Comments on: French ‘legal p2p downloads’ plan http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7815 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:45:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7815/comment-page-1#comment-33400 Reader's Write Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:44:11 +0000 #comment-33400 With all the funny stuff that has been pulled by the cartels, it is a wonder this hasn't already surfaced in many countries as the solution. If France became the poster child of how to do it for country after country because of the continual lawsuits being attempted by the cartels through their various groups, you can bet you would never hear lawsuit again with the words p2p tied to them. It is an elegent solution to the problem. The artist won't get paid, anymore than they do now. Creative accounting with no need to worry about the cost of anything will ensure that artists are always in the hole. Still this could well be the workable solution and you can bet the cartel will pull out all stops to nip this in the bud. It would tie their hands for continual price raising without having to get regulatory permission to do so. On a global scale, having to deal with country after country, just might keep them busy at something else for a change. With all the funny stuff that has been pulled by the cartels, it is a wonder this hasn’t already surfaced in many countries as the solution. If France became the poster child of how to do it for country after country because of the continual lawsuits being attempted by the cartels through their various groups, you can bet you would never hear lawsuit again with the words p2p tied to them. It is an elegent solution to the problem. The artist won’t get paid, anymore than they do now. Creative accounting with no need to worry about the cost of anything will ensure that artists are always in the hole.

Still this could well be the workable solution and you can bet the cartel will pull out all stops to nip this in the bud. It would tie their hands for continual price raising without having to get regulatory permission to do so. On a global scale, having to deal with country after country, just might keep them busy at something else for a change.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7815/comment-page-1#comment-33387 Reader's Write Sat, 04 Feb 2006 06:04:31 +0000 #comment-33387 The EFF has been proposing a system like this for years http://www.eff.org/share/collective_lic_wp.php The EFF has been proposing a system like this for years

http://www.eff.org/share/collective_lic_wp.php

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7815/comment-page-1#comment-33374 Reader's Write Sat, 04 Feb 2006 03:42:52 +0000 #comment-33374 "The project has worried the music, film and television industries because it would make France the first country to allow unlimited peer-to-peer downloading for a flat fee of several euros a month" Not quite so, really. Radio stations in Frances, as elsewhere, get perrformances licenses that are extremely cheap for the right to broadcast millions of songs to an unlimited number of radios an unlimited number of times for the license period. As a matter of fact the licenses are so cheap that the alleged recipients of the license fees, the songwriters, get practically nothing for the use of their songs. The music industry is not complaining about the cheap use (almost free) of their music. The reason is that the radio performances increase the sales of their CDs. Rafael Venegas http://www.gvenegas.com “The project has worried the music, film and television industries because it would make France the first country to allow unlimited peer-to-peer downloading for a flat fee of several euros a month”

Not quite so, really. Radio stations in Frances, as elsewhere, get perrformances licenses that are extremely cheap for the right to broadcast millions of songs to an unlimited number of radios an unlimited number of times for the license period.

As a matter of fact the licenses are so cheap that the alleged recipients of the license fees, the songwriters, get practically nothing for the use of their songs.

The music industry is not complaining about the cheap use (almost free) of their music. The reason is that the radio performances increase the sales of their CDs.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

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