The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has launched a campaign to raise money from its members to hire lobbyists to protect them against the dangers of "Copyleft."
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lozz
11 years 44 weeks 23 hours 11 min ago
ASCAP = RIAA
There's no difference between ASCAP and the RIAA in either their tactics or their objectives.
schestowitz
11 years 44 weeks 6 hours 17 min ago
MAFIAA
Those front groups of BMG/Sony/Warner/Universal can conveniently be lumped together and called MAFIAA. It's both comical and informative, IMHO.
lozz
11 years 43 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago
MAFIA-Monopolies
Yeah, the original Mafia were exactly the same. The corporate "families" would attempt to establish criminal monopolies over drugs, rackets, prostitution, gambling, protection, etc., then they'd send out their hitmen with tommy guns to enforce their criminal "law".
This current crop of corporate gangsters are no more "legitimate businessmen" than Al Capone ever was.