2009 is likely to see further development in these types of services and increased value for music lovers.

Steve Purdham
CEO – We7
http://www.we7.com

P8P will work. For all you slowpoke.jpgs:

Yes, peightpee, paid pee. Contrary to shit in bottles that is.

Would I have to pay that fee even though I rarely download music? (I don’t, I’ve never been into music that much). What about the MPAA? Surely they’ll want a pirate movie tax. And the TV networks? The video game companies? The applications companies, like Norton and Adobe… How much of a monthly tax are you prepared to pay? $10? $20? $50?

My predictions for file sharing in 2009;

1. File sharing will get more expensive for many people as ISPs like AT&T start imposing ridiculously small usage caps and overage charges on their accounts.

2. The RIAA & MPAA will continue trying to re-write copyright laws to suit their own interests and stupid politicians will continue to help them (as long as they get paid).

3. The eDonkey network will continue to shrink as more and more servers get taken down.

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As long as your packets are encrypted, your data is unreadable by your ISP. For all they know, you could be downloading old episodes of Gilligan's Island. They can, however, determine if you are using bit torrent, even if your headers are encrypted.

The main hurdle to leap over and reinventing tracking.
If all goes as predicted, and there's a clamp down on P2P, then the next gen will need to address how peers find both the files they're looking for and are able to locate one another.
DHT is great – but it might not last.

Moreover, if you take indie artists into account, who are not signed at any label at all and rather just trade their files through P2P, it would be very hard to pay many artists since one would need to track them down before one could send money to them. It would also be difficult to do the detailed investigations necessary in order to prove who was actually the one who created the music. What about uploading it to people who have not yet paid it? What about creating one's own derivative work from the music? And what about everything that is non-music?

It is an okay idea that is difficult to implement. Much better just to extend "fair use" to everything non-commercial. The original creators still have their rights to use their works commercially.

Roze

Socialism is all about attacking private property. Although copyright is technically a type of private property, it’s a property that only exists because government creates it in the first place. Owning things like land or personal possessions or money isn’t a right granted by the government. These rights preexist the concept of government, the government shouldn’t be able to take them away. Because of this, rolling back the scope or duration of copyright is not the same as redistributing natural forms of property.

I know that as a socialist you have trouble differentiating between the different targets of your redistributive tendencies, but you need to understand that the rest of us feel rather strongly about natural property rights. If you see P2P as the first step in a socialist crusade against private property, you’re in for a rude awakening.

Moreover, if you take indie artists into account, who are not signed at any label at all and rather just trade their files through P2P, it would be very hard to pay many artists since one would need to track them down before one could send money to them. It would also be difficult to do the detailed investigations necessary in order to prove who was actually the one who created the music. And what about everything that is non-music?

It is an okay idea that is difficult to implement. Much better just to extend "fair use" to everything non-commercial. The original creators still have their rights to use their works commercially.

Moreover, if you take indie artists into account, who are not signed at any label at all and rather just trade their files through P2P, it would be very hard to pay many artists since one would need to track them down before one could send money to them. It would also be difficult to do the detailed investigations necessary in order to prove who was actually the one who created the music. And what about everything that is non-music?

It is an okay idea that is difficult to implement. Much better just to extend "fair use" to everything non-commercial. The original creators still have their rights to use their works commercially.

Moreover, if you take indie artists into account, who are not signed at any label at all and rather just trade their files through P2P, it would be very hard to pay many artists since one would need to track them down before one could send money to them. And what about everything that is non-music?

It is a good idea that is difficult to implement.

The actual obvious solution is to extend "fair use" to include all non-commercial usage and non-commercial derivative works.

Roze

The actual obvious solution is to extend "fair use" to include all non-commercial usage and non-commercial derivative works.

Roze

The actual obvious solution is to extend "fair use" to include all non-commercial usage and non-commercial derivative works.

The actual obvious solution is to extend "fair use" to include all non-commercial usage and non-commercial derivative works.

Linux isoz you use technology to allow full speed to sites based on a YOU apply to get your site freed up and as long as you have no "copyrightable" conent ..you get approved.

YUP the whole hting is a pain in arse
but i had in detail at faircopyright for canada worked out every detail.

I hten sat for 2 months showing a way that it could be done in canada by removing Micosoft in migration on ALL GOVERNMENT COMPUTERS.

Warner then jumps in and says ya great idea but what they want is about TWENTY TIMES. WHat socan proposed and would and is this idea effectively going to END the usefulness of ANY HIGHSPEED LEFT in CANADA.

ALL the 60GB caps, all the traffic shaping, means why bother with highspeed at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dough

Jeez.

I've got a prediction, though. Pushed to new heights of desparation thanks to the failure of their doomed 3-strikes initiative, the MAFIAA will find itself in unprecedented legal trouble after their War on Sharing violates one too many basic freedom laws.

The RIAA will be first on the chopping block.

Some of us don’t want to subsidize the current music industry.

If there’s a flat fee option for people who want it, fine.

freetards already are socialists. always crying about other people making more money then them…boo hoo! get a better job. be smarter. work harder. or shut up.

of course, the banking and automotive industries can now wear that title as well so it's not like it doesn't go both ways. all in all 2008 was a pretty despicable year.

"Much better just to extend "fair use" to everything non-commercial. The original creators still have their rights to use their works commercially."
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this is not feasible for the movie of video game industry as has already been explained to you.

very few video games have any commercial viability, let alone the kind of viability that would cover production costs and salaries. counter-strike or halo type tournaments cannot be applied to all games and don't even make enough money to warrant mentioning in the first place. theater showings for movies currently account for 16-20% of the market over the last six years. under your idiot plan, 80% of the film industry's revenue would POOF! and what do you think would happen then? surely not innovation, nor an increase on chances taken, everything would become four-quadrant (that is, catering to all four major viewer demographics) so r-rated movies would be gone. Big blockbusters would be gone because no one would gamble that hard if there's wasn't a DVD market to prop up potentially lackluster BO. i hope you like romantic comedies!

so once again, we have roze talking out of his ass, utterly ignorant of the business side to everything. i'm as surprised as you are…

People having 5 and 10MB lines are more common than people on the 2mb lines (am on a 100mb line myself… and could be considered a power user with hundreds of gigs(or more) used in bandwidth per month.. but not a single complaint from my ISP and i pay about $50 a month) and gran is on a 10mb line, no matter if all she does is chat/webcam with her grandkiddies/browse sites and email.

Sweden is also the home to the fastest privately owned connection, 40GBPS – thats GB not MB (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlif…

And finally, I dont care what "fair copyright" says, paying labels to just sit back and do nothing is just wrong, them being buried sounds much better.

Cheers!
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