On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 at 01:13:42PM +0000, Peter Brooks wrote:
> I saw this on ORG & got the email yesterday, it's a huge blow to music
> innovation and will only serve to put reliance on music sharing
> networks to discover new music. On a personal note I am unsurprised at
> the attitude of the music licensing industry in this country. The PRS
> have a weighted algorithm and if they had it their way every company
> in the UK would be paying exact fee's for radios in the workplace.
I know what you mean. One of my most favourite films/soundtracks is
something I own only because someone made someone I know a copy,
which I borrowed once. I liked it so much that I was bought the
original DVD for Xmas - which I've watched many times already -
even though it's not even in English!
I think it's only fair to pay people who create things. Penalising
discovery because of a few exploiters only reduces discovery rates
for everyone else, which ultimately reduces sales volumes.
As is often the case, the decent people get penalised because of a
handful of "bad" people, who annoyingly aren't inconvenienced with
the restrictions put in place to control them...!
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for
the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
-- John Maynard Keynes
