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By that token, reading your kid a bedtime story is illegal infringement of copyright via P2P storysharing.
On these filesharing programs you dont share files you copy files of other people. Thus you are making a copy of music and giving it away for free. If i made a copy of books and gave them out for free I would be charge for it. Reading a book to someone is not the same.
What would you do? They are trying to stop it by enfrocing their copyright. If you did this with a book in a store, something similar would happen.
what would i do? realize that filesharing is the wave of the future: invest heavily in DRM technologies, coopt the competition by setting up and pushing very hard something akin to the itunes store, and give extras--which are cheap, to those who join the store. maybe it's a secret track; or different remixes; or exclusive art, i don't know. finally, rather than sending out these letters which make everyone mad--mostly because they're demanding $150k per violation--i'd send out cease-and-desist letters first, before taking further legal steps.
it's not hard to do better pr than these folks. they're as bad as sco or the bush team.
It's still a transfer of information. What if the listener has a tape recorder? Or a very very good memory? What if you were reading it out down the phone to say 10 people?
It really is a no win situation for the Record Companies to sue... Why? The cases are going to cost so much that it will take them years to recoup a profit from it. On top of this, by that time there will be a new and crazy way to pirate things again...
What the record company needs to do is find another way to make a profit; cut costs by putting songs online for the soul purpose of download, encourage file sharing through there own filesharing program, promote more tours and sales of parafanila(spelling?), offer something "special" on CDs that are file encrypted so that they can't be copied... Or, just increase security measurements on the current CDs, and reduce the cost of the current CDs...
Heck, there are a lot better ways to go about this than stabbing their patrons in the back and discrediting their love for music by showing how much they only care about cash.
What would you do? They are trying to stop it by enfrocing their copyright. If you did this with a book in a store, something similar would happen.
what would i do? realize that filesharing is the wave of the future: invest heavily in DRM technologies, coopt the competition by setting up and pushing very hard something akin to the itunes store, and give extras--which are cheap, to those who join the store. maybe it's a secret track; or different remixes; or exclusive art, i don't know. finally, rather than sending out these letters which make everyone mad--mostly because they're demanding $150k per violation--i'd send out cease-and-desist letters first, before taking further legal steps.
it's not hard to do better pr than these folks. they're as bad as sco or the bush team.
If people can share music for free why would they pay an online service for it? That does not make sense.
Originally posted by Rogan Josh
It's still a transfer of information. What if the listener has a tape recorder? Or a very very good memory? What if you were reading it out down the phone to say 10 people?
Its already a matter of law, no one can sue you for listening to someone playing a CD or reading you a book. ONly when you make copies of it are you voilating the law.
If they really wanted to sue someone why not go after Sony instead of Kaaza and other file sharing services? I mean, Sony holds the patent on burnable CDs and was one of the first to sell CD burners and MP3 players... Sony is more responsible for propegating pirating than are the programs...
Originally posted by Q Cubed
because they won't be paying for the songs. they'd be paying for the extras. make the extras juicy enough, and they will bite.
I dont know about that. Besides someone would buy the extras and put it onto the filesharing program and then people can download that for free too.
Originally posted by Japher
If they really wanted to sue someone why not go after Sony instead of Kaaza and other file sharing services? I mean, Sony holds the patent on burnable CDs and was one of the first to sell CD burners and MP3 players... Sony is more responsible for propegating pirating than are the programs...
You cant, already a matter of law. The same reason why you cant go after the people that make video recorders.
I want to know when they are going after people who record off the radio?
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Originally posted by Japher
If they really wanted to sue someone why not go after Sony instead of Kaaza and other file sharing services? I mean, Sony holds the patent on burnable CDs and was one of the first to sell CD burners and MP3 players... Sony is more responsible for propegating pirating than are the programs...
cause its legal to burn a CD for your own purposes. You could be burning something youve paid for, something in the public domain, or even music youve made and recorded yourself.
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which is why, as i mentioned earlier, i'd invest heavily in DRM. there is no getting around the fact that p2p filesharing is here to stay; the only way these dinosaur companies will ever survive is if they adapt--if they learn how to use these new technologies to their advantage. rather than trying to stomp these programs out of existence, they should be trying to use them to their advantage.
Originally posted by Q Cubed
which is why, as i mentioned earlier, i'd invest heavily in DRM. there is no getting around the fact that p2p filesharing is here to stay; the only way these dinosaur companies will ever survive is if they adapt--if they learn how to use these new technologies to their advantage. rather than trying to stomp these programs out of existence, they should be trying to use them to their advantage.
The whole thing about p2p is that is free, and I dont see how people are use to getting music and software for free would now want to pay for it. Copy right protection on software is not full proof.
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