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
14 years 10 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago
ASCAP = RIAA
There's no difference between ASCAP and the RIAA in either their tactics or their objectives.
schestowitz
14 years 10 weeks 2 days 2 hours 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
14 years 10 weeks 16 hours 31 min 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.