Pay per play is the industry's goal. Believe me. As soon as DRM is in every component (speakers, etc) then fork over a penny each time you hear/see it.
You are correct that the copyright infringement that the RIAA has been going after is "distribution". However Matt Oppenheim from the RIAA has answered this question:
Is it illegal to download the MP3 version of a song that I have already purchased?
"As a technical matter, it is illegal to download a recording from another that is not yours. As a practical matter, there is no reason to do it. It is easier these days to rip a recording from a CD than to download it."
Hey, I'm all for getting busted. But please, should i go to jail for 43 months? Fined an actual fortune? Get a felony on my record and never get a normal job again?
Personally, I just want the punishment to fit the crime. It would be better for me to walk into a store and shoplift the CD's, than it is to download them.
The record industry has been PROVEN and BUSTED for price fixing. Their fine?? A small, small small percentage of their last 10 years of profit. Yet my fines will be 300% of a year's salary?
You are wrong. Look no further than the mp3.com case. Their new service "mymp3.com" allowed you as a user to pop in your originally owned cd's, and it would scan it to prove you had it. Then it made all the mp3's of that album available to you to stream from any computer.
They got sued, they lost. "Fair Use" does not cover downloading other people's version of the CD you bought. (And no, I don't like it)
Haven't you read those non-fiction hacker books? You know, the one where it's the point of view from the law enforcement side? The FBI is huge, and they're understaffed. They will only be going after the big'uns. You probably don't need to worry about your measly 200GB of mp3's.
And you're hoping it's like the drug campaigns? The war on drugs is one of the most enormous failures that hte US government has ever embarked upon. It's caused increased violence, helped to fund terrorism, and not slowed down the drug problem.
Hey now, it's only a failure because the CIA keeps bringing it in.
Sorry, but downloading someone else's ripped & encoded version of "Dark Side of the Moon" is not covered under the Fair Use Act, even if you own a copy.
This was made clear in the lawsuit against mp3.com back during it's mymp3.com release. (If you don't remember, they ripped & encoded about 60,000 albums onto their servers, and then all you had to do was pop in your ORIGINAL cd and it scanned it to make sure it was real. Then, suddenly you had that album available online, anwhere, streamable. --you didn't have to upload it)
You NEED to write a letter to the editor saying how much you enjoyed that column, and how much you are looking forward to more articles like that or from that columnist.
Or maybe it would mean only the REALLY big lobbyists with the fattest wallets would have any effect. Driving out the smaller lobbyists that actually might have a good cause.
And as our beloved Adobe people would say: Great! Now they have experience in our product and will be able to work for a company using that product. A company that pays for every copy of Photoshop.
It's been going on for a long time. The Printing Press. Electricity. Ebay & the internet has killed a lot of newsprint items this decade. The malls killed the ma & pa stores. Wal-mart kills the malls.
Great post by the way. But you missed one thing the RIAA would be quick to point out in the end of your last paragraph: Advertising to promote their 'products' is where their money is going. The retain a lot of lawyers, and they have a lot of political palms to grease too, (although those aren't they would point out)
Your comments are right on target. Add to the fact that they aren't LOSING money at all. They're bitching that their INCREASE in profits isn't as much as they had been used to. With the economy the way it is today, they really shouldn't have a leg to stand on.
Personally, I don't think businesses have the god-given right to have guaranteed profits.
DVD sales and especially computer game sales have really been booming. That is part of my entertainment dollar, and is probably the 2nd biggest reason why cd sales are down.
Oddly enough, I saw them called that on the Late-Night with Conan show (a repeat since it was on in the daytime, something very wrong with seeing a late night show in the sunlight!!)
They don't even need to come up with an amazing searching algorithm. Start with a blank database, and when someone types in a word to search....Search google. Populate database for future use. Throw a 5MB word document GUI to it, and call it MSSearch.
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Pay per play is the industry's goal. Believe me. As soon as DRM is in every component (speakers, etc) then fork over a penny each time you hear/see it.
Is it illegal to download the MP3 version of a song that I have already purchased?
"As a technical matter, it is illegal to download a recording from another that is not yours. As a practical matter, there is no reason to do it. It is easier these days to rip a recording from a CD than to download it."
I don't know. I do see they have new artwork, but not necessarily for sale in the poster form :(
You know... grizzly bear arms.
The power-shift idea is pretty good though. Keep 'em back home.
True, but I was comparing the budget of Phillip Morris to... ACLU?
You are familiar with this poster, right?
Personally, I just want the punishment to fit the crime. It would be better for me to walk into a store and shoplift the CD's, than it is to download them.
The record industry has been PROVEN and BUSTED for price fixing. Their fine?? A small, small small percentage of their last 10 years of profit. Yet my fines will be 300% of a year's salary?
They got sued, they lost. "Fair Use" does not cover downloading other people's version of the CD you bought. (And no, I don't like it)
Haven't you read those non-fiction hacker books? You know, the one where it's the point of view from the law enforcement side? The FBI is huge, and they're understaffed. They will only be going after the big'uns. You probably don't need to worry about your measly 200GB of mp3's.
Sorry, but the FBI doesn't have enough clout!
Hey now, it's only a failure because the CIA keeps bringing it in.
... and let the money grubbing music industry spend their own ill-gotten money on defending their own ill-gotten business model. thankyouverymuch
This was made clear in the lawsuit against mp3.com back during it's mymp3.com release. (If you don't remember, they ripped & encoded about 60,000 albums onto their servers, and then all you had to do was pop in your ORIGINAL cd and it scanned it to make sure it was real. Then, suddenly you had that album available online, anwhere, streamable. --you didn't have to upload it)
They lost, and with a fight. (Lawyers + money)
You NEED to write a letter to the editor saying how much you enjoyed that column, and how much you are looking forward to more articles like that or from that columnist.
Or maybe it would mean only the REALLY big lobbyists with the fattest wallets would have any effect. Driving out the smaller lobbyists that actually might have a good cause.
Yea, but we could fix the votes.
And as our beloved Adobe people would say: Great! Now they have experience in our product and will be able to work for a company using that product. A company that pays for every copy of Photoshop.
GM killed the Trolley
It's been going on for a long time. The Printing Press. Electricity. Ebay & the internet has killed a lot of newsprint items this decade. The malls killed the ma & pa stores. Wal-mart kills the malls.
Great post by the way. But you missed one thing the RIAA would be quick to point out in the end of your last paragraph: Advertising to promote their 'products' is where their money is going. The retain a lot of lawyers, and they have a lot of political palms to grease too, (although those aren't they would point out)
Personally, I don't think businesses have the god-given right to have guaranteed profits.
DVD sales and especially computer game sales have really been booming. That is part of my entertainment dollar, and is probably the 2nd biggest reason why cd sales are down.
Oddly enough, I saw them called that on the Late-Night with Conan show (a repeat since it was on in the daytime, something very wrong with seeing a late night show in the sunlight!!)
bummer about those child labor laws then. Imagine the booming businesses.
They don't even need to come up with an amazing searching algorithm. Start with a blank database, and when someone types in a word to search....Search google. Populate database for future use. Throw a 5MB word document GUI to it, and call it MSSearch.
Why bother suing those microsoftsucks.org sites when they simply (mysteriously) don't show up on search engines?
You mean that SCO is in the devil's nightmares? But what is SCO afraid of?