a Call out to Artists

I don't think any signed recording artist is going to ask their label to stop trying to elimate a big source of revenue loss.

File-sharing is not a right or a privelege.

 

I dont understand why they are going avter the users of the P2P sites and not the owners of those sites. Please clue me in on that business.


Mike

 

Because P2P isn't expressly made to swap copyrighted material, the user agreement most people just click "Yes, I agree" makes the user, and the user only responsible for any and all copyright infringments heretofore.

Basically, because the P2P's tell you that it's illegal, if you do it anyway (as most do), it's not their problem, it's yours.

That's why they can't, and because the P2P sites aren't facillitating the breach (like Napster did with it's central server), so again, it's not THEIR fault if you go and break the law using their software.

For all intents and purposes, Kazaa, I-Mesh, ect. can say it's for swapping home movies or art or non copyrighted MP3s. Which is true, in the legal sense. In the real world, they are havens for looooooots of piracy, but thems is the breaks.

 

Thanks for the education.



Mike

 

From what I understand about Napster they just closed it down...why can't they do it with these other ones, or they can but they want to discourage any other programs like it from being made?

 

Napster wasn't Peer to Peer. All the traffic went through a central server. There was a brain/headquarters TO shut down with Napster. P2P sharing, you link direcly to other computers via the program (Kazaa, I-Mesh, WinMX, ect.)

They can't shut it down, because there is no place to shut it down; it's contained entirely on the user's computer. There's nobody to pull the plug on, save the user.

 

That explains it, thanks Brendan.

 

In the long run, I dont think most of them care about that as long as they get their money.