Comments on: Cary Sherman RIAA rant: II http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10422 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10422/comment-page-1#comment-130371 Reader's Write Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:46:44 +0000 #comment-130371 ... have been a contender ..... "Those such as the Zune will never make it in the marketplace for the same reason the online sites aren't making it. " It has one absolutely KILLER feature the IPods and others don't have .... The ability to transfer tunes wirelessly between units. This COULD have been the reason to switch, but, the cartels made sure that this would be a useless feature. No matter what you transfer to a friends zune, It will be DRM wrapped, ( no choice in the matter ) and EXPIRE after a couple of days, off the recievers Zune. It doesn't matter if it's free, Creative Commons, or the Author WANTS it to be shared. No choice. Ultimately, the Zunes ultra restrictive DRM will protect it from being purchased :) … have been a contender …..

“Those such as the Zune will never make it in the marketplace for the same reason the online sites aren’t making it. ”

It has one absolutely KILLER feature the IPods and others don’t
have ….

The ability to transfer tunes wirelessly between units.

This COULD have been the reason to switch, but, the cartels
made sure that this would be a useless feature.

No matter what you transfer to a friends zune, It will be DRM
wrapped, ( no choice in the matter ) and EXPIRE after a couple of
days, off the recievers Zune.

It doesn’t matter if it’s free, Creative Commons, or the Author
WANTS it to be shared.

No choice.

Ultimately, the Zunes ultra restrictive DRM will protect it from
being purchased :)

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10422/comment-page-1#comment-130347 Reader's Write Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:11:50 +0000 #comment-130347 just for laughs RIAA president Cary Sherman is no so bad. After all he could go for jailing these but he is benevolent and is sparing them: - Kids with radios at the beach. These are obvious infringers. The beach is a public place and the sound of songs are plain public performances. If RIAA went after the kids with radios, peace will return to the beach. - Funeral parlors with chappels with organs. Since funeral parlors are for profit (really big), their chappels are not exempt from requiring music public performance licenses as are churches. - Taxi drivers. Many taxis have radios that play music for the customers. Its all ilegal. With music's distraction, you can drive the customer five times around the block and they will not notice. - The armed forces. There are music devices turned on all the time at the battrracks, ships, offices, producing free music for the boys in uniform. Its illegal. Music really reduces the stress. - Congress. Each office here has devices such as radios, cd players, television which ocassionally provide free music to legislators and their staff. Just to kill the boredom of doing nothing. - Cruise ships. I know these have no performance licenses for the music they play onboard because they have not yet figured out who will give them a license that is valid in all the countries they dck at, or if they need a license for music played on international waters. Still, RIAA could attack these if the wanted, as no legal logic is required to scare victims into paying. Note: If you are wondering if I have RIAA's function of getting money for the artists (really?) and the record companies confused with the collectives function of getting money for the songwriters (really?) and the music publishers, please don't worry. RIAA and the collectives are more confused than me on the matter. rv just for laughs

RIAA president Cary Sherman is no so bad. After all he could go for jailing these but he is benevolent and is sparing them:

- Kids with radios at the beach. These are obvious infringers. The beach is a public place and the sound of songs are plain public performances. If RIAA went after the kids with radios, peace will return to the beach.

- Funeral parlors with chappels with organs. Since funeral parlors are for profit (really big), their chappels are not exempt from requiring music public performance licenses as are churches.

- Taxi drivers. Many taxis have radios that play music for the customers. Its all ilegal. With music’s distraction, you can drive the customer five times around the block and they will not notice.

- The armed forces. There are music devices turned on all the time at the battrracks, ships, offices, producing free music for the boys in uniform. Its illegal. Music really reduces the stress.

- Congress. Each office here has devices such as radios, cd players, television which ocassionally provide free music to legislators and their staff. Just to kill the boredom of doing nothing.

- Cruise ships. I know these have no performance licenses for the music they play onboard because they have not yet figured out who will give them a license that is valid in all the countries they dck at, or if they need a license for music played on international waters. Still, RIAA could attack these if the wanted, as no legal logic is required to scare victims into paying.

Note: If you are wondering if I have RIAA’s function of getting money for the artists (really?) and the record companies confused with the collectives function of getting money for the songwriters (really?) and the music publishers, please don’t worry. RIAA and the collectives are more confused than me on the matter.

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