Canadian Music Industry Calls For Internet Regulation, Website Blocking

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."

Comments

Drowns CRIA in poutine.

[Chas]

So, basically a gun to people's heads while the other hand rifles through their pockets.

Greed. The one thing that's in truly infinite supply.

Good luck with that

[sandbagger]

They get a tax subsidy in Canada, new copyright legislation protecting broken-in-principle DRM and now they want search engines -- which make more money than them -- to be subservient to their industry. Wonderful.

Re:Good luck with that

[Dunbal]

No one is buying blank cassette tapes or CD-ROM/DVD's anymore. Waaaaa we need more money!

Re:Good luck with that

[Jason Levine]

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!

They need to keep teens apart too

[hawguy]

If they are really worried about piracy, they need to keep teens apart -- one of my teenaged relatives has a half dozen or so usb drives laying around with songs he's traded with various friends -- She's got a music library of over 10,000 songs (though oddly, she only seems to listen to 10 of those, over and over again). They trade entire music libraries at school, thousands of songs at a time. So no matter how tightly they lock down the internet, music will continue to be traded.

I'm a lost cause, the mainstream industry isn't likely to get much of my money no matter what they do. I'm well out of my teen years, and about the only albums I buy are for small regional artists, and I usually get them at concerts or direct from the artists. I already own several hundred CD's from the groups I listened to in my teens and 20's, and rarely hear a mainstream group I want to buy a CD from today -- Pandora and Spotify are good enough.

Not a Canadian...

[Voyager529]

...but I thought that the Canadian RIAA had a tax tacked onto blank storage media that was supposed to help pay for the pirated tracks. Did that disappear?

Just make music trading paraphernalia illegal

[denis-The-menace]

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!
It for the good of unborn artists in the future. /S

Re:Those canucks are really pissing me off now

[TWiTfan]

Now you know how U.S. Americans feel when everyone lumps us all together, as if we're all cool with the corporatist pricks who get elected these days.