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I’d love it if music could be free; but intellectual property must be protected, or the Music/TV/Film/Publishing businesses will all get hosed.
Really the big error of the music business was the CD, where they wanted you to pay $18 for 12 songs to get one or two good ones. This is a major reason there’s been so much illegal file-swapping—the music business was offering no fair, legal alternative.
Of course, the Apple Music Store looks like it will change all that.
In the meantime, many people have said that the cat’s out of the bag, and there will be no way to prevent file-swapping of copyrighted songs. But today’s news appears to show that it will be possible to prevent this.
Record Labels Send Flurry of SubpoenasIt looks like the record industry wasn’t kidding.
Three weeks after announcing that it planned to sue those who share songs online, the Recording Industry Assn. of America has obtained federal court subpoenas for the identities of at least 871 people it has accused of violating music copyrights, Associated Press reported Friday.
The subpoenas compel Internet service providers to reveal the names and addresses of people whose accounts allegedly have been used to make songs available for free copying on a file-sharing network such as Kazaa.
...One thing seems certain: The RIAA has no plans to send warning letters to the people it targets. Instead, they will simply be sued.
If you’ve got a computer running Kazaa and serving a few hundred tunes… this is a good time to pack it in.
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The technology is always going to be their for those that know how to use it. If the record industry was smart they would of changed a long time ago. Business models grow and die - there time has come. It will just take some kicking and screaming to get the alternative revenue streams out there.