Brilliant, logical, clear presentation in favor of enabling P2P as the savior rather than the destroyer of the entertainment industry by attorney Philip S. Corwin, as presented yesterday before the California Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry - well worth the time to read if you want to understand what the debate is all about:
- Testimony of Philip S. Corwin
Partner, Butera and Andrews, Washington, D.C.
Regarding P2P: The Path to Prosperity for the Entertainment Industry Before
California Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry
Sacramento, California
March 27, 2003
Senator Murray and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to share my views with you today regarding the impact of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology on the entertainment industry. We all now know that the acronym P2P stands for peer-to-peer. It is my belief that P2P also stands for path to prosperity. This powerful technology will transform the entertainment industry and deliver it, and the Nation's artist and consumers, into a new age of cultural and economic abundance. I commend you for holding this hearing so that your Committee can better inform itself about the realities of this powerful new technology, since effective and relevant public policy must always be informed by the truth.
Like you and the members of the Committee, I have devoted my career to the shaping of public policy. It has been my privilege to participate in the public policy debate surrounding digital media since 1999, when I represented MP3.com on Capitol Hill. I currently serves as a legislative consultant to CenterSpan Communications, a Portland, Oregon-based provider of intermediated and digital rights management (DRM) protected P2P backbone technology for licensed content.
I also lobby on behalf of Sharman Networks, the Sydney, Australia-based distributor of the Kazaa Media desktop (KMD) software. Worldwide downloads of KMD just surpassed 200 million, and it appears that later this month it will surpass ICQ to become the most downloaded software in history. During the course of this afternoon, between lunch and dinner, about 100,000 more copies will be downloaded worldwide.
In addition to representing my clientele on copyright and technology issues, I also serve as the Washington liaison for the American Bar Association's Section of Science and Technology, and as legislative reporter for the ABA's Cyberspace Law Committee. Next Friday, at the ABA Business Law Section's Spring Meeting in Los Angeles, I will participate in a panel discussion of "Internet Issues for the Entertainment Industry" sponsored by the Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the Cyberspace Law Committee.
The views I present to you today are solely my own and not those of any client I represent or organization I belong to.
Article comments
1 - aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh
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.