Hollywood Continues Its Worldwide Push To Have ISPs Block Sites Like Pirate Bay
from the why-innovate-when-we-can-legislate! dept
It would appear that the IFPI is following in the footsteps of the US entertainment industry in pushing government around the world to force ISPs to block access to sites and content that the entertainment industry wishes weren't available online. This is the latest in an ongoing effort for the entertainment industry to pretend that the internet needs to conform to the way it wants the world to act, rather than conforming to the way the internet actually works. The push would include requirements such as having ISPs set up massive filters, similar to China's "Great Firewall," to block sites like the Pirate Bay (despite the non-infringing uses of such sites) and also to block any downloads of certain digital audio and video tracks as recorded by a digital fingerprint. The fact that the IFPI is pushing for this is no surprise, given the RIAA/MPAA's similar push within the US, as well as recent efforts in both France and the UK to implement such policies.There are many, many reasons why such policies aren't just bad, but dangerous to innovation. As we're already seeing elsewhere, the entertainment industry now seems to think that any new innovation that makes it easier to distribute, copy or promote content now needs to get approval from the industry (while also paying a royalty fee). If Hollywood had its way, things like the VCR and the iPod wouldn't even exist -- despite the fact that both devices have helped to provide new life to the entertainment industry. The same will be true of various internet services -- but not if Hollywood succeeds in getting them blocked completely. It's amazing how many times Hollywood will need to relearn this lesson. Every time some new technology comes along, Hollywood freaks out that it might need to adapt -- and yet, time and time again, that new technology has only helped to reinvigorate the industry. Yet, by spreading FUD all over the place, the entertainment industry has become much better at bending politicians' ears to the point that those politicians incorrectly believe that the industry is doomed if it actually needed to adapt and change its business model, despite plenty of historical and economic evidence that those adaptations will come if the market is left alone to innovate.
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Legislation leads to innovation!
Thanks, **AA, for encouraging better methods of piracy!
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Re: Legislation leads to innovation!
Instead it skew researches in the area of harder to detect file sharing and security related area.
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Music Industry
If the **AA could have the same view, the same acceptance, TechDirt would have half of the articles it does now.
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Innovation is a two prong approach...
How long do they truly believe that physical media will be the only legitimate distribution channel?
Consider our friends at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts bought Regal Entertainment, and also spun off National Cinemedia. Consider the Book about KKR titled "Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco"
Anyways, NCM is in a great position! National Cinemedia has HD Projectors in a majority of the country's theaters, but are only used to provide ads before the old 35mm runs through the antique projector... Why not use their platform to distribute the finished product?
Everything is going Digital. Consider George Lucas filming the last StarWars episodes on Sony HDW-F900H.
http://www.sony.co.uk/biz/view/ShowContent.action?site=biz_en_GB&contentId=1167924 779333
If Los Angeles fails to embrace the platform, I imagine folks in the Bay Area will... Can you imagine what it will be like when user-created content starts utilizing NCM's platform for content distribution?
I can only hope the folks at Google folks don't read this, or a swift acquisition may be in the works.
http://www.ncm.com/
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If an industry establishes conrol of these things then ther are clearly peole who benefit : those people at the top of the industry profit greatly regardless of whether the industry ultimatley fails and os replaced by a "different" industry. If you think abot who will control any new industry it's pretty clear it will be the same people who "ruined" the old one, whith a couple of new innovatros thrown into the mix.
When the "new" industry is established techdirt will proclaim this is an example of the "health" of the American system where old stagnant players are replaced wit new more vigerous ones, however the reality is simply that the public and the share holders get screwed for the benefit of the insiders - that's the American way.
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How can you keep misspelling words and continue to use incorrect grammer?
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How can you keep misspelling words and continue to use incorrect grammer?
You must be a first generation American. Welcome to our country!
Just so you know, Americans have been known for challenging the rules. It happens every generation. Have you heard of the Revolutionary War? Civil War? The Sixties?
If your here to prescribe to us a process of this "Grammar" you speak of, I say thanks. We don't need it. Chances are your here on a visa or something.
Keep your Queens English back in your own country (India) and let us run the country as we see fit.
Warmest Regards,
William Johnson III
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How can you keep writing the same story and keep on always missunderstanding ?
If an industry establishes conrol of these things then ther are clearly peole who benefit : those people at the top of the industry profit greatly regardless of whether the industry ultimatley fails and os replaced by a "different" industry. If you think abot who will control any new industry it's pretty clear it will be the same people who "ruined" the old one, whith a couple of new innovatros thrown into the mix.
When the "new" industry is established techdirt will proclaim this is an example of the "health" of the American system where old stagnant players are replaced wit new more vigerous ones, however the reality is simply that the public and the share holders get screwed for the benefit of the insiders - that's the American way.
I read your first two sentences and was genuinely excited to hear what you had to say, regardless of my own opinions on the subject. But... then... it never made any sense, or had any point for that matter.
And from what little sense you did make; the issue isn't WHO makes the money. CEO's salaries are hard to justify morally but they do incur the most responsibility of any other single employee in the corporation so they are always going to make the most money whether it is excessive or not.
The POINT is that the industry is trying to use copyright laws as a tool to persecute the public in ways that copyright laws were never intended to enable.
Thanks though, I'll copy you to my gallery of clown-posts!
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Consider this
CD media is used for legal and illegal content.
DVD media is used for legal and illegal content.
Internet is used for legal and illegal content.
Maybe all those manufacturers should also filter their clients.
Sounds stupid doesn't it.... yet their trying ...
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It seem that their attitude is irreversible and their death is inevitable.
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Why bother?
You also risk alienating people when they don't have the machine with the code, like iTunes and the iPod.
And you'll never stop P2P, without watching every single bit, byte, and baud that goes through any machine, anywhere. Or you can kill all the coders. Your choice.
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Time to end copyright
Drastic? Yes, but some problems need drastic solutions, and I think this is one that does.
Will it hurt some people or corporations? Maybe, but probably not as much as you might imagine, and possibly it would benefit many who fear it because it will force them to stop wasting time and energy on making their products less desirable to their customers.
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coppyright and patents
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We _DO_ need copyright...
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Lessons That Should Have Been Learned From the VCR
However, the **AA have a much tighter stranglehold on distributors than they did then, and all the third party offerings have been so overpriced and so saddled with DRM that they have no value to consumers. If the industry associations had any brains, they would follow their past pattern to success. That is, let a bunch of third-party companies come in to the space and take all the risk of finding a business model that works, then follow the lead(s) of the successful one(s).
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New business model
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