Whoa, careful there! With the RIAA's understanding of how distributed systems work, they might think this is a reasonable and appropriate thing to have happen.
Yup, they're trying to figure out how to get the entire industry back inside a walled garden so it can be controlled from a central location.
It really makes me wonder if music execs understand that music existed before there was an industry and that there will be music long after the current industry as we know it is gone.
This is silly. Pirates would obviously host their sites on .pirate domains, not .music or .movie tlds. That is, of course, if they can get their official accreditation from the Super Pirate Association of America (SPAA) or one of it's worldwide analogs that control the International Pirate Industry (IPI).
I miss-read that title as saying:
"MPAA Exec: We Can Only Make Content That People Want"
at first and thought for a few seconds that it was an oddly prescient analysis and admission of the actual control consumers have over media and art. If people don't want it, companies can't make money from it (and shouldn't be producing it).
Of course that fantasy vanished as I read a little more of the article. Not only do they not understand it's the consumers who dictate the market, they think that they're the sole supplier. As is evidenced by the stream of crappy content and delivery that dominates over more worthy, but less "profitable" ventures.
Yup, the only reason I can conceive of needing a qr code link to a mail-order physical dvd is to keep me from buying it on Amazon. I already have an Amazon account, app, and I trust them with my information.
Okay, so Google's business is giving people what they're looking for. It still doesn't explain why Google hasn't made people look for what the MPAA is selling to people. You know with their spiders or their cloud tagging or the web 2 point oh. Cyber-wiki?
Yes, please educate consumers about Copyright. Tell them that Copyright is fundamentally about withholding a work from Public ownership for a limited time. Tell them about how many works have been stolen from the Public through retroactive modifications to the original Copyright agreement.
Tell them how many works are slated to skirt Public ownership for decades to come based on unilateral back-room deals that expand Copyright duration and penalty with virtually no concern for the rights of the Public.
Get consumers good and pissed-off about how much money big labels have made by stealing from the Public and scamming contracted artists. Then point them in the direction of the morons who have the audacity to publicly gripe to their bought-and-paid-for Congressperson because they are slowly realizing that the world doesn't actually need gate-keeping middlemen any more.
All right. You could, uh, start out with a little 1, a 2, a 1-2-3, a 3, a 5, a 4, a 3-2, 2, a 2-4-6, 2-4-6, 4, 2, 2, 4-7, 5-7, 6-7, 7... 7... 7... 7 7 7 7 7 7... seven.
This draws parallels in my mind to the suits Monsanto brings against farmers who are not actively trying to grow seeds protected by their intellectual property rights. The seeds are just everywhere and in fact contaminate organic un-GMO production with their unwanted presence.
Some farmers just lost a preemptive suit against Monsanto, trying to have this type of accidental "infringement" declared invalid.
In a world where everything around us is Copyrighted, Patented and "owned", it will be increasingly impossible to function without incidental infringement.
Also writing down a book's Dewey Decimal number counts as copying the entire book so any Luddite universities out there that don't allow the use of computers are still culpable if they grant their students access to pen and paper.
Copyright: Increasing ease of access to educational information since 1662.
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Re: BLDs
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Re: step one
It really makes me wonder if music execs understand that music existed before there was an industry and that there will be music long after the current industry as we know it is gone.
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What now?
Uh-oh, I may have said too much...
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Re: Well, damn.
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true statements only please
Next on my list: "up to" advertising.
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A brief flash of hope...
"MPAA Exec: We Can Only Make Content That People Want"
at first and thought for a few seconds that it was an oddly prescient analysis and admission of the actual control consumers have over media and art. If people don't want it, companies can't make money from it (and shouldn't be producing it).
Of course that fantasy vanished as I read a little more of the article. Not only do they not understand it's the consumers who dictate the market, they think that they're the sole supplier. As is evidenced by the stream of crappy content and delivery that dominates over more worthy, but less "profitable" ventures.
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Re: Re: Re: That's how search engines already work
The reason these discussions are fruitless is gatekeepers don't understand that they don't get to control what people want any more.
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Re: That's how search engines already work
Come on nerds, I'm meeting you half way!
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Re:
Tell them how many works are slated to skirt Public ownership for decades to come based on unilateral back-room deals that expand Copyright duration and penalty with virtually no concern for the rights of the Public.
Get consumers good and pissed-off about how much money big labels have made by stealing from the Public and scamming contracted artists. Then point them in the direction of the morons who have the audacity to publicly gripe to their bought-and-paid-for Congressperson because they are slowly realizing that the world doesn't actually need gate-keeping middlemen any more.
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Re: Next!
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Nothing is OWED
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Agro-Patent Likeness
Some farmers just lost a preemptive suit against Monsanto, trying to have this type of accidental "infringement" declared invalid.
In a world where everything around us is Copyrighted, Patented and "owned", it will be increasingly impossible to function without incidental infringement.
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Re: Enemy =
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Serving the populace...
Copyright: Increasing ease of access to educational information since 1662.
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