Spoiler Alert! How Pirates Will Change The Entertainment Industry
I just wrote a new piece for TorrentFreak on where I think the entertainment business will end up because of file sharing. I think the only workable solution, which we are slowly but surely moving towards, is a voluntary collective license for music, and possibly other forms of entertainment and maybe even software too. Consumers and license holders could choose to pay, or not, and it will need to be truly global in scope, and controlled by lots of small companies rather than one large organization. Check it out here.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Hey, really digging the blog and I’ll probably pick up the book. Anyway, Isaw this and thought of yor post. Would be a pretty awesome licensing setup.
http://www.songwriters.ca/studio/proposal.php
January 29th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Thanks Joe. Proposal looks interesting - I think implement something like this would be a good idea, but if it’s going to work, I think it’s going to have to cover more than one country. Check out Bennet Lincoff’s work in this area (pdf) - http://www.bennettlincoff.com/fixing_what_is_badly_broken.pdf