadian Music Industry Calls For Internet Regulation, Website Blocking 198
An anonymous reader writes "Canadian law professor Michael Geist reports
that the Canadian arm of the RIAA is calling for new Internet
regulation, including website blocking and search result manipulation. While the Canadian music industry experienced increased digital sales last year (sales declined in the U.S.) and the Ontario government is handing out tens of millions of tax dollars to the industry, the industry now wants the government to step in with website blocking and ordering search companies to change their results to focus on iTunes and other sales sites."
What's wrong with the Canadian music industry? (Score:3, Funny)
One word: Bieber
Just make music trading paraphernalia illegal (Score:5, Funny)
Just make music trading paraphernalia illegal
This is the TRUE solution. CD/DVDs, USB sticks and drives, computers.
All of if has to go. Shutdown the libraries. Burn the contents.
We MUST go back to the 50s where all music came from the good old music labels. They know good music and how to make it.
The church of Profits commands you! /S
It for the good of unborn artists in the future.
Re:What's wrong with the Canadian music industry? (Score:2, Funny)
You’re being unreasonably kind to Celine Dion and Bryan Adams.
Re:Good luck with that (Score:5, Funny)
Don't you see? Any money you don't spend on new music from them is a lost sale. Those lost sales mean you must be pirating music instead because you wouldn't be using the money for food or something nonessential when you could use it to buy more music. Lost sales like that will cause the record executives to starve to death (after they go through their caviar stockpile). How dare you not open your wallets and empty the contents into the recording industry's bank accounts!