Kazaa Lobbyist Suggests Flat-Fee Plan
from the no-surprise-there dept
dsg writes in with a link to the story about the "Distributed Computing Industry Association" - which is really just the folks behind Kazaa - suggesting that a solution to the file sharing issue would be to just require all users to pay a monthly flat rate to use the systems. They suggest $5/month and say this would generate $200 million for the industry per month. While it does raise a lot of issues (who figures out who gets paid how much, for instance), I'm not totally against this idea. If it really opens up a true peer-to-peer file sharing system, rather than one of these annoying copy-restricted download stores - then it actually sounds good. A lot of people would be willing to pay the $5/month just to avoid the risk of getting sued and it would still allow all of the real benefits of peer-to-peer distribution. However, as is suggested in the article, the RIAA won't go for such a plan until it's way too late for it to make a difference.
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Monetizing P2P
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What you might see evolve out of this is the individual studio's setting up their own file sharing networks so that you can subscribe to the artists they manage for a small flat fee ,,,, still without down loads and Ripping.
At which point we're pretty much back to where we were, just a different medium.
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...in other news:
I mean, jesus, I don't know which is the stupider idea: trying to extract money from users sharing illegitimate content or believing that the recording industry will "opt-in" when/if KAZAA turns their first dime.
What planet do these fscks live on? ...cause I want to move there so I can be high all the time too.
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