About file sharing.
Something to worry about and to think about: Big brother to watch illegal file sharers.
No, this is not a good news, it's an awareness request. Big editors and media companies have not yet opened their eyes to the business possibilities provided with file sharing over the internet.
In fact they have been always very slow and conservative regarding their business. They crudely defend their profit margins with lame arguments as "copyright infringement" and "author rights", when in fact they are only fighting for their own money.
WAKE UP PEOPLE, the business world will change, whether you want it or not! Music and movie sharing will happen and they best you could do is pop that niche and use it! Consider something like an on-line video sharing store. turn your brains on!...
I'll give you two things to think about:
The mp3 algorithm was turned public in July 7, 1994 by the Fraunhofer Society and Thomson. In September 9, 1995 the first real time player was made available, the Winplay3. Ever since that day mp3s have flooded the internet, users were able to listen to music with good audio quality and low disc space requirements. Media file sharing became increasingly common.
To help this file-sharing Napster was lunched in 1999. Created by Shawn Fanning, a student at Northeastern University in Boston. Nothing complicated hummm???
Of course record companies came along and started screaming: "They are stealing our business...." and eventually Napster was shut down.
Did they noticed the market's desire for this technology??? No.... they just saw something "evil" in it.
Portable mp3 players came to the market, and there was still no wide spread use of file sharing technology and peer-to-peer to tack this niche.
Amazon.com, eMusic and Rhapsody where ther first to open their eyes to the possibility that users wanted mp3 files, regardless of CD's or not. Itunes came later around 2005 and still not every music file was available!!!!
And they say it's evil and criminal.... they are just dont' want to change the way business is done.
Second:
Movies! While the mp3 have somehow survived and are now more or less easy to "legally" acquire. Movies and Videos files are not. They are highly illegal to share!.... Again it's the same bloody thing. There is a market there. Poeple want to download the movie and not buy the DVD if they don't want to! They are willing to pay a reasonable amount of money to be able to do that without being harrased!
Structures for it? They are there... We all use them. But they are viewed as illegal.
The media strategy? Make pressure on the public, make them feel criminal for downloading a movie. Harass and prosecute users who just want to evaluate if the movie is good or not before buying it... but basically, it's the editors who are blind to see the potential business here.
A good example of everyone's frustation on this can be seen by Producer Eric Wilkinson, who thanks pirates for "stealing" his film. The producer of the independent film “The Man from Earth”, wrote an email to RLSlog in which he thanks them for the free promotion they gave him. “In the future, I will not complain about file sharing” he wrote, “when I make my next picture, I just may upload the movie on the net myself!”. This example once again illustrates what a powerful promotion tool filesharing networks are, especially for independent productions with a small budget.
And they call them criminals....
We are all criminals because the law is wrong, it does not serve the people or the greater good of the community. Simply a group of Media companies with the look on their profit margins.
I would like to start a debate on this and promote a change in the system. Care to comment?
No, this is not a good news, it's an awareness request. Big editors and media companies have not yet opened their eyes to the business possibilities provided with file sharing over the internet.
In fact they have been always very slow and conservative regarding their business. They crudely defend their profit margins with lame arguments as "copyright infringement" and "author rights", when in fact they are only fighting for their own money.
WAKE UP PEOPLE, the business world will change, whether you want it or not! Music and movie sharing will happen and they best you could do is pop that niche and use it! Consider something like an on-line video sharing store. turn your brains on!...
I'll give you two things to think about:
The mp3 algorithm was turned public in July 7, 1994 by the Fraunhofer Society and Thomson. In September 9, 1995 the first real time player was made available, the Winplay3. Ever since that day mp3s have flooded the internet, users were able to listen to music with good audio quality and low disc space requirements. Media file sharing became increasingly common.
To help this file-sharing Napster was lunched in 1999. Created by Shawn Fanning, a student at Northeastern University in Boston. Nothing complicated hummm???
Of course record companies came along and started screaming: "They are stealing our business...." and eventually Napster was shut down.
Did they noticed the market's desire for this technology??? No.... they just saw something "evil" in it.
Portable mp3 players came to the market, and there was still no wide spread use of file sharing technology and peer-to-peer to tack this niche.
Amazon.com, eMusic and Rhapsody where ther first to open their eyes to the possibility that users wanted mp3 files, regardless of CD's or not. Itunes came later around 2005 and still not every music file was available!!!!
And they say it's evil and criminal.... they are just dont' want to change the way business is done.
Second:
Movies! While the mp3 have somehow survived and are now more or less easy to "legally" acquire. Movies and Videos files are not. They are highly illegal to share!.... Again it's the same bloody thing. There is a market there. Poeple want to download the movie and not buy the DVD if they don't want to! They are willing to pay a reasonable amount of money to be able to do that without being harrased!
Structures for it? They are there... We all use them. But they are viewed as illegal.
The media strategy? Make pressure on the public, make them feel criminal for downloading a movie. Harass and prosecute users who just want to evaluate if the movie is good or not before buying it... but basically, it's the editors who are blind to see the potential business here.
A good example of everyone's frustation on this can be seen by Producer Eric Wilkinson, who thanks pirates for "stealing" his film. The producer of the independent film “The Man from Earth”, wrote an email to RLSlog in which he thanks them for the free promotion they gave him. “In the future, I will not complain about file sharing” he wrote, “when I make my next picture, I just may upload the movie on the net myself!”. This example once again illustrates what a powerful promotion tool filesharing networks are, especially for independent productions with a small budget.
And they call them criminals....
We are all criminals because the law is wrong, it does not serve the people or the greater good of the community. Simply a group of Media companies with the look on their profit margins.
I would like to start a debate on this and promote a change in the system. Care to comment?
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