Seeing is believing
p2pnet.net News:- The writing really is on the wall for the entertainment industry, of which Big Music is but a component.
Every day the major labels and their hired political supporters spew out reams of misinformation and terabytes of self-serving nonsense about p2p file sharing.
But their days are numbered as the spotlights they set burning focus more and more on them instead of on their perceived enemies – the world-wide file sharing community.
In the meanwhile, there are plenty of ideas on how to make the Internet p2p phenomenon work for listeners, viewers, artists and industry.
Remember the EFF’s Let the Music Play white paper, for example?
Well, Ren Bucholz has sketched out – literally – how a voluntary collective p2p license might work.
“I left out the bugs, snags and roadblocks in order to first illustrate the concept,” he says. “However, the source files are available [PDF, OmniGraffle, Visio or PNG] under a CC license if you’d like to add those features yourself.”
Ren, who lives in San Francisco with his fiancee, Laura, works for the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation).
“My business cards say ‘Activist,’ which means that I take our techie, legal issues and pitch them to the public,” he says. “It’s a lot of fun, but the best part is that I get to work with amazing people (some of whom have blogs).”
Check it out here.
