Comments on: Chicago cops tell the RIAA — then the DA http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17033 p2pnet.net - reader powered Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:20:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Henry Emrich http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17033#comment-781486 Henry Emrich Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:34:15 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17033#comment-781486 Hmm: Y'know how the RIAA/MPAA could actually USE this type of thing? How about something similar to what the Electronic Freedom Foundation has been proposing in regard to p2p file-sharing? The "content companies" could sell a reasonably priced "license" of some kind -- maybe 200 bucks a year, I dunno, to anybody who wanted to make copies for commercial purposes, selling them basically. Then they wouldn't have to have the vast infrastructure of production plants/shipping, warehousing etc, Wal-mart wouldn't be able to badger them into selling so-called "clean" versions of works which Walmart doesn't believe are "family friendly", and everybody would win. Another "cottage industry" for people who want to take the time to make physical copies, and yet another way to streamline ther own operations. PLUS -- and this seems to me the biggest "selling point" of the whole deal -- no wasting an already-overstressed police force/court system on frivolous bullshit just to make multinational corporate megaliths a smidgin more profits. Don't get me wrong, I like "profits" just fine, but "profits" squeezed by way of monkeywrenching the "public domain", destroying the best communications technology humanity has ever had, strangling innovation, and nanny-stating us into oblivion is just unacceptable by any rational standard. Hmm:

Y’know how the RIAA/MPAA could actually USE this type of thing? How about something similar to what the Electronic Freedom Foundation has been proposing in regard to p2p file-sharing? The “content companies” could sell a reasonably priced “license” of some kind — maybe 200 bucks a year, I dunno, to anybody who wanted to make copies for commercial purposes, selling them basically.

Then they wouldn’t have to have the vast infrastructure of production plants/shipping, warehousing etc, Wal-mart wouldn’t be able to badger them into selling so-called “clean” versions of works which Walmart doesn’t believe are “family friendly”, and everybody would win.

Another “cottage industry” for people who want to take the time to make physical copies, and yet another way to streamline ther own operations. PLUS — and this seems to me the biggest “selling point” of the whole deal — no wasting an already-overstressed police force/court system on frivolous bullshit just to make multinational corporate megaliths a smidgin more profits.

Don’t get me wrong, I like “profits” just fine, but “profits” squeezed by way of monkeywrenching the “public domain”, destroying the best communications technology humanity has ever had, strangling innovation, and nanny-stating us into oblivion is just unacceptable by any rational standard.

]]> By: Jon http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17033#comment-781482 Jon Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:30:18 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17033#comment-781482 ^^ I just looked. There's a post with one of the eNews Park Forest stories from a couple of days ago. This is a completely different story with a completely different approach and a completely different source. Slow news day for you? ;) Cheers! ^^ I just looked. There’s a post with one of the eNews Park Forest stories from a couple of days ago.

This is a completely different story with a completely different approach and a completely different source.

Slow news day for you? ;)

Cheers!

]]> By: RJ http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17033#comment-781466 RJ Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:12:27 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17033#comment-781466 This was on torrentfreak last week, wasn't it? slow news day... This was on torrentfreak last week, wasn’t it?

slow news day…

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17033#comment-781426 Reader's Write Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:46:10 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17033#comment-781426 "Officer DeVries spoke to Harvey again who allegedly told police that he owns a computer repair business, and purchases illegally copied DVDs and CDs from a friend and gives them to his customers as a sort of perk for hiring him to repair their computers." Why did he say that? The right answer was these are my DVDs and CDs that I backup up to keep in the car so that the original are not damaged. If They have the nerve to ask him to provide the originals the answer is I lended all my original to a relative abroad foir now and He will return them to me in few month probably. What can be say against that? Hum? By the way this is exactly what I am doing with the CD/DVD I bought when I was not boycotting becauser now I buy no DVD and I buy CD from a very selective of Indiy labels that check OK on the RIAA and BPI radar web sites EXCUSIVELY! BPI RADAR: http://www.bpiradar.com/ RIAA RADAR: http://www.riaaradar.com/ “Officer DeVries spoke to Harvey again who allegedly told police that he owns a computer repair business, and purchases illegally copied DVDs and CDs from a friend and gives them to his customers as a sort of perk for hiring him to repair their computers.”

Why did he say that?

The right answer was these are my DVDs and CDs that I backup up to keep in the car so that the original are not damaged. If They have the nerve to ask him to provide the originals the answer is I lended all my original to a relative abroad foir now and He will return them to me in few month probably.

What can be say against that? Hum?

By the way this is exactly what I am doing with the CD/DVD I bought when I was not boycotting becauser now I buy no DVD and I buy CD from a very selective of Indiy labels that check OK on the RIAA and BPI radar web sites EXCUSIVELY!

BPI RADAR: http://www.bpiradar.com/
RIAA RADAR: http://www.riaaradar.com/

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