Come on, since you carry yourself like someone who seems to know everything there is to know about the recording industry, surely you can respond to CLT's request for something (anything) that proves the label system is good for artists.
I mean, the evil pirate-supporter Masnick has already linked to a video from an industry lawyer showing how artists are being conned by the labels. Now it's your turn to put the nerds, dorks and geeks in their place and show them how wrong we are. A bell curve showing how much the artists make from their recordings would be ideal, thanks.
People are listening to more music and the overall music industry is thriving. That sounds like good business for both the artists and the public. Not to mention that file-sharing is legal in Spain.
Recording industry middlemen embezzling the artists' money is theft -- real theft that does not benefit the artists in any way. And fraud is certainly not legal in Spain.
The original article clearly says "Acusan a directivos de la Sociedad de Autores de apropiarse U$S 550 millones." That obviously says the directors are accused of appropriating $550 million.
It then goes on to say they are believed to have defrauded up to $550 million. It doesn't say they defrauded $20 from a $550 million pot like you claim.
Not just the easiest, they are also by far the biggest.
In Europe you will be hard pressed to find people who don't use Visa or Mastercard (they are a duopoly at best), and Paypal is the only major online payment processor that I know of that doesn't require a US bank account.
Basically, if your company is cut off by those three organisations, especially if you are an online company, you're pretty much screwed.
The fault lies with us and our guvs, for not having open banking standards and for not inviting more home-brewed competition into the mix...
That's not the purpose of copyright, it's a statement of how it tries to achieve its purpose. Copyright's purpose is to incentivise artistic publication for the benefit of the public. If at any point copyright expansion starts encroaching the rights of private individuals, then copyright needs to give. End of story.
What terrifies you and the IFPI is that Spain's approach to non-commercial copying may actually be working. If Spanish artists can create and continue to embrace new business models, while they still make money without slaving away under greedy middlemen, the idea will eventually catch on!
Just imagine a world where copyright lawyers and lobbyists are no longer needed and lose their jobs! Isn't it neat? ;P
I don't know, but if they aren't then why do they still do it in such numbers and why are they not backing the IFPI's lobby for more copyright laws?
"More than they do in a nation with less piracy?"
Such a comparison is impossible to make without making a lot of vacuous guesses in the process. I'll just leave it to the lobbyists.
Also, note that your question is completely irrelevant. The purpose of copyright is to incenivise publication for the public's benefit. Copyright is NOT a race about which country can make special laws to give away more money and privileges!
"This 'investment', I assume only count major labels...?"
Precisely. If the IFPI isn't blatantly lying, and since they are a lobbying organisation they probably are, that's the only data they would have to share.
Notice, however, that Spain is possibly the top contributor of CC-licensed music to sites like Jamendo (we're talking thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Spanish bands).
It's not that there's no music coming out of Spain, it's just that a lot of Spanish bands have decided to drop the copyright industry and adapt. Of course they wouldn't go on the IFPI's Top50, but if they can still reach an audience outside the IFPI's reach, why shouldn't they?
Yeah, citations are for losers. And since I'm one of those losers, I'll still ask you for citations when you pull "facts" out of your asses.
And if you link me to a report published by the SGAE or their close circle of friends, I may link you back to this article that shows exactly how corrupt and full of shit they are and ask for a more impartial source.
Citations are the foundation of academia, believe it or not. No citations in your work will cost you your reputation, bad citations will probably cost you your job. I only wish lawyers had to play by those rules.
Those who really want anonymity will still have anonymity. The only ones who will lose their anonymity are the average technologically-oblivious citizens, who as always won't even know what's going on.
IMO, it will be an ID theft nightmare, as there'll be user IDs being traded on the black market from day one. Not to mention that encrypted proxies will still completely defeat these measures, making them completely useless against organized groups and individuals.
Really, this is as pointless as it is retarded and I can assure you it will never catch a single terrorist.
CD drives have digital and analog outputs (that 4-pin wire that connects directly from your CD drive to your sound card). If he's using the analog connector I would guess it's normal that he gets some noise that screws up the hashes.
It's also likely that many people don't use that wire, so they probably get perfect digital output (including better error checking) and identical hashes.
I also don't believe there's any information in the standard mp3 headers (like date information or similar) to identify one copy from another. The additional metadata that may be tagged at the end is typically downloaded automatically from online servers, so it's again normal that independently made copies could have identical tags.
I haven't tested these things out, so I may be wrong, but my guesses are no better than that guy's single data point.
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I mean, the evil pirate-supporter Masnick has already linked to a video from an industry lawyer showing how artists are being conned by the labels. Now it's your turn to put the nerds, dorks and geeks in their place and show them how wrong we are. A bell curve showing how much the artists make from their recordings would be ideal, thanks.
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Recording industry middlemen embezzling the artists' money is theft -- real theft that does not benefit the artists in any way. And fraud is certainly not legal in Spain.
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It then goes on to say they are believed to have defrauded up to $550 million. It doesn't say they defrauded $20 from a $550 million pot like you claim.
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In Europe you will be hard pressed to find people who don't use Visa or Mastercard (they are a duopoly at best), and Paypal is the only major online payment processor that I know of that doesn't require a US bank account.
Basically, if your company is cut off by those three organisations, especially if you are an online company, you're pretty much screwed.
The fault lies with us and our guvs, for not having open banking standards and for not inviting more home-brewed competition into the mix...
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What terrifies you and the IFPI is that Spain's approach to non-commercial copying may actually be working. If Spanish artists can create and continue to embrace new business models, while they still make money without slaving away under greedy middlemen, the idea will eventually catch on!
Just imagine a world where copyright lawyers and lobbyists are no longer needed and lose their jobs! Isn't it neat? ;P
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I don't know, but if they aren't then why do they still do it in such numbers and why are they not backing the IFPI's lobby for more copyright laws?
"More than they do in a nation with less piracy?"
Such a comparison is impossible to make without making a lot of vacuous guesses in the process. I'll just leave it to the lobbyists.
Also, note that your question is completely irrelevant. The purpose of copyright is to incenivise publication for the public's benefit. Copyright is NOT a race about which country can make special laws to give away more money and privileges!
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Precisely. If the IFPI isn't blatantly lying, and since they are a lobbying organisation they probably are, that's the only data they would have to share.
Notice, however, that Spain is possibly the top contributor of CC-licensed music to sites like Jamendo (we're talking thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Spanish bands).
It's not that there's no music coming out of Spain, it's just that a lot of Spanish bands have decided to drop the copyright industry and adapt. Of course they wouldn't go on the IFPI's Top50, but if they can still reach an audience outside the IFPI's reach, why shouldn't they?
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And if you link me to a report published by the SGAE or their close circle of friends, I may link you back to this article that shows exactly how corrupt and full of shit they are and ask for a more impartial source.
Citations are the foundation of academia, believe it or not. No citations in your work will cost you your reputation, bad citations will probably cost you your job. I only wish lawyers had to play by those rules.
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Plus, if it's legal in Spain, you don't get to call it 'piracy'.
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IMO, it will be an ID theft nightmare, as there'll be user IDs being traded on the black market from day one. Not to mention that encrypted proxies will still completely defeat these measures, making them completely useless against organized groups and individuals.
Really, this is as pointless as it is retarded and I can assure you it will never catch a single terrorist.
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It's also likely that many people don't use that wire, so they probably get perfect digital output (including better error checking) and identical hashes.
I also don't believe there's any information in the standard mp3 headers (like date information or similar) to identify one copy from another. The additional metadata that may be tagged at the end is typically downloaded automatically from online servers, so it's again normal that independently made copies could have identical tags.
I haven't tested these things out, so I may be wrong, but my guesses are no better than that guy's single data point.
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