BMG gets into p2p
p2p news / p2pnet: The members of the Organized Music corporate cartel figure if they stick `p2p` in the product title, that`ll be enough to get uninitiated punters punting.
Bertelsmann AG [BMG], the company that owned the original Napster, is preparing to launch a legal peer-to-peer download service in Germany for music and movies, says BetaNews.
Of course, as the world knows, BMG is far from being the original owner of Napster. That distinctions falls to Shawn Fanning who`s now working for the cartels via his Snocap DRM and filter which uses Royal Philips Electronics audio `fingerprinting` technology to identify and block transmission of digital-video files.
Called GNAB, the service will debut first in the company’s home country and then expand to others throughout 2006, says the story, quoting the Associated Press.
Most of the service is complete, and could offer access to 1 million songs at launch, says AP, going on, Bertelsmann says the premise behind the P2P-like structure of the service is to prevent overloading of the servers.
Bertelsmann bought Napster in 2000 after it had been stomped in an RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) onslaught, eventually selling it to Napster nee Roxio, which has been trying, and failing, to make a go of it ever since.
GNAB is, of course, Digital Restrictions Managed (DRM) to the hilt.
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See:-
BetaNews – Legal P2P Service Close to Launch, October 21, 2005
GNAB – New (and phony) BMG p2p app, June 2, 2005
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
- Mohandas Gandhi
Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local political representatives. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance.
October 21st, 2005 at 10:26 pm
RIAA members sued Napster and the like, then they took these “companies” to leverage their own DRM’d P2P…. thinking they understand it.
BUT, they don’t. None, NONE-WHATSOEVER has turned a profit except for iTunes. They are desperate, they wonder why “by raising the price of a worthless download more people don’t buy”?
They are like the rail-industry for mass transport. Personal cars took over. Unless there is a structural change such as diminishing oil and gas supplies, the cartel is out-of-luck!
Simple as that.
October 22nd, 2005 at 4:06 am
Since the dawn of time we have evolved from almost everything,
to clothing, hairdo’s , cars, technology.
clothing in regular stores now a days cost over 20 , 40 , 80 dollars for one pair of paints or shirt , what is cheaper to go to a store like goodwill and find it the same pants the same shirt that same dress that cost an arm and a leg a lot cheaper than what it cost in Walmart or Sears or even J.C. Penny’s .
But yet there is some people that is true to form and must , must , buy from these stores because they’ve grown up getting the things they always wanted and the richer the better.
take for instance dvd’s or cd’s which is the controversy of this constant but annoying battle the riaa is going threw with users of the Internet (I will never honor the riaa by capitalizing their name).
The riaa constantly barges in people’s houses trying to take their children away from them because they file share music by using p2p file sharing systems like Kazaa or Grokster or Morpheus, which the riaa have spys and hackers on them watching their every move and once in a while sending their little and hopefully harmless viruses through the songs that people download.
And the Record Companies complain because their paychecks aren’t as big as it used to be and their wives and children might have to go with-out their fur coats and expensive toys, because way back when in the 80’s cd’s and tapes were only for 15 to 20 dollars and people such as the terrible Teenagers (as I think the riaa calls them )
used to buy up a lot of them for half of the price that they are today.
I went to Walmart the other day and did a price check for 40 dollars I could get to popular movies , so I went to a place where they had cd’s and dvd’s both and for 80 dollars I got the two movies that walmart had plus two popular cd’s and 4 playstations 2 games all popular all very , very expensive at the regular stores including walmart which sells how low it’s prices are through comercials.
and I didn’t get them off the net , didn’t pay for them they weren’t hot or the piracy dvd people in New York on a street corner tried to sell me.
I got it through a cheap but very well stocked with good cd’s and excellent movies, store and none of them movies were from off the file sharing systems the riaa is so afraid of .
So lets ask ourselves about the prices we all have to pay.
Some do it to be miss popular, some do it to show authority and they think respect.
But I think they do it because they are old fashioned and they can’t keep up with the times of Technology.
like I say for my title
Since The Dawon Of Time We Have Evolved
too bad for the world the Record Companies and movie companies and the riaa have not!!!!!!!!
Sincerely,
LadyMatika
October 22nd, 2005 at 8:39 am
The p2p scene is the antithesis of corporate mentality. Where corporations are about the dollar, protection of turf, and keeping things in the same stream; p2p is not. P2p is about sharing with one another, without money or gain. The idea is to find things you won’t hear commercially.
There is no source out today that continually exposes one to new music. Used to be radio filled that gap. Now it is so commercial there is no time for discovery, there is only time to push the sale. When big money was discovered in concerts in the 70’s and 80’s, many corporations got involved. They bought up labels left and right. Not because they cared about the art involved. They did it because it was the source of big money.
Naturally, big money is hesitant to try something new. Give them the tried and true that sells. Many artists of the time complained of selling out to the man. Corporate structure was more concerned about the single drum beat being in the right place, instead of art for arts sake.
Ever notice that there isn’t much new coming down the tubes like there were in the 70’s? I mean you see remakes, covers, even Greatest Hits in abundance. What you don’t see is the passion, the political statements in song, the gathering point where the audience says, “Ya, I get that, that’s how I feel.” The soul and feeling is gone.
Nor is the development of the artist a concern anymore. It is strickly a money machine and nothing else. Takes years of dues to make an artist, there are no true short cuts. In todays corporate culture, there is no time for that, the dollar has to be made today, every day. Artists don’t really get the following they did as there is no development time to gain fans. The best example I can think of is the Ashley Simpson affair where an almost unknown is caught on stage lip syncing and it is pretty obvious that the stage presence isn’t there. It is simply artificial.
That fakeness is felt by the audience too. No more are the blockbuster albums that sell by the hundreds of thousands on a weekly basis. Those days left when the audience no longer associated with the artist on a personal level.
The art of music has taken a serious downturn. When combined with outmoded and outdated methods of sales and attempts to continue to control the business; the cartels are in for lean times. Raising the prices aren’t going to bring in the customer. Nor is handicapping equipment. The cartels have served their usefulness and are no longer needed. They are a dying breed.