We were happy when we heard The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) stopped the futile strategy of suing individuals for file sharing. Unfortunately,the excitement was short-lived as RIAA has come up with an even more ill-conceived strategy - recruiting Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to police file sharing for FREE.
Jerry Scroggin, owner-operator of Bayou Internet and Communications, a small Louisiana ISP, immediately objected this strategy and has asked RIAA to pay for this policing service. Makes perfect business sense. Intelligent packet inspection is neither straightforward nor inexpensive.
We are not even sure how this policing could work in the world of cheap dedicated servers and superfast networked machines. For example, one can run BitTorrent on remote machines and collect whatever files they want. Then they can download all those collected files over SFTP. The ISPs won't even know that copyrighted files are being downloaded.
(Even though proxied connections are slow, one can also use proxy servers such as squid to hide file sharing traffic.)
RIAA, please stop fighting the masses. Instead, allow radio stations and large music sites to stream music online for lower licensing fees and work out a revenue sharing arrangement with them. At least that way you will make money instead of writing big checks to ISPs for their policing service.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
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"RIAA, please stop fighting the masses. Instead, allow radio stations and large music sites to stream music online for lower licensing fees and work out a revenue sharing arrangement with them."
Lots-of-luck - LOL!
In addition to a lack of demand, perhaps this is why CCU has killed about 70 FormatLab stations, while only 7 remain.
This is the same old stuff the RIAA has been trying to do for years! I think it's about time they hire new strategists and figure out REAL solutions to this dilemma. The RIAA's infringement problems have been going on now for almost ten years and has only gotten worse, much worse. They need to change their business model and think of new and FAIR ideas that will bring their customers back to them and away from illegally downloading their works.
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