Here Here, these companies shouldn't be allowed to create artificial trade barriers just because they can. I traval a fair bit and it pisses me off the I won't be able to play DVD's i've bought here when I return home or are in a different country.
Pity Alan Fels isn't running the ACCC anymore he was a force to be reckoned with!
Most of the collected data nowadays (and again I don't only mean Kazaa) is plain useless for anything even resembling an aggregate statistic.
Far from being useless, there are already a number of companies, for example http://www.bigchampagne.com/, that are tracking downloads on the p2p networks and selling the data to the recording industry. The data is used to find out which songs should be getting more airtime or to help discover new hits etc.
See this wired article for more information.
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Here Here, these companies shouldn't be allowed to create artificial trade barriers just because they can. I traval a fair bit and it pisses me off the I won't be able to play DVD's i've bought here when I return home or are in a different country. Pity Alan Fels isn't running the ACCC anymore he was a force to be reckoned with!