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Kazaa Founder Wants Us To Find "Legitimate" Files
Just because I'm an writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Kevin Bermeister and Michael Speck have been developing technology to return search results on file sharing programs that point to pay-for content from the copyright holders. The article reports that there are trials planned for Australian ISPs, with interest from elsewhere on the globe."
FTA:
"When an ISP's customers use a file sharing program such as LimeWire to, for example, search for a pirated music track, they are instead presented with a list of search results containing legitimate versions of the song and are given the opportunity to buy it instantly."
The day my ISP start manipulating my searches is the day when I cancel my subscription and move to greener pastures.
"I have downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records, why would I care if somebody downloads ours?" Robin Pecknold
I want a system that consolidates searching and links to all freely licensed content. There's plenty of it, if you know where to look, and it's all I need. It's just kind of a pain to track it down.
The problem with free indie music is that it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. The existing studio system might suck as gatekeepers (these were the people who gave Britney Spears a recording contract, after all). But at least when you see a studio-signed recording artist you get SOME assurance that the album will at least be professionally produced and that the artist has SOME talent (Ashley Simpson and Kelly Osbourne aside).
If indie music is to really overthrow the studio system, the field needs some form of gatekeepers. Mere word of mouth isn't enough (too many really talented artists will be ignored in favor of talentless hacks who just happen to have a lot of myspace friends).
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Want to know why?
A "western" "developed" (capitalist) country, English speaking (in the main), and a relatively small population. Things can be tested out and tried, and if there are objections, then these can be taken into consideration before (if) the product ever makes it to market.
Potentially pissing off 21 million people is a lot better then potentially pissing off 60 million or 300 million.
Why not New Zealand? Well, maybe less then five million people means that the sample size isn't quite big enough? I don't know.
I wank in the shower.
Where ever his media has significant market share, the population has made wild swings toward corporatism.
Nice way to damage your own argument, by introducing off-topic and irrelevant "socialist/democrat" McCain flamebait. :-)
At least get your terms straight.
Socialism, BTW, is when the state controls corporations.
When corporations control information (and the state, since people don't like information control) it is called "fascism". Fascism shares a lot in common with 'mercantilism', the system of corporate rule in the Colonies which lead to the Boston Tea Party, and so the USA.