What? You gave your spare change to help SGAE!? Shame on you! :D

I’m going to download this song and I have nothing to give right now

Sure, if i downloaded the song i would not be giving the earthquake cause any of my money – but i sure as shit am not taking any money away!

The SGAE didn’t write any music. They didn’t organize any events.

All they did is tell the artists/producers that they would try to limit the amount of copyright fraud – any now they want money for doing it?

Reminds me of when the Russian Mafia used to ask the company i work for for ‘protection money’. Protection from them of course.

I might download the song and have a listen – and i don’t think i will be donating any money to the cause

(everyone in L’Aquila knows they are on prime earthquake territory, and those who didn’t pay for home insurance now want money?

Everyone in Italy puts there home insurance money into a pot. Those who have there old stone homes knocked down get a new one built courtesy of everyone who also has home insurance. It isn’t charity is society.

Furthermore, Italy is a wealthy country!! The government have more than enough cash to fix this mess – and they will!

Humanitarian aid like people on the ground helping to clear rubble is one thing – these guys really make a difference.

But cash? Pssh, please. That isn’t what’s needed at all.)

Have i stolen anything? Have i even been than much of a bastard to listen to a song which is all over the radio and TV in Italy? Do i intend to use the song to make money or gain status?

No, no, and no.

The ‘pirates’ are the only good people left.

They don’t. They’re selfish and only think about themselves.

Truly appalling.

true folks in this world like that dont give a dam*e about the poor people some do care but thats rar

Not only have they got their hand in the “charity” cookie jar, and you kkkkknnnnoooooow they do, but, also using it as a tool against p2p. So in essence now they’re trying to make us pay through our own donations to support their morally bankrupt thinking and actions against us, good, giving, sharing people.

No, FIMI put the song up on bittorrent and then pirated it themselves to make P2P look bad. Apparently Italy is taking a page from the U.S. playbook and doing away with innocent until proven guilty.

- Demonize your competitors.
- Try to take money in every way possible and imaginable and if you can get away with it, do it.

Antitrust laws exist but I doubt that the industry follows them like with the power to pick and choose to whom you can sell distribution rights and manipulate the prices.

But the ramifications of this type of behavior have profound implications for communities worldwide.

i take pennies from the money drives. it’s no big deal everyone i work with at modine inc does things like this.

http://donate.ifrc.org/

they would rather just take for themselves than actually help bring some relief to a valid cause.

very telling, IMO.

You’re confused.

SGAE insisted they were entitled to steal 10% of the charity proceeds because they’re greedy f?cking pieces of sh?t, then buckled under the public backlash and donated it all back.

Downloading the song doesn’t take money out of anybody’s pocket, however. So if everybody who downloaded it paid back what they took from the charity, then they’d be paying back a whopping $0.

You want people to donate nothing? Because that’s what you’re saying.

Ive never even heard of this earthquake shows how much they tell us over here in Australia.

i wonder if ALL the people who downloaded instead of supporting the charity will now follow SGAE’s lead and actually contribute what they owe?

probably not.

all the anti-corporate nonsense just fell flat on its face. just like it does every time someone pirates something from a tiny independent record label or musician.

the italian pirates have proven themselves to be just as greedy and selfish as the people they supposedly despise.

George, sorry that Sony/BMG screwed you. I know that company, and its former leader Clive Davis is pure evil. (Now time to go to coda.fm and look for Sony music to download ;) )

It’s very thoughtful that the wealthy musicians have donated their time to have a benefit concert, but it’s not nice that the music industry officials are exploiting this opportunity to further the propaganda for their own selfish needs.

Using the medical condition of an innocent person just to get publicity for their own cause is utterly selfish and immoral. If they truly cared about this person they would have donated 100% of all proceeds to the intended recipient right from the very beginning.

They have a history of exploiting so many people including the artists that they claim to defend as well as exploiting and extorting money from grannies and low income children, but to go further to exploit someone who needs medical help; they’ve just hit the lowest level imaginable.

To millionaire music artists, multimillionaire music executives and multibillion dollar music corporations, money is really no object. If they really cared, they would donate money themselves and finally give a little bit back to the world after they’ve “earned” their million dollar mansions, penthouses, yachts, limousines and private jets.

They don’t. They’re selfish and only think about themselves.

Truly appalling.

This seems like some sort of sick joke, too bad its real.