Why should copyright holders be given protection for their creation for life plus ?
Their end effort produces a product of no value

Drug companies spend years developing a drug that saves or improves life, yet are protected for only twenty years
Farmers spend millions and get payed at rates that their grandfathers were payed.
The man who repairs your car does not get payed each time the car starts after a repair.
The plumber does not get payed each time you flush after a repair.
When Girl scouts sell you a cookie it,s yours.
When you buy a car, the manufacture does not have the right to tell you how to drive it.

If no music was played from this day on:
People would not die from its loss
There would be food to eat
there would be cloths to ware
there would be water to drink
there would be homes to live in
there would be cars to drive
there would be air to breath
there would be planes to fly
Life would change very little if at all, music is nothing more then fluff, how it’s become a top priority
for the government is beyond me.
The fluff salesman has done their job well i guess.

My ideas would allow musicians like yourself to earn more money than today (maybe even more than lawyers ). I promise to write an article on the subject, that would explain the concept, and try to get it online here.
Please stay tuned, I would like to hear your thoughts about it.

Itai Leshem
ileshem@gmail.com

Igor B.

Hi there,

I’m a lawyer from Israel dealing mainly with the Internet and I wrote several articles (in Hebrew) on the subject of file sharing software trying to drive the point that sharing music should be free and that there are economical models that would allow the music industry to benefit from such free and unlimited sharing of music.

I have some information regarding the latest move taken by Sharman Networks to block Australians from using Kazaa, the information would be very interesting to the public.

Aren’t you wondering how come the idea to filter Australian users instead of filtering content was never raised before yesterday? You must have noticed that in all the articles and statements made by Sharman Networks in the last several months and in all the court documents Sharman Networks had only 2 choices, either to install the content filter or to close its business, no one talked about a simple solution that would prevent Australians from using the software and still let the rest of the world enjot Kazaa like today.

The fact of the matter is that I emailed the idea to Sharman Networks some 10 days ago (see the email below) and also posted my idea as a talkback response in 2 articles about Kazaa that were published in Slyck.com (see links below). Sharman Networks obviously implemented my idea, currently without crediting me for it.

I think that the public has a right to know how Sharman Networks got to the idea that may save Kazaa. I sent them my idea to block Australians under the concept that information and ideas should also be shared on the Internet freely (not just media files). Sharing ideas without asking monetary compensation can be extremely beneficial to the Internet and to the world in general, as happened in this case. This is an important issue not just to me personally (as it may deter me from letting other people and companies free access to my ideas) but to the entire p2p community, that community has a right to know that the idea came from one of them.

I would appreciate if you make this inforamation public and and contact Sharman Networks to receive its comments.

Regards,

Itai Leshem, Tel-Aviv
+972-54-2172720

Here is the original email I sent to email addresses I found of Sharman Networks (I also forwarded it 2 days later to julie.fenwick@iicpr.com):

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From: Itai Leshem <ileshem@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 25, 2005 7:00 PM
Subject: An Idea that may keep Sharman Networks alive
To: queries@sharmannews.com, sharman@iicpr.com

Hi,

I’m a guy from Israel working as a lawyer and I think you may want to hear an idea that may save Sharman Networks:

If the Australian courts are mainly concerned with piracy in Australia then instead of installing a filtering software for copyrighted content, simply don’t allow Austaralian surfers to use Kazza by letting Kazza check the IP of its users, so basically you filter the users instead of the content. The rest of the world would still be able to use Kazza like today and the Australian surfers can use a different P2P software.

Its a long shot because I am not familar with the Australian law, but if the Australian copyright laws are terrestrial then the courts should be satisfied with a solution that would prevent copyright violations in Australia only.

Please don’t descard this email before consulting a lawyer/manager in Sharman Networks.

Thanks,

Itai Leshem, Tel-Aviv.
Mobile +972542172720

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As I said I also posted my ideas as a talkback response on Slyck:

The 21st response here:
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16659

and the fifth response here:
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16731
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Knowing that the chances of my idea to reach managers in Sharman would increase if I contact as much people as possible in Sharman I also wrote my ideas, at the same date of sending the first emails (November 25) in the forms Kazaa provides below:

http://www.kazaa.com/us/contact/bug.htm
http://www.kazaa.com/us/contact/advertisingenquiry.htm
http://www.kazaa.com/us/contact/businessenquiry.htm