Are you following the Google in China story?<\/p>\n
You see the government doesn’t want the truth to out.\u00c2\u00a0 They want to control the version of reality consumed by the public.<\/p>\n
Used to be the game was easy.\u00c2\u00a0 The politicians and the corporations employed spinmeisters who dealt with the gatekeepers, the newspapers, TV, movies and magazines.\u00c2\u00a0 And what you got was not quite an accurate picture of the truth, but a DISTILLED ONE!\u00c2\u00a0 Slanted for public consumption.<\/p>\n
But those days are through in America.\u00c2\u00a0 Look to the "Washington Post" debacle for instruction.\u00c2\u00a0 The paper wrote that Jack Abramoff had given money to Democrats and the Website was INUNDATED with backlash, left wingers stating that this just wasn’t TRUE!<\/p>\n
Mmm…\u00c2\u00a0 Used to be YOU thought things smelled fishy, but you couldn’t rally your troops.\u00c2\u00a0 You couldn’t get an alternative group together to challenge the conventional wisdom.\u00c2\u00a0 Now the conventional wisdom is being challenged every goddamn day.<\/p>\n
The RIAA has a constant disinformation campaign that their suits of individuals has decreased P2P file-trading.\u00c2\u00a0 God, the press bought it for a while.\u00c2\u00a0 But no longer.\u00c2\u00a0 Because of BigChampagne.<\/p>\n
Go to\u00c2\u00a0BigChampagne<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 There you will find the reality to counter all the bullshit arguments by Mitch Bainwol and his troops.\u00c2\u00a0 There you will find statistics on what is being traded, by whom.\u00c2\u00a0 Now without membership, you can’t evaluate all the data.\u00c2\u00a0 But "click here to see more detail" at the bottom of the chart.\u00c2\u00a0 And then, use the drop down menu to change formats.\u00c2\u00a0 Funny how you can get an INSTANT picture of what’s TRULY happening in America.\u00c2\u00a0 What people WANT as opposed to what the labels and the mainstream press SAY they want.<\/p>\n Why don’t you click on "Country".\u00c2\u00a0 There you will find Miranda Lambert possessing the #5 most traded track, "Kerosene".\u00c2\u00a0 But if you go to Miranda’s personal site, or her Sony site, you’ll see only a SNIPPET of the song is being STREAMED!\u00c2\u00a0 Mmm…\u00c2\u00a0 Talk about a disconnect.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s as if the proprietor is monitoring the FRONT DOOR while people are stealing, willy-nilly, out the BACK DOOR!\u00c2\u00a0 Wouldn’t it behoove the owner of the store to CHARGE for the wares disappearing out the rear of his store?\u00c2\u00a0 Especially if there aren’t enough policemen, not enough legal infrastructure, to CAPTURE all those walking away with the goods for free?<\/p>\n Yup, that’s the truth.\u00c2\u00a0 Policing.\u00c2\u00a0 Suing.\u00c2\u00a0 Ain’t stopping the problem.<\/p>\n Just look at what BigChampagne says:<\/p>\n "In America in December, 2005, on average, 6,978,715 people were simultaneously logged onto the p2p networks at any given time, says p2p research firm BigChampagne, which produces statistics centering on the file sharing phenomenon.<\/p>\n In 2004, the number was 5,500,314 and in 2003, 3,239,298, says the firm, which compiled statistics for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Information Technology Outlook report for 2004."<\/p>\n