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Should media companies try to fight or accomodate file sharing? Discuss today's Opinion Daily.
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I am entirely out of touch with the vocal minority (and i do believe you are a minority) who believe the United States' copyright laws are irrelevant. WTF is going on in this country? People are normally sued or put in jail for ripping off someone else's property. P2P HAS to be shut down or filtered. The thought of a $5 per month levy to bail out the record companies is outrageous. I do believe a monthly subscription model makes sense, I have one (Napster) and love it, but the model must be private and subject to competition.
wyly @ 8:43 PM PDT, Apr 2, 2008
I have said this time and time again, I have already paid tens of thousands of dollars to record companies in the last 35 years. I am done buying CD's at super inflated prices to make up for their idioctic old world view on the internet, file sharing etc. I have no problem paying a nominal monthly fee for content. This is a stupid conversation to be having because we all know this will in fact be the future. All they are doing is prolonging the misery and inevitable.
Stan Johnston @ 1:53 PM PDT, Apr 2, 2008
The internet economy is broken, with ISPs acting as piggy in the middle between content owners and consumers. Traditional CDNs simply dump increasing traffic on the ISPs doorstep on the north side of their network for them to deliver to the consumer without recompense. WhatÂ’s needed is a new deal that creates an eco-system of value between the content owner, CDN and ISP and builds an end to end delivery scheme from content owner to consumer with premium quality at a lower overall cost. We have worked with 30 ISPs over the last 4 years, and are focused on partnering with many of them to remove the fault lines from the internet economy.
Phill Robinson, CEO Velocix @ 7:39 AM PDT, Apr 2, 2008
They would have to accomodate. File sharing has been going on long before the internet was invented. When friends would burn a cd or copy a tape for someone. Now you can do it more easily over the internet. The companies cant do anything about it, the internet just turned on them. Artist cant just sit back and see there album make money, now they really have to work hard a tour to make real money. They should count on albums sales anymore but touring sales.
Wake up people @ 12:12 PM PDT, Apr 1, 2008