Here in part two we take a closer look at what the Greedy Business ™ is trying to do to earn more money, when their natural earnings are slowly declining and how they are using or misusing the law to punish their customers because of a misunderstanding of how the world today works! Finally we take a look at the methods Greedy Business ™ themselves use – they have long claimed that everyone else is cheating them and misusing rights… How are they, themselves fairing – in the eyes of the law?

There are many ways to earn money. For the Greedy Business ™ the main way is no longer innovation. When you can no longer bring the people what they want to pay for they found an alternative that they found fair. They simply want to take away your rights one by one and then make you pay for them instead. Broadcasters are already trying to get control over media sharing, which is something that is a common right in the digital age, and force you to pay them for this right – again and again. The same thing is happening with the sad music business, with Sony BMG at the forefront of this rights-to-pay-again alternative. Sony BMG now considers it stealing that you copy that music you already own. Naturally these actions brings a question to mind: What do these american ideas do in the other parts of the world, where laws are fair for people? The answer is rather simply… They just force the laws of Hollywood into other countries as well, like it is happening in Canada! Canada is a special case as it has already been shown in Canada where the MPAA/RIAA was caught lying, using faked statestics while Canada at the same time has been proven to be one of the best developing markets in a time, where there is a large decline in sales across the industry. Furthermore it was proven in Canada that P2P actually improves CD sales – a statestic RIAA doesn’t want you to know about and would refuse the validity of to the day they are sacked! Of course the RIAA now have their eyes firmly set on the US, like the gaze of Sauron, and are now forcing the universities to buy subscriptions on music for all students and stop all P2P activity or they loose their federal funding. Nice to see a state extorting itself for money?!

Another way of earning money is to remove rights you have already allowed for many decades. One of the new ideas in the twisted heads of the Greedy Business ™ is to go after persons who have guitar tablatures on their home page. Tablatures they have written down by hear-by-ear, and now they are suddenly involved in copyright infringement.. How? It isn’t exactly a full digital copy, when you are talking about hear-by-ear? The tablatures have been there for as long as the internet has been around, but now they suddenly see another way of increasing they incredible wealth. Imagine a politician suing a voter for writing down his speak and publishing it on a website?… These guys are way beyond desperate!

Then another way of earning money is to take a digital technology they have done nothing to help growing and strangle it with new royalties. This is what the Greedy Business ™ is trying to do with Digital Radio – oh, and at the same time raise the royalties for traditional radio. No reason to miss an earning source! With the digital radio they then suddenly realise that they are killing the business, when 90% of webcasters are about to shut down their business, and then they make a time-limited offer to lower the new royalties – for the time being… Naturally all this is handled by the Greedy Business ™ representative, SoundExchange, which has been proven to be an expensive bureaucrat - and of course artists who wants to be paid royalties HAS to be a member of SoundExchange – ensuring that the Greedy Business ™ keep those irritating independent artists poor!

Then we come to the subject of punishment. How should copyright infringement be punished? Well, if you ask the Greedy Business ™ the answer is simple: Copyright infringement is far worse than burglary, fraud and bank robbery… Why? What are they thinking? How can they even think this? You are perhaps loosing a single CD sale caused by a P2P download, but unlike the bank robbery no one is faced with a double-barrelled shotgun, gets a nervous breakdown, forces the bank to close for several days and the robber goes out and can buy drugs and weapons for the stolen money.

Now that the Greedy Business ™ has critizised the law enforcement for not prioritizing P2P-copyright infringement above burglary, armed robbery and billion dollar fraud what do they themselves do to contain this problem? Do they themselves respect the law they claim others break? Unfortunately not! The RIAA’s IP gathering techniques are about to be busted, as they have been shown to be in contradiction to the current law. They have already been countersued by one of their plaintiffs for extortion, fraud and conspiracy – something you would expect from the mafia. At the same time the Greedy Business ™ is caught righthanded in entrapment, when confidential email was released to the public, showing that the Greedy Business ™ doesn’t mean that the law apply to them in any way. Their methods are somewhat the same you would expect from the mafia. These leaked documents have brought problems with them for the Greedy Business ™ as it is now clear for many that they have been using highly illegal methods like hacking, DDOS and directly involved in sabotage of the Pirate Bay, who is now suing them back on this basis. The Greedy Business ™ has often complained about the Pirate Bay, who is unfortunately for them completely legal in Sweden, but now it becomes even more problematic. It appears that the Greedy Business ™ doesn’t mind using the pirate data for their own earnings – even though they public critize them all the time. In normal business markets it is illegal to form price cartels. Unfortunately the Greedy Business ™ doesn’t consider themselves a normal business market, so naturally this law doesn’t apply them either. Of course to cover this fact from the eye of the law they do all they can to refuse access to the agreements formed among the big four in the music industry, which would show why the prices in this market is stalled, while the sales are failing… something you would not see in a working free market economy. Breaking the law doesn’t seem to constitute a problem for a company that keeps screaming about children that are perhaps breaking the law, wanting the law to do something about with without showing any real evidence for their claims beforehand…

This was the second part of the article series on the Greedy Business ™. Next time we conclude the series with discussing the only technology the Greedy Business ™ have brought into the digital age, DRM – Digital Rights Management...