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There has been a lot happening in the past few days with the recording industry having a few wins. The UK have legislated that ISP inform by letter and education that P2P file sharing of copyright material is illegal.
A Case in Dublin Ireland this week settled to the Recording Industry pressure to do similar with threats of disconnecting them from the service if the practice does not cease. http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20090129a.html
This report commissioned by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's(IFPI) the representing body is pushing the ISP's take the action to stop the P2P downloading of content.
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_resources/dmr2009.html
Why should the ISP industry be responsible to Police the Music industry. Who makes them the police and do they really want to be the police. How do ISP identify genuine P2P download against illegal P2P.
The Film and Music industry should take this as an opportunity to capture and audience as Mark Pesce point out to the live presentation of "Piracy Is Good?", delivered by Mark Pesce on May 6th, 2005 at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. To down load his presentation you have to use a bittorrent but is legal. This was done to emphasise the value in bittorrent software and P2P protocols (Mark Pesce, 2005)
You can read his presentation here at http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html
Pesce point out how the BBC1 in the UK has used bit torrent to get attention to shows like the First episode of Doctor Who and how Television Programs distribution model is not meeting the demands of the consumer and that producers need to consider other distribution models to change with the new technology and give the consumer better choices .(Mark Pesce,2005)
This is a survey I took part in on National Recording Association Industry Professionals web site http://www.narip.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1&limit=5&limitstart=5
Should ISPs require customers to pay a "music tax" to combat illegal downloading?
No
24
66.7%
Yes
12
33.3%
Number of Voters
: 36
First Vote
: Friday, 25 January 2008 21:04
Last Vote
: Thursday, 29 January 2009 20:38
So this is so crazy. They now want to place the burden onto the ISP's as Tax Collectors to support their industry. Its a bit like saying you should pay me a tax for reading my Blog.
Please Pay your Tax to Chris'o Blog at PayPal please
So clearly the so far is telling them that the idea is stupid from their own members. Log on and have your say
The new market opportunities for these copyright holders in a fantastic one and should be embraced. The money you will save of lawyers would fund the new model as you would only need a few million to get it up and running.
Here are a few comments I stolen from http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/42116 that are worth considering about this issue.
MartynDavenport
Jan 16, 2009
When is the music industry gonna get off it's high horse and accept that they're the criminals for the prices they charge? They can keep harping on about how wrong it is to share files, and how it damages musicians etc, but they're patronising people. Call me old-fashioned, but maybe bands would have to go back to earning their wages from doing what it is that bands are actually supposed to do, play live. Instead of only touring to advertise their over produced over-priced albums.
Hackneyman
Jan 16, 2009
Why is it, that the only people who can't work out how to make digital music downloads work for them .. are the record companies Their blanket condemnation of 'illegal downloads' and throwing arbitary figures about doesn't reflect the situation as us music fans see it.Surely some downloads, they might view as having being downloaded illegal, are just the modern equivalent to old fashioned radio play that would then lead to a 'sale'.Apparently 'legal' downloads had a very good year http://mp3.about.com/b/2009/01/02/digital-download-sales-gives-music-industry-a-boost.htm"In the top ten selling digital tracks, Leona Lewis's Bleeding Love was number one with 3.37 million downloads, followed by the track, Low, from Flo Rida Feat featuring T-Pain (2.94 million downloads). For digital albums, Coldplay's Viva La Vida triumphed in the top ten selling digital album charts with 617,000 units; Jack Johnson's Sleep Thorough The Static was number 2 with 325,000 units sold"According to their 95% of all downloads are illegal statement then those figures above = 5% of 'potential sales which means that we were conning Leona Lewis out of 57 million extra sales - it's all just rubbish and propaganda...If the record industry keeps wining like this, the day when all recorded music is free can't be too far away, and the artists can make their money from gigs, merchandise and sponsorship... it will be the record company's own fault.HM
The Felony
Jan 16, 2009
If the record labels weren't so greedy in the first place we wouldn't have this problem. It's appalling what they pay the artists. I'd rather not give my money to them. There is a benefit of illegal downloading; its caused listeners to find new music and not just listen to regurgitated rubbish in the pop charts.
I just note the figures from Hackneyman on legal music down loads and show how artist are becoming popular by producing their music for free and still enjoy strong sales.
For further reading have a read of the reviews on mp3.about.com
http://mp3.about.com/od/digitalmusicdelivery/a/mp3annualreview.htm
References
Mark Pesce,2005,"Piracy Is Good?",viewed 30 January 2009, from http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20090129a.html
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