A novel approach to music-sharing....
Mar. 9th, 2005 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reprobaytRead an article from out of Canada about a novel approach to dealing with the 'illegal music sharing'.
The crux of the plan (from the article):
Pearlman proposes putting all recorded music on a robust search engine -- Google would be an ideal choice, but even iTunes might work -- and charging an insignificant fee of, say, five cents a song. In addition, a 1 per cent sales tax would be placed on Internet services and new computers -- two industries that many argue have profited enormously from rampant file-sharing, but haven't had to compensate artists.
The assumption is that if songs cost only 5 cents, people would download exponentially more music. Daniel Levitin, a McGill professor also associated with the project, said that a simple computer program, such as those already in use on Internet retail sites, could track people's purchases and help them to dig through what would become a massive repository of music on the Web.
The extra windfall for musicians and those who own the publishing rights to the songs could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, Pearlman said his study predicts.
Hmm.
What do you think? Answer below and discuss....
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The crux of the plan (from the article):
Pearlman proposes putting all recorded music on a robust search engine -- Google would be an ideal choice, but even iTunes might work -- and charging an insignificant fee of, say, five cents a song. In addition, a 1 per cent sales tax would be placed on Internet services and new computers -- two industries that many argue have profited enormously from rampant file-sharing, but haven't had to compensate artists.
The assumption is that if songs cost only 5 cents, people would download exponentially more music. Daniel Levitin, a McGill professor also associated with the project, said that a simple computer program, such as those already in use on Internet retail sites, could track people's purchases and help them to dig through what would become a massive repository of music on the Web.
The extra windfall for musicians and those who own the publishing rights to the songs could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, Pearlman said his study predicts.
Hmm.
What do you think? Answer below and discuss....
[Poll #451533]
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Date: 2005-03-09 08:59 pm (UTC)Maybe...there is a great deal that my participation would depend on.
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Date: 2005-03-09 09:49 pm (UTC)I just realized that I get free access to Radio Plus from Comcast since I have my High Speed Internet service through them...
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Date: 2005-03-09 10:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-09 10:33 pm (UTC)