This link has been bookmarked by 24 people . It was first bookmarked on 29 Jul 2008, by Jonathan Bailey.
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03 Aug 08
adam muir"The record industry will not be in charge of the characteristics of filesharing systems. They may get remunerated for their use, but they won't be able to dictate their functionality, no matter how many children they criminalise. If they want to cash in
filesharing music_industry piracy copyright privacy legal business corydoctorow
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02 Aug 08
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Michel BauwensThe deal between record companies and ISPs will drive music-swapping underground and erode their profits still further
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01 Aug 08
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31 Jul 08
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before, anyone who wanted your ISP to spy on your internet connection would have had to show evidence to a judge and get a court order, now any joker who claims to be an aggrieved copyright holder can do so.
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the new scheme allows ISPs and their pals in the record industry to randomly shake up your connection like a snow-globe, dropping some or all of your services – whether you're using your VoIP phone to speak to your dying granny in Australia or downloading the latest hit single
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The law is for "minor crimes" like rape and murder – when it comes to serious crimes like downloading songs, we need a "streamlined process" that makes the War on Terror look like a slow-moving, cautious thing.
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Kids are time-rich and cash-poor and have an infinite supply of ingenuity and impecuniousness to apply to the job of getting music for free.
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whenever technology makes it impossible to police a class of copyright use, we've solved the problem by creating blanket licences.
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when the US sheet-music publishers sued the record-makers for selling recordings of their compositions, they were given a simple solution: anyone is allowed to record your music, provided they pay you a set fee for it.
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The record industry will not be in charge of the characteristics of filesharing systems. They may get remunerated for their use, but they won't be able to dictate their functionality, no matter how many children they criminalise. If they want to cash in on filesharing, they'd better do it soon, before every potential licence fee payer decides to opt out of the system forever.
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30 Jul 08
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29 Jul 08
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stanley stevensthe music recording industry is so far from the "Web 2.0" or even Web 1.0 era that they're eventually going to be run out of business unless they start innovating and compromising
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