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Seriously, if we follow the course we're headed with right now, we might as well dismantle the internet and return to smoke signals.. If a bunch of lobbyists and lawyers can force their mindset through bills passed in foreign countries (and "democratic" such), then something's really f*d up (yes even more than previously believed).
Our current Prime Minister said in one of his campaign speeches "We don't want to criminalize an entire generation", and a few years later with him in office, our privacy has been sold for a few extra yachts and penthouses.
The debate is betweem those who think internet is off limits to copyright laws and those who think that filesharing copyrighted material is a crime. I personally agree to some degree with the latter, with an important difference. Sure if an artist has produced an intellectual piece of work then he/she has the right to be rewarded for it everytime someone uses their work. So far so good. From the LP, Audio Tape, CD, (mini-disc) to the mp3 we certainly have come a long way. A person no longer has to go all the way to a "record store" (dunno why they're still called that...) and pick up an overpriced (yes they are, especially if the record company eats the bigger share of the cake!) album in a cd/dvd format. Today we have an advancement known as le internet (woow..). Which enables the user to d-o-w-n-l-o-a-d (wiki this "bombastic" word if you're not familiar with it) files from the internet, such as audio, video et.c. Now since the entire music industry is built around the (less green!) circular plastic disc with a hole in the middle, the new change has come as somewhat of a shock to them.
It would be wrong not to mention "pioneers" (not rocket science tbh...) as iTunes or Spotify (and a few other small fish) who do take advantage of this "new" convenient/cheaper/greener/smarter technology.
The problem is, they are basically alone in this market. And from the wikipedia economics I know, if a market only has one or two major players. They have something called m-o-n-o-p-o-l-y, which let's them set basically any (within reasonable bounds ofc.) prices. And despite the negative connotation to the word, they have achieved monopoly thanks to the old farts sitting at those titanious record companies who haven't felt the new tide of change yet. Once they realize (and not Amazon-like "oh and we have a few songs you can download (wooow..) from our site (cool huh?! :)" ) this is the way to spin, iTunes will have something called c-o-m-p-e-t-i-t-i-o-n. Which in turn will force them to lower their (now actually increasing .. ) prices. And this legal method will suddenly be a more realistic option. No need for these expensive witch hunts any longer. Use those funds into kicking in the extra brain power (clearly) needed to launch your own iTunes-like services.
With the new Ipred law in Sweden, the "anti-piracy buraeu" celebrated a 40% drop in internet activity the day after the law was set in motion. I'd like to ask them: "before you pop those champagne bottles, check how many percentage your record/dvd sales went up with?" I smell boycott in ze air!
I apologize for the "whine" lately, I hereby swear an oath to return more random and nonsensical from next week! So everyone, well its really only one person from Colorado that seems to read this smudge, stay safe and lock your ips!
Jya na~
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| | Posted 4/16/2009 5:18 PM - 2 Views - 0 eProps - 0 comments
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