Comments on: OK Go: Pirates? No. p2p? Yes.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:31:51 +0000

I’m in the US, odd thing is I agree with this post. Only the US would be smart to protect the innovators as past history has suggested it should. It seems instead we are on the long slide to the bottom of the pile and the legislators have yet to figure out that tax income is directly tied to that position on the pile and its GNP. For such a small part of the GNP, the cartels have far more influance than they should have. So much so that the rest of the GNP will be strongly affected by these ill thought out laws that are so restrictive to innovation or new startups. The majority of the income comes from new business that are small but there are so many of them that they total up to a nice slice of the pie. Now there are tons of new laws, along with those that the cartels have figured out how to get in place, that will prevent the continuation of these new startups.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:10:15 +0000

Only joking!

Nice observation Russell.

The U.S. needs to protect the incumbents. Just about everyone else needs to protect the innovators.

Perhaps if the free and open sharing of information is sucessful without being stomped out by restrictive laws…the U.S. may just realize the rest of the world exists.

Wouldn’t that be something?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:25:21 +0000

“So P2P is good for up and coming bands, but bad for Madonna…”

Translation to economic speak: Competition is good for the innovators, but bad for the incumbents.

Nothing new here… Except that when we talk about other innovation we see laws such as anti-trust/competition laws that are intended to protect the innovators from the incumbents. When will our governments wake up and realize that Canadian creators need protection *FROM* the incumbents (major labels, major studios, convicted “software manufacturing” monopolists), not additional protection *FOR* them.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:12:29 +0000

“What’s an artist and/or label to do?”

Artists shoud follow these rules:

A. Never sue or threaten to sue your fans.
B. Never allow your record company to do A for you or itself.
C. Be posiitve. Think of p2p sharing as the equivalent of radio airplay. The more of it, the more the demand for you.

Failure to follow the rules will cause the fans to ignore or boycott you.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 05:05:57 +0000

So P2P is good for up and coming bands, but bad for Madonna…