Slashdot Mirror
Music Industry Develops Centralized File-Sharing System
pearljam145 writes "A new file-sharing standard designed to distribute copyrighted music and movies legitimately has been developed by a technology consortium. The system could deliver any content format to any computer, and users might even earn rewards points for sharing the files. Using the new standard, computer users could share small files containing information about music, video or other data, but not the content itself. The Content Reference Forum (CRF), founded by Universal Music Group backed by technology companies including Microsoft, is hoping the sharing file standard will be adopted by technology companies and incorporated into software music players."
its called usenet. and people share huge files there anyway. if this catches on little jimmy is going to be learning about tar archives pretty quickly.
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
so... this program will help me correctly fill in the ID3 tags of all my MP3's? Thanks :)
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Because the files contain no content, they could be distributed in any way without concerns about piracy.
I can see how consumers will love sharing and downloading nothing. RIAA version of File-sharing becomes Nothing-sharing.
Ontday alktay about usenetbay!
Haven't we learned that centralized file sharing isn't a good idea? This'll get shut down by the music industry in no tim-- oh, never mind.
Step 1: Create a really stupid P2P system.
Step 2: Convince Congress to outlaw everything else.
Step 3: Profit
The banner image on the http://crforum.org/ site says everything about what the companies involved think about themselvs.
They are living in a dream world. And that is a good thing.
ATH0 Bitcoin: 1DnwFLXczVZV8kLJbMYoheUrpqHesjxrSi
You know what's really SO great about this proposed file sharing system?
What's so great is that it doesn't actually allow you share anything. OH . . . MY . . . GOD! SIGN ME UP!!!
Now i can make "metadatas" that say things like "Britney Speerz r0XX0rZ! sHe 0wnz j00! loolollllol!!1!!11! omgroflbrb!!111!!!1" and . . . and . . . OMG! i can SHARE these with all my friends!!!
and then, presumably, because they had that metadata, they would now have the permissions necessary to purchase her music from some online music store without getting to listen to it first! Man! I WISH that wal-mart worked that way, but they'll let just ANYBODY come in and buy music without listening to it first, or, or, they try to make you preview it on those nasty headphone things? ew?
And they don't even give you POINTS for it.
God, i love points. One time, i got like, a millions points on pac-man, and i almost creamed my shorts.
iTunes is so dead.
** Chigusaaa!!! You're the coolest girl in the WORLD!!! **
After that article about Steganography on FreeBSD awhile back, I think I finally found a use for it!
if i could say anything to the music industry, i would say: "you want it all, but you can't have it! yeah, yeah, yeah."
here is the final solution:
1. entire music industry decides to represent music, not recordings. "recorded music is dead!" they finally cede, joining ranks of some of the best musicians in the world as improv artists. recording industry part of the music industry dies.
2. music industry re-assesses the value of the poor instrument makers, sound technicians, and studio owners who underpinned the recording industry the entire time. how to get them and musicians paid while leaving shared songs free?
3. for musicians, life doesn't change. musicians go to studios, record songs, and they are quickly copied to and shared on the internet for free. listeners find their favorite artists. artists gain popularity, recognition, and prestige. stardom lives on.
<fame> i'm gonna live 4evar!!!111!!!1!!!
4. ambitious people want the fame. they buy instruments, recording equipment (which is needed in the studio process and computers are still behind in that league,) music lessons, and pay sound technicians and executives a lot of money for advice (execs,) and ridicule (techs.)
5. the money of all of these sales goes to the recording industry. the musicians spend money to the music industry in order to invest in becoming famous. the songs are still free unless they sell recordings -- mass-producers are still willing to press albums, which would be dirt-cheap now that sharing is legal but only die-hard fans want to buy cd's, and low demand keeps prices pretty high, still several or a dozen dollars a disc.
6. the musicians want the money to come in where it has always been -- the gigs and tours. more popular musicians go on more tours and make more money. they are more popular by making better songs, which fans are familiar with and appreciative of because they got the songs for free off the internet. the music industry sells them bunches of road techs, architects, instruments and equipment to smash, anarchists, the works. industry profits and musicians rake it in.
7. a bardic way of life returns where touring isn't some 'hassle' for some lame-ass, half-ass musician in 'rolling stone'. touring becomes a way of life. music becomes magic. crowds become hordes and musicians make more money than they ever would have dreamed they could make. they are music industry's number one customers and music industry floats in the air on top of enormous profits coming in from the bardic class. music industry returns to the period of artisans and actually being good at producing musical instruments and equipment, rather than being cheap.
8. retrospectively, fans realize that the recording industry and its long, hard battle to survive was their own damn fault. they should have ditched recording music long ago. music played live, improvisationally in all forms, is living music. even the mp3 is dead. suddenly phish phans were before their time -- the fact that western civilization is all about entertainment dawns on the masses and exodus begins as people re position themselves geographically to be nearer to their favorite artists.
9. hippies don't know how to use birth control. the world population spins out of control and all the migrating nomadic anarchist hippies have too many children for the ecology to support. the world ends because issues of entertainment were more important to the most powerful and decisive nation in world history than even their own moral and eugenic principles. humanity fails. earth dies. life is snuffed out.
10. paul simon writes a lyric and philip glass plays a song to accompany the empty universe. paul mccartney dies. then any musician who ever spoiled the british crown by accepting a knighthood die, the savages.
"Stratigraphically the origin of agriculture and thermonuclear destruction will appear essentially simultaneous" -- Lee
I, for one, welcome our birdshot-spewing overlords.
Contain no content?
Someone ought to suggest them Write-Only Memory as a better solution to the p2p problem.
Timeo idiotikOS et dona ferentes
This is like trying to stop underage drinking by offering teenagers free O'Douls.
------ The best brain training is now totally free : )