I think a lot of people need to be educated to the fact that not all file sharing involves copyrighted files! Of course, the Slashdot community realizes this, but everyone from ISPs to lawmakers to record labels need to realize that file sharing is used for many legitimate purposes. My company's GigaTribe (http://www.gigatribe.com) software, for example, allows people to share picture folders on their harddrive with family members on the other side of the world, thereby eliminating endless email attachments or mailing DVDs. We have users that use the application to back up dozens of gigabytes of stuff to another computer, and many of our users are professionals (teachers, photographers, webdesigners, etc...). In that sense, it's like other tools, guns and automobiles don't break laws, people do. Many tools have both legitimate and illegal usages.
M'kay, silly that they've held out for so long, just about everyone and their mom already has their albums, I'm sure people would rather buy their actual CDs than buy digital versions.
Also, is it just my ears, or does every album after Physical Grafitti suck ass?
Although I'd prefer she pay 150 bones rather than 220K, I'm not so sure the $9,000/song are meant to represent actual damages from her conduct, rather, it's meant to deter her (as well as others) from engaging in such hideously vile conduct in the future! Hopefully some good will spring from all this, like the widespread realization that private peer to peer sharing is better (and safer) than "wild" p2p à la Limewire/Kazaa/eMule... I use GigaTribe, which is probably the best private p2p app out there right now: http://www.gigatribe.com/
That article was some interesting reading...I'll bet someone got yelled at this morning! Damn I'd hate to be in his shoes. What was he thinking forwarding this stuff to his Gmail account? This company is toast. They can infiltrate p2p networks all they want, but they have a new p2p model to worry about now: private and encrypted p2p. How can they fight private p2p networks set up by individual groups of friends? GigaTribe is one example: http://www.gigatribe.com/
I'd have to agree that the quality of music "seems" to have gone down, but that's because most of the quality music is coming out on smaller, independent labels, which are underrepresented in music stores (what's left of them anyway!) and on TV/radio.
The music industry also tends to ignore the fact that the video game industry is steadily gaining share of consumer entertainment dollars. They blame file-sharing, and even sue file-sharers, and this is a "problem" that's not going to go away, especially now that there's encrytped file-sharing apps out there that keep people's exchanges private, such as GigaTribe: http://www.gigatribe.com/
Our GigaTribe software ( http://www.gigatribe.com/ ) lets users share specific folders on their harddrives with a private community of friends. Now, what's the difference with making available a portion of your harddrive to friends and making copies of the key to your front door and distributing them to friends? As far as I know, the latter is still legal (and people could walk in and borrow CDs), why shouldn't you have the right to let a few friends access your PC? (perhaps our GigaTribe software isn't really part of the main debate since our software is designed for private communities, and not millions of complete randoms?!)
The internet is, on the contrary, making it easier to discover and share new music. I'll bet he's never even been online! Get on GigaTribe, Elt, and share some of your tunes with your friends, in an encrypted environment: http://www.gigatribe.com/;-)
"...yellow brick road..."
all I know is, my Hotmail account gets tons of spam while my Yahoo account only gets about 1 a day in the main inbox...
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edit: Hotmail = spam (now is this post long enough?!)
I think the RIAA is just swinging the bat its last few times...it's only a matter of time until people all start using file-sharing apps that encrypt exchanges within a private network of friends (and the RIAA won't be able to track anyone down anymore)...one example of a great app that's growing in popularity is http://www.gigatribe.com/
I don't like this idea of royalties. Radio (online or off) PROMOTES music, so that listeners are able to decide what they want to BUY! Music fans have a new option for hearing and sharing music, there's encrypted file sharing apps, such as GigaTribe ( http://www.gigatribe.com/ ), that let people share music without big brother looking over their shoulder.
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I think a lot of people need to be educated to the fact that not all file sharing involves copyrighted files! Of course, the Slashdot community realizes this, but everyone from ISPs to lawmakers to record labels need to realize that file sharing is used for many legitimate purposes. My company's GigaTribe (http://www.gigatribe.com) software, for example, allows people to share picture folders on their harddrive with family members on the other side of the world, thereby eliminating endless email attachments or mailing DVDs. We have users that use the application to back up dozens of gigabytes of stuff to another computer, and many of our users are professionals (teachers, photographers, webdesigners, etc...). In that sense, it's like other tools, guns and automobiles don't break laws, people do. Many tools have both legitimate and illegal usages.
M'kay, silly that they've held out for so long, just about everyone and their mom already has their albums, I'm sure people would rather buy their actual CDs than buy digital versions. Also, is it just my ears, or does every album after Physical Grafitti suck ass?
Although I'd prefer she pay 150 bones rather than 220K, I'm not so sure the $9,000/song are meant to represent actual damages from her conduct, rather, it's meant to deter her (as well as others) from engaging in such hideously vile conduct in the future! Hopefully some good will spring from all this, like the widespread realization that private peer to peer sharing is better (and safer) than "wild" p2p à la Limewire/Kazaa/eMule... I use GigaTribe, which is probably the best private p2p app out there right now: http://www.gigatribe.com/
That article was some interesting reading...I'll bet someone got yelled at this morning! Damn I'd hate to be in his shoes. What was he thinking forwarding this stuff to his Gmail account? This company is toast. They can infiltrate p2p networks all they want, but they have a new p2p model to worry about now: private and encrypted p2p. How can they fight private p2p networks set up by individual groups of friends? GigaTribe is one example: http://www.gigatribe.com/
I'd have to agree that the quality of music "seems" to have gone down, but that's because most of the quality music is coming out on smaller, independent labels, which are underrepresented in music stores (what's left of them anyway!) and on TV/radio. The music industry also tends to ignore the fact that the video game industry is steadily gaining share of consumer entertainment dollars. They blame file-sharing, and even sue file-sharers, and this is a "problem" that's not going to go away, especially now that there's encrytped file-sharing apps out there that keep people's exchanges private, such as GigaTribe: http://www.gigatribe.com/
Our GigaTribe software ( http://www.gigatribe.com/ ) lets users share specific folders on their harddrives with a private community of friends. Now, what's the difference with making available a portion of your harddrive to friends and making copies of the key to your front door and distributing them to friends? As far as I know, the latter is still legal (and people could walk in and borrow CDs), why shouldn't you have the right to let a few friends access your PC? (perhaps our GigaTribe software isn't really part of the main debate since our software is designed for private communities, and not millions of complete randoms?!)
The internet is, on the contrary, making it easier to discover and share new music. I'll bet he's never even been online! Get on GigaTribe, Elt, and share some of your tunes with your friends, in an encrypted environment: http://www.gigatribe.com/ ;-)
"...yellow brick road..."
how can you get spam in your hotmail account if it's set to only accept names that are in your address book?
all I know is, my Hotmail account gets tons of spam while my Yahoo account only gets about 1 a day in the main inbox... _ edit: Hotmail = spam (now is this post long enough?!)
I think the RIAA is just swinging the bat its last few times...it's only a matter of time until people all start using file-sharing apps that encrypt exchanges within a private network of friends (and the RIAA won't be able to track anyone down anymore)...one example of a great app that's growing in popularity is http://www.gigatribe.com/
I don't like this idea of royalties. Radio (online or off) PROMOTES music, so that listeners are able to decide what they want to BUY! Music fans have a new option for hearing and sharing music, there's encrypted file sharing apps, such as GigaTribe ( http://www.gigatribe.com/ ), that let people share music without big brother looking over their shoulder.
What a waste of time...I buy my CDs in Germany because it's taxed less there; in France a CD is taxed as a luxury good, which is 19.6%!!