P2P Calls in Air Strikes
Published March 28, 2003
Professor Neil Netanel of the University of Texas School of Law advocated a similar approach at a conference held at American University's Washington College of Law last October. There, he proposed, "allowing untrammeled noncommercial P2P file swapping in return for imposing a levy on certain P2P-related services and products".17 This levy, which he dubbed a "Noncommercial Use Levy" (NUL), would be imposed on such parties as ISPs, manufacturers of computers and a variety of burning devices and consumer electronics products, manufacturers of storage media, and commercial providers of P2P software. In return, individuals' copying, distribution, and noncommercial adaptations and modifications of such shared digital content would be granted clear legal protection from charges of copyright infringement.
By emphasizing monetization over criminalization, a compulsory license approach seeks to adapt to rather than suppress consumers' intuitive use of their new hardware and software tools for media storage and transmission. Additional compulsory license initiatives could also remove many of the obstacles that have frustrated the offering of broad content offerings on paid digital services. For example, despite the corporate affiliations between the largest music publishers and the record labels, obtaining online publishing rights for paid services has been a constant roadblock that a new and appropriately
designed compulsory license could remove.
A Mixed Use Business Model
By compelling the diversification of music sector revenues beyond primary dependence on the twenty year old technology of the CD, and by providing new revenue streams through both compulsory licensing and paid online services, the digital upheaval will greatly benefit the recording industry over the long
term. This is by no means to say that the sale of hard goods will end - just that the hard goods sold will be new and improved.
One of the greatest mistakes the recording industry has made is to repeat the mantra in service to their myopic anti-piracy campaign that a digital download using P2P software is equivalent to a CD. It is most certainly not the same thing. As I've already described, P2P is primarily a singles sampling and not a CD replacement service. In addition, there are inherent qualitative differences between a full audio file and one that has undergone dramatic compression to facilitate its transfer over the Internet. Whether MP3, Windows Media, or any other compression format, the file is shrunk by tossing out three-quarters or more of the data contained in a WAV file on a CD. Such files are more like FM than CD quality. They sound OK through a portable player's headphones or small computer speakers, but their reduced audio quality is apparent on any good quality stereo.
Rather than telling consumers that MP3s are equivalent to a CD and that they are "pirates" for downloading them, the industry would do much better to adopt a marketing campaign that recognizes their sampling function and the limits of audio compression - say something along the lines of "You've heard the MP3, now buy the full quality CD".
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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.