Wouldn't it make sense for the artists to sue themselves for releasing the music in the first place, and thereby allowing other people to make copies of it?
Here in the UK, trials of phone voting have been carried out in local elections. All properly secure (as far as phone voting can be made secure) and well protected against rigging by use of unique identifying numbers (which aren't recorded, paranoid types). More importantly though, it used technology that the vast majority of the electorate has access to and is familiar with.
Such a system makes much more sense to me as it would unboubtedly be far cheaper to implement than somehow trying to get people through the process of voting on a computer. It's more inclusive, too, because it's a simple matter of listening to a prompt and pressing a button, so even the densest of the populace are likely to be able to handle it - I'm sure there's people who don't vote because they're too embarrassed to admit they can't read the ballot paper (I could make a wisecrack about American literacy rates here, but I won't). They even set up the trial here so that you could choose to hear instructions in minority languages such as Urdu and Punjabi.
A bunch of guys I work with here in the UK conducted a very successful trial of a phone voting system, in a local council election. Personally I think this makes much more sense when viewed from anything other than a blinkered, "the-internet-is-my-life" perspective. Millions of people don't have access to computers, nor any inclination to get involved with them. Nearly everybody has a phone, and are quite happy to use them. It's a godsend for 90-year-old ladies that would love to vote but can't get out of the house, and from the perspective of security, considering that its only connection to the outside world is via a phone line it's pretty hard to hack. To prevent multiple voting was a simple matter of giving each caller a unique number and then deactivating their vote once the number had been entered.
Think about it, it solves all the problems, doesn't it? Sometimes the best approach isn't always the most modern. You lot can't see the wood for the trees, methinks.
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Wouldn't it make sense for the artists to sue themselves for releasing the music in the first place, and thereby allowing other people to make copies of it?
Such a system makes much more sense to me as it would unboubtedly be far cheaper to implement than somehow trying to get people through the process of voting on a computer. It's more inclusive, too, because it's a simple matter of listening to a prompt and pressing a button, so even the densest of the populace are likely to be able to handle it - I'm sure there's people who don't vote because they're too embarrassed to admit they can't read the ballot paper (I could make a wisecrack about American literacy rates here, but I won't). They even set up the trial here so that you could choose to hear instructions in minority languages such as Urdu and Punjabi.
Seems like a far better solution to me.
Think about it, it solves all the problems, doesn't it? Sometimes the best approach isn't always the most modern. You lot can't see the wood for the trees, methinks.