Re: your friendly correspondent from the US presents: Free Sampling Killed by Court of Appeals

Chris James wrote:

>On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:03:36 +0100, "Jim Peters" <[email protected]> said:
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>>Matthew Astley wrote:
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>>>>Has ownership ever been pushed so far and enforced so rigidly
>>>>before?  Or is this something special to our times?
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>>>Since how long has there been big money in ownership, and an even
>>>larger amount of perceived money?
>>>
>>>Suppose the bottom were to fall out of the music market and your
>>>average teenager was perfectly content listening to beats generated
>>>entirely at random by (e.g.) a piece of public domain software.
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>>>Would the lawyers leave music alone?  Seems likely.  Would the cost be
>>>too high? I think so.
>>>
>>>Hopefully you can rescue a useful idea from under the smothering
>>>cynicism and fuzzy thinking.
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>>So, what we really need to defeat/weaken the current record industry
>>is the equivalent of EasyJet or MegaBus -- cheap but cheerful popular
>>music sold at rock-bottom prices ... the same kind of stuff that
>>already fills the charts, in popular formats (CD), only much cheaper.
>>I wonder if this could work.
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>It seems like EasyGroup are taking the DRM route via Wippit
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/17/easymusic_wippit_alliance/
>Still it sounds like Stelios is working on being inivative - I'm
>intrigued by his 'Copyleft' concept:
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I've met the owner of Wippit - its pretty abrasive DRM is GOD stuff...

otoh myself and www.copyleftmedia.org.uk would applaud EasyGroup - and 
i'll bet they're less abrasive to work with than a certain owner of 
Wippit....

mC~

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