Apply a certain value of digital rights tax to all monthly internet accounts to users in every country. This may need to be staggered for various regions, but then artists from those regions earn staggered royalties as a result.

Jesus Christ Help up in our time of need Ahmen.

Ok financial slavery for ever from an industry that believes in increasing profit every year forever now the governments of the world will be a slave of the RIAA etc. Hmmm may be all copyright holders will get a share? I should hurry up and copyright some thousand hours of white noise and get my share if the money is shared proportional to my recordings copyrighted Hahaha.

As it is, all the distribution happens on other people’s sites and the only people benefiting from it are the ISPs due to increased bandwidth sales.

But I have to point out that a lot of the comments here refer to greed on the part of an industry that has lost 50% of its revenue in 10 years. Compare the price of one track on eMusic.com with the price of a single in the seventies. 7Digital.com has loads of albums for £5-7. Plus, when people are given the opportunity of paying whatever they feel, they overwhelmingly don’t.

Seems like a good outline for a plan that could work if it were handled properly.

So Reasoned Mind, what say you to this proposal? Show us your with your superior intellect and decidedly pro-industry outlook, whats wrong with it, even though megacorp could make a boat load of money at it. Give us your “Reasoned Mind”!

That is the entire point. I believe everyone is going about this wrong

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

Check out the number of Net users world wide. This could easily work after the tech bugs are sorted out.

I personally would pay that for free access to content of a decent quality.

Talentless…

So when some systems came out (namely cartidge system) did the price not go down but up. They changed it to manifacturing costs.

Manificaturing costs went down and they altered the reason.

Its all about money and them justifying the cost, if piracy was stopped it would then be retailers that sell the product cheap, or cause of sales from other countrys etc. (its why you have region coding on DVDs)

I do buy products, when they are good, if they are worth buying. Others end up in the recycle bin once I realise they are crap.

So what is the answer? In my mind it is actually pretty simple.

Since the industry business models are really based around the Western economies because of the potential profits, then my simplified strategy is thus:

Music, TV, Movie, Gaming studios, Indie groups, independent artists etc all make their works freely available online to be shared via P2P, or whichever technology surpasses it with a unique country specific, yet global tracker hard wired in.

Apply a certain value of digital rights tax to all monthly internet accounts to users in every country. This may need to be staggered for various regions, but then artists from those regions earn staggered royalties as a result.

Each country would pass this digital rights tax to a central organisation such as the “United Nation of Internet”, who would in turn then distribute digital fees to the various studios, artists etc based upon the number of downloads/ hits on the tracker.

TV fees etc in various countries like the UK/ South Africa/ NZ would then be scrapped and TV moved pretty much entirely online.

Copyright holders also come to the party and reduce the length of copyright because the community keeps these files alive using their internet resources, due to the massive “wagging tail” of file sharing to something along the lines of 10yrs for games, 20yrs TV shows, 30yrs Movies and 40yrs Music & books.

And there are no restrictions upon how you can transfer, backup, copy, play the media etc afterwards.

Sure this is only a simplified outline with a lot of potential technical bugs to be ironed out, but at the end of the day it gives everyone essentially what they want, but at the same time both sides have to COMPROMISE.

Artists coming from outside of these countries can still be recognised and paid by the “UNOI” for their downloads.

The big studios can then spend their time lobbying countries that haven’t signed up to the open internet format, most of which are places where true pirating of market place CD’s, dvd’s take place now anyway.

The UNOI is non profit, 50% funded by digital rights revenue and 50% by studios, but run by a group of internet companies from each region, with open accounting on the net. Every TV show, song, book, album, artist, movie submitted to the tracking system pays a nominal license fee to join the potential shared pool revenue, which helps fund the above.

Suddenly everything becomes worldwide release, at same global rates and the studios etc only need to maintain a small website where they can initially release the file to the web and the P2P system will take over from there. People can then download from there, or join in to a swarm on another tracker site.

There you go everyone, now get out there and make it happen, plus iron out the tech bugs to prevent bots downloading Lily Allen 600 million times per month.

This business of trolling a troll is not going to work!!! I am so fumingly pissed off at you all right now!!

And for the record – I am not schizophrenic! All the voices in my head agree on that!

We must all work together to bring these big asshole ripoff studios down to the ground and we can do it.

I understand what you are saying. But contrary to popular opinion, properly done stats cannot be made to say anything you want.

In fact, I would suggest that properly done stats are our biggest and best formal weapon against the copyright industry. Their ‘stats’ based claims are so dodgy and hyperbolic that an average second year stats student should be able to be tear them to pieces in their sleep.

However, according to Jupiter Reseach, whose figures the BPI uses…

You pays yer money, they, after painstaking research, disregard all the evidence, and produce whatever result you want them to. Statistician merenaries

Makes perfect sense!

troll this , troll that.

incomprehensible argument this, illogical statement that.

That is all.

Quote “I don’t work in the industry and I don’t have a favored cause here.”

Seems to disagree with your comment @#29
“My money is on government and industry in the long run.”