This painting of the entire technology industry as an evil conspiracy seems to have it's memetic origin with "Free Ride" by Billboard editor Robert Levine, which appears to have been timed to coincide with the push for SOPA and PIPA.

Creative Commons is pushing Google's agenda. The mother-in-law of Sergey Brin [co-founder of Google], who has no background in law and no background in copyright, is Vice of their board. She is there because Sergey Brin gave a lot of money. This is not serving the best interest for artists this is serving the best interests for Google. People say that Creative Commons is doing important work and what they're trying to do is great, but if you want to have a serious, respected organization it needs to have a serious respected board. What you have now is a joke, so if you want to be taken seriously, put artists on the board.

What are your feelings about the tech companies' opposition to the PROTECT IP Act?

People on the other side don't say, "Hey, we have certain problems with these certain parts of the PROTECT IP Act." They say, "We don't want any legislation at all, things are fine." I think it's time for the other side, if they don't like this act, to come up with another solution to protect our rights.

It is, of course, enormously frustrating to hear PIPA supporters complain that no one raised specific objections. That is utter bullshit. Specific suggestions regarding due process for takedown requests were rejected vocally by PIPA supporters because they weren't "efficient enough."

The recording industry is engaged in a well funded, multifaceted campaign to discredit anyone who objects to the maximization of their power. This is going to get worse before it gets better.