RIAA calls for p2p filters
p2pnet.net News:- The RIAA and p2p network operators didn’t see eye-to-eye during yesterday’s Council on Competitiveness’ bipartisan Forum on Innovation & Technology.
The council devoted its February 26 boxed lunch session to a discussion on peer-to-peer networks, the technology behind them, and the potential they hold for legitimate business and consumer applications.
“Right, right and right again,” said P2P United executive director Adam Eisgrau the day before.
P2P United represents BearShare (FreePeers, Inc), Blubster (Manolito P2P), Limewire (LimeWire, LLC), Grokster (Grokster Ltd), eDonkey2000 (MetaMachine Inc) and Morpheus (Streamcast Networks Inc).
The RIAA’s (Recording Industry Association of America) David Sutphen called for p2p application owners to filter out copyrighted content, says a PC World report here.
P2P United, however, is still waiting for a response to a letter it hand-delivered to the RIAA yesterday, demanding access to technology the record industry mouthpiece claims can filter porn and other material.
In the meanwhile, Eisgrau proposed a collective licensing agreement between music companies and p2p vendors with an agreed price paid to musicians for each song traded, said the report, continuing:
“A licensing agreement would work in much the same way that artists get paid for music played on the radio, Eisgrau said, and Congress could step in if music companies don’t agree on their own. Several examples of compulsory licensing of copyrighted content already exist, including royalties for webcasting music, Eisgrau is quoted as saying.
“The idea that voluntary or compulsory collected licensing is somehow an alien concept, that it’s a politically dead-on-arrival issue, is not only unjustifiable, it’s a dangerous idea.”
But several problems exist with compulsory licenses, Sutphen responded, says the PC World report. They wouldn’t guarantee p2p users would stop downloading free music, and a US compulsory license would force U.S. residents to subsidize free downloading overseas, he said. “A much better solution is a technology solution to a technology problem,” he said, again calling for p2p content filtering.
February 27th, 2004 at 3:19 pm
I don’t think that there is a problem with downloading music but it seems like the RIAA just wants to make a big deal out of it