the message to VCs re p2p
From Michael Geist's BNA's Internet News: This Taipei Times article describes a "warning" from the International Federation of Phonographic Industry to "existing investors and potential investors to seriously consider their investments in unauthorized peer-to-peer network operators." Nice of them to help.
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These "pirates" of commercial music are nothing new. They have existed for at least as long as the cassette tape has been in existence. It's interesting how the music conglomerates have been able to dictate the terms of the debate. They have managed to trample "fair use" in the digital age because they finally have a means to track and prosecute the use of their copyright-protected material, the same means being used by all of their alleged "pirates".
I once knew a guy that spent one year in South Korea and came back with literally thousands of blackmarket cassette tapes. He said that they only cost him a dollar or two. This was at a time when the Internet was still in its infancy and nobody was burning CD-ROMs.
Here's the problem that we face: commercial vs. non-commercial use of copyrighted material. There's no way to tell the difference on the Internet, so of course the RIAA and its worldwide allies are going overboard. So how can we separate commercial from non-commercial use of digital media on the Internet? DRM (Digital "Rights" Management) isn't a viable solution because it infringes fair use. Rampant file-swapping doesn't seem to be working because it's sparking more and more litigation. Is there a way to create a file-swapping network that can distinguish between commercial and non-commercial use of digital media? Perhaps some kind of (and I know I'm gonna get flamed for this but I'm just blue-skying here) packetized broadcast flag?
The most practical view of the future is pretty simple: You start a band, record some music, and put a few samples on your website and let the viral, end-to-end effects of the Net take over from there. Bloggers replace Dick Clark and Google takes the place of Billboard. That sounds great to me, but it's understandable that Dick Clark and Billboard employees would oppose it. De-centralization isn't painless...just inevitable.
--K.
Jason wrote:
"The most practical view of the future is pretty simple: You start a band, record some music, and put a few samples on your website and let the viral, end-to-end effects of the Net take over from there. Bloggers replace Dick Clark and Google takes the place of Billboard. That sounds great to me, but it’s understandable that Dick Clark and Billboard employees would oppose it. De-centralization isn’t painless…just inevitable."
I think you hit the nail on the head. This article talks about the Internet's ability to make the previously expensive cost of 'information gathering' cheap. Hefty corporations that exist to tie disparate information gathering bodies together are already or soon to be overkill - the net drops the price of information gathering precipitously. The member companies of the RIAA are information gatherers - they sift through the mountain of music and try to present the 'winners' in a neat little package for consumers. The Internet enables consumers to efficiently sift through the plethora of music without help from the RIAA.
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