About Pirates Prison Project (PPP)
Note: this is the 'real' part;)
The idea of PPP got started in early 2008, during a conversation about the dismal state of the music industry, at a music industry conference in Cannes. In the summer of 2008, the project's founders were joined by an enthusiastic and skilled team of video producers, advertising creatives and web designers in Paris, and PPP began to take shape quickly.
Paris turned out to be a very good home for PPP since the French government has also become a leading proponent of the proposed scheme of 'graduated response' i.e. the idea of disconnecting people that allegedly share music online. The European Commission has so far refused to support these so-called 'graduated response' plans, both in France as well as in the UK- but we shall see how much additional pressure the industry's lobby groups can still apply.
From the start, the idea of PPP was to make fun of the increasingly scary proposals of the traditional music industry (i.e. what's left of it) to further criminalize the actual consumption habits of 100s of Millions of music fans, and their widespread sharing of digital music files, streams and links.
Rather than working on providing economically realistic and commercially feasible licenses to the ISPs, telecoms, Internet companies, portals & social networks, search engines, broadcasters and the many digital music start-ups that urgently need it, the incumbent music industry giants are continuing their strategy of 'control & stall'.
Now, their various lobbying groups, many leading government officials and indeed many music rights societies are demanding that Internet users should be monitored and threatened with disconnection if they are suspected of sharing music online. In other words, permission-to-use the music is denied to the public so that outmoded business models don't need to be materially changed.
PPP's Dimitri Johnson thinks that this is simply unfair and monopolistic business practice. Just like Radio, a hundred years ago, the Internet first disrupts but then also expands the traditional music industry model and it looks like this amazing opportunity will - once again - not be embraced until the pain is big enough.
The recording industry is continuously stonewalling the new digital music and social media ecosystem that is growing very quickly, worldwide, and is thereby rendering 95% of the world's Internet users (i.e. all of us) guilty of copyright infringement, by default. Click on the wrong link, save the wrong file and you're subject to fines, sanctions and yes... disconnection, and imprisonment.
While over 900 Million people interact on social networks - and music is one of their biggest interests - the music industry has still not seen it fit to license the Internet just like it finally licensed radio (after much deliberation and public pressure): with a collective license and a flat rate that covers everything and everyone's actual usage and behavior; a bundled offering that includes legal access and use of music, and a way of deriving new revenues that are wrapped into other services - and then build another business on-top of this.
Instead, lobby groups want our governments to pass new laws that would allow your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and network operator to threaten to cut you off if you are suspected to be sharing and downloading 'content' that is deemed unlicensed (i.e. not paid for under terms that they would dictate). This goes along with their past strategy of using the power of decade-old laws to enforce a failed business model: more than 25.000 people were sued for sharing music online, worldwide, already.
Let's be clear: this is a fight for Control of the new ecosystem, not for whether or how the artists' work will be paid for in the future. This is not about Copyright - it's about economic dominance.
Note: this is the 'Parody' part;)
But - back to PPP, here is the good news: this development has led the PPP group to foresee a gigantic business opportunity that has been inadvertently generated by the traditional music industry. We will without a doubt need 100s of 1000s of new prisons, everywhere, to lock up almost every single Internet user, one after the other, to make sure the letter of the law is respected once again - for after everyone is threatened to be disconnected they will certainly find other ways to connect; and act even more illegally than before. A veritable gold mine!
Since the power of the Internet and the devices that will access it are growing every single day, and the newly developing countries are all going online as you read this, the PPP group anticipates the need for several Billion people to be jailed for at least a few days or even weeks at a time, or as long as it takes to re-educate them. This will include young people, children, elderly - anyone. What a fantastic new business!
Therefore, we want to share this once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity with you, and with the entire world, and offer stock in PPP to anyone that wants it - this is particularly relevant given the current economic crisis, as the PPP business is guaranteed and future-proof.
PPP has made a series of videos that show why this opportunity is unique and why you should invest - watch them here; and read more about buying your stocks, reserving a cell, or denouncing a friend here.
Do good and get rich, at the same time. BUY NOW.
Legal notice: PPP is a parody. It's not for real. Have fun!
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