Re: [microsound] let the music play

["jan.larsson" <jlarsson@xxxxxxxxx>]

a pretty uninteresting proposal aimed at satisfying the big four RIAA 
members and protecting the companies owning the networks. EFF is 
offering the big four record companies 3 billion dollars in exchange 
for not suing american "file sharers".

only artists that sell a lot of downloads in a short time will get any 
money ot of it. i.e. commercial teenage music. any other artist (say 
classical) selling the same amount of downloads but over 30 years will 
not show up on the lists and will receive nothing.

as described it is also wide open to payola-type corruption. the 
accounting system EFF propose is the same as used by american radio.

non-american artists will, of course, receive nothing. this proposal is 
based on the idea that only americans use the internet, use file 
sharing services and that they are only sharing american music. EFF is 
as out of touch with the real world as the old record companies used to 
be.

the EU (which later this year will become by far the worlds largest 
internal market if we measure number of consumers with middle-class 
income) can of course setup a comparable system but still this would 
leave any artist or record company outside the geopolitically large 
markets without any possibility of ever being compensated.

the proposal also fail to collect from the companies that are making 
the profits from "file sharing" and even has the power to stop it if 
they so whish.  the end users are already paying for using "file 
sharing".

yet EFF for some reason refuse to accept this and instead propose the 
internet users are to pay even more. and the money collected in this 
way is offered the big 4 record companies so they wont sue american 
users and threat those making the real profits from "file sharing" and 
the artists -  i.e. the network owners.

looks to me like those who control the EFF have economical interests in 
networks/ISP:s.




2004-02-28 kl. 03.52 skrev Kim Cascone:

> http://www.eff.org/share/collective_lic_wp.php
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> http://www.eff.org/share/collective_lic_wp.pdf
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