P2P Calls in Air Strikes
Published March 28, 2003
P2P can also provide the platform for new entertainment ventures. Digital broadcaster Pseudo.com has just started releasing an advertiser-supported weekly TV show starring rap star Ice-T to Kazaa's 60 million registered users. Pseudo President Edward Salzano urged his colleagues to embrace this new distribution mode, saying, "The entertainment industry has to get it together and use the technology to their advantage".15
The economic and technological benefits of P2P are so compelling that it will surely play a major and probably dominant role in digital media distribution. As wired and wireless broadband becomes ubiquitous and storage becomes ever denser and cheaper, content will reside on all manner of devices beyond the PC. Nor is P2P limited to the Internet. Indeed, cable and satellite TV set top
boxes equipped with large hard drives may well become the primary platform for digital media storage and retransmission within closed, proprietary networks.
The Logic of Compulsory Licensing to Benefit Artists
As I noted earlier, such artist representatives as Ken Hertz have advocated that compulsory blanket licensing for non-commercial file sharing should be legislated as a means of monetizing consumer demand. The revenues generated from such a license would supplement revenues collected through various paid digital media services. And these revenues could be substantial - a $1 per month supplemental levy on ISP subscribers in the U.S. and Canada alone would generate upwards of $2 billion per year. Given the broad range of devices and activities that it could apply to, even an extremely modest levy could generate large new income streams.
Such a compulsory license has ample precedent in prior public sector responses to new media technologies as diverse as the piano roll, radio, cable and satellite television, and the digital audio tape recorder. Blank music CD-Rs are already subject to a U.S. levy meant to compensate rights holders and creators, just as hard drive storage is in Canada and optical disc "burners" are in Germany.
Sharman Networks began advocating just such an approach to Congress last year, advising the House Judiciary Committee:
Sharman's primary recommendation is that the Committee should give serious consideration to the concept of an Intellectual Property Use Fee (IPUF) that would recognize, legitimize and monetize the reality of the unprotected and irretrievable digital media files that consumers are sharing and storing using a wide variety of software and hardware, in order to best serve the incentive ends of copyright law.16
The IPUF concept is grounded in the belief that all parties who facilitate and derive economic benefit from consumers' non-commercial reproduction and distribution of copyrighted media should be considered as potential contributors to the compulsory revenue pool. That pool should be distributed directly and proportionately to rights holders and creators based on statistical sampling surveys that measure such utilization through means respectful of individual privacy. IPUF furthers the Constitutional directive to promote the progress of science and the useful arts through the provision of economic incentives, while recognizing that enforcement of the exclusive rights to control reproduction and distribution of copyrighted works is problematic in the digital era.
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this was great i am happy to see that others are benifiting to open mindness
of new technologies/ and sad to see that the world is all about price gouging/ worries of hollywood suicide and most inportant greed. I believe point in case
as a consumer of movies and music and will come straight out and say it as no one else will -fear of are goverment I guess.
1. movies-are so many experience good and bad /sad and happy -and so many experinces have been held on the cinimatic screen exploited/ and life situations to catastrophies of floods/earthquakes to aliens and how we view them. theaters are great experinces
but some times the translation is lost
and can only be gained by home expirence . thanks to technolgy we have that choice. are own tiny theater -surround
speakers /flat screen tv's -can you accually blame people for not wanting to sit in a theatre were some lady smells and has a crying baby. also might i add
that downloading of a movie is a differn't experiance all together-you have this wierd tech-feeling you get that we accually have moved into the future 2004. That u can not belive that u are accually watching this on a computer and quite an overwellming feeling just ask the executives of the movie industry /when they wanted to know exactly what was going on with the p2p
and one them said ooh let me show u and downloaded the matrix revolutions. so point in case no matter if u are watching it on a hollywood screen or
a computer screen-if u like what u watched -its most likly going to influince you to purchase it on dvd.
(mundanity i love it.)
1. big fish-saw in theatre -bought it on dvd
2. finding nemo-down·load·ed-bought it on dvd
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Music it enriches are lives its one thing everyone agrees on -just not the form/ rap/hip-hop/ and boy bands and fake corporation meglaconglomerates
are now choosing the way we are to listen to music/ and how we are to view
who's hot and who's not. show's like american idol that cuts people's dreams and hopes down to size that does not fit the profile in fashion/and music style are outcasted. music should not be this way/ 2004 music terms are lets take the-sex out /no drugs/ hay what about just the rock and we can sell it as is.
nope it just doen't happen that way . some of the best groups like the sex-pistols were wacked out of their minds and made the best music. can u
imagine what john lennon would have been
like without drugs. the groups that no
one will hear such as revolver exept in small circles. here's my biggest point I own 3000 cd's used to have 2000 tapes
but traded them in for cd's. but still downloaded music to hear the new upcoming bands that no one wanted u to hear too controversial i guess. And help
people to experince music that they would not open up to. and vice versa
I have helped a 50 year old man to gain music back that his ex-threw out and thought he would never hear ever again.
Some of this music i downloaded I thought was good but not good enough to buy-as the letter to senator murry states just samplings never albums.
in a couple of cases was given full albums/ but one was the new mattalica and it just sucked sooooo bad that i gave it away. the other a new anthrax album-which i kept but plan to buy or get it at a pawn shop for the cover art .
and info in the jacket. so bottom line
music is music whatever the jonra. i have been buying cd's so long and also enjoy finding groups on the net like maroon 5 /overkill and d.r.i / groups not many listen too. last point -distrubution of these kind of music
can be bought but are hard to find it's either bidding on ebay for em-or special order. just try and find scars of the crucifix -from deicide not a liked group but hay someone listens to it.
thanks for the time/ viva la p2p controversy and the history that is made.