Comments on: Music for the Masses http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10152 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:41:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10152#comment-129133 Reader's Write Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:17:58 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10152#comment-129133 You can read a transcript of the press conference that took place last tuesday at http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3pressconference.htm You can read a transcript of the press conference that took place last tuesday at http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3pressconference.htm

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10152#comment-129118 Reader's Write Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:38:46 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10152#comment-129118 The acronym organizations are playing loose with the facts as always. There is much that they are not saying. Just like no p2p could get licensed by other than total capitulation into the cartels' way, neither can allofmp3 get licensed. You can be sure that part isn't being said. Nor are those whinning about not being paid telling you of the refusal to accept the money from the ROMS. Being paid isn't the real issue; it is the excuse to persue the closing of the sales site that doesn't kowtoe to the cartels demands. Accepting the money would mean acknowledgement of the business as a legal entity. Because total control is what is desired, they aren't going to accept payment. Instead they will use WIPO as the tool to force the Russian government to close it for them with the WTO membership as the club to encourage the action. At times I am not to sure that the WTO membership is really a bargain to begin with. It comes with a price and that price is steep in many ways. Some of the third world counties have found that out. The BSAs continual moaning and groaning about Africa being a hot bed of piracy is one good example. In a place where the cost of one software is equal to months of income and where life is cheap and often comes to a sudden end, they are more concerned with who is paying than they are the real life costs in the real world. It's the old battle of the havenots vs the haves. Were I in that position, I would definately choose food and housing over software any day of the week. Take any one of those organizations, snatch out the CEO and place him in those conditions and I think he'll understand just where the importance is readily and will make the same choices. What good is software without a place to use it or a body to live in? The acronym organizations are playing loose with the facts as always. There is much that they are not saying. Just like no p2p could get licensed by other than total capitulation into the cartels’ way, neither can allofmp3 get licensed. You can be sure that part isn’t being said.

Nor are those whinning about not being paid telling you of the refusal to accept the money from the ROMS. Being paid isn’t the real issue; it is the excuse to persue the closing of the sales site that doesn’t kowtoe to the cartels demands.

Accepting the money would mean acknowledgement of the business as a legal entity. Because total control is what is desired, they aren’t going to accept payment. Instead they will use WIPO as the tool to force the Russian government to close it for them with the WTO membership as the club to encourage the action. At times I am not to sure that the WTO membership is really a bargain to begin with. It comes with a price and that price is steep in many ways. Some of the third world counties have found that out.

The BSAs continual moaning and groaning about Africa being a hot bed of piracy is one good example. In a place where the cost of one software is equal to months of income and where life is cheap and often comes to a sudden end, they are more concerned with who is paying than they are the real life costs in the real world. It’s the old battle of the havenots vs the haves. Were I in that position, I would definately choose food and housing over software any day of the week. Take any one of those organizations, snatch out the CEO and place him in those conditions and I think he’ll understand just where the importance is readily and will make the same choices. What good is software without a place to use it or a body to live in?

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10152#comment-129115 Reader's Write Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:06:35 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10152#comment-129115 So AllofMP3.com, "remunerates artists by paying 15 percent of its revenue to a collecting agency, the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society, or ROMS by its initials in Russian," the story has Vadim Mamotin, director general of the site’s parent company, Mediaservices, saying, "by telephone with the International Herald Tribune" and then during an online chat with journalists. But then the Cartels refuse to register with ROMS so none of the money gets paid out. So where does it go? So AllofMP3.com, “remunerates artists by paying 15 percent of its revenue to a collecting agency, the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society, or ROMS by its initials in Russian,” the story has Vadim Mamotin, director general of the site’s parent company, Mediaservices, saying, “by telephone with the International Herald Tribune” and then during an online chat with journalists.

But then the Cartels refuse to register with ROMS so none of the money gets paid out.

So where does it go?

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