Also see http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/opinion/03bono.html?scp=2&sq=bono&st=cse.
He is not alone in being a “progressive” who is
happy with DRM. It’s like being a strong free speech advocate as long as
it is good speech.
Intellectual Property Developers
Peter Arkle
Caution! The only thing protecting the movie and TV industries from the fate
that has befallen music and indeed the newspaper business is the size of the
files. The immutable laws of bandwidth tell us we’re just a few years
away from being able to download an entire season of “24” in 24
seconds. Many will expect to get it free.
A decade’s worth of music file-sharing and swiping has made clear that
the people it hurts are the creators — in this case, the young, fledgling
songwriters who can’t live off ticket and T-shirt sales like the least
sympathetic among us — and the people this reverse Robin Hooding benefits
are rich service providers, whose swollen profits perfectly mirror the lost
receipts of the music business.
We’re the post office, they tell us; who knows what’s in the
brown-paper packages? But we know from America’s noble effort to stop
child pornography, not to mention China’s ignoble effort to suppress
online dissent, that it’s perfectly possible to track content. Perhaps
movie moguls will succeed where musicians and their moguls have failed so far,
and rally America to defend the most creative economy in the world, where
music, film, TV and video games help to account for nearly 4 percent of gross
domestic product. Note to self: Don’t get over-rewarded rock stars on
this bully pulpit, or famous actors; find the next Cole Porter, if he/she
hasn’t already left to write jingles.
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[mailto:nnsquad-bounces+nnsquad=bobf.frankston.com@nnsquad.org] On Behalf Of Lauren
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U2's Bono suggests Chinese-style tracking of P2P users,
etc.
http://bit.ly/4xZhHE (BBC)
--Lauren--
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