Friday , March 29 2024

More Cal P2P Testimony

We ran a substantial portion of attorney and P2P advocate Philip Corwin’s exceptional testimony before the California Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry. Other testimony yesterday was equally explosive:

    Free peer-to-peer music file-sharing has become larger than the multibillion-dollar recording industry, with a growth trend that has become “fundamentally unstoppable,” a state Senate committee exploring Internet piracy has been warned.

    The free downloading habit among 61 million Americans and millions more worldwide is “cemented,” with only 9 percent of U.S. downloaders believing they are doing anything wrong, media analyst Eric Garland told California lawmakers Thursday.

    “We see only one trend,” said Garland, founder of Beverly Hills-based Big Champagne, which analyzes Internet trends. “More people are downloading more copyrighted material.”

    Even as the Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry debated an issue bedeviling a powerful music and film industry that employs thousands of Californians, more than 4.2 million people worldwide were downloading files on the Australia-based file-sharing giant, Kazaa.

    Instead of fighting the trend, which he called a losing battle, Garland said the entertainment industry should embrace digital distribution rather than file lawsuits that only make more people aware of free downloads. [Washington Post]

Hmm, sounds familiar.

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Career media professional and serial entrepreneur Eric Olsen flung himself into the paranormal world in 2012, creating the America's Most Haunted brand and co-authoring the award-winning America's Most Haunted book, published by Berkley/Penguin in Sept, 2014. Olsen is co-host of the nationally syndicated broadcast and Internet radio talk show After Hours AM; his entertaining and informative America's Most Haunted website and social media outlets are must-reads: Twitter@amhaunted, Facebook.com/amhaunted, Pinterest America's Most Haunted. Olsen is also guitarist/singer for popular and wildly eclectic Cleveland cover band The Props.

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