[Gllug] How to report online crime...

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:07:02PM +0100, Dennis Furey wrote:
> If the quality is good, then would it make it all right if everyone in
> your situation sent a donation to the movie studio equal to the
> difference between the "pirate" price and the high street price? That
> way they still get their royalties with no distribution costs, the
> "pirate" is compensated for providing a socially useful service at
> some risk to himself, the customer spends the same total amount as
> usual, and the world is a better place. ;)

The system you're proposing is not unlike "compulsory licensing", and
it's the most obvious way to allow people to do what they want to do
on the Internet (ie. copy stuff) while ensure that artists get paid.

Historically the whole Internet / copying thing isn't without
precedent.  It happened first on radio in the early 20th century.
Radio operators argued that since they had bought the gramophone
record, they ought to be allowed to play it as many times as they
liked (over the radio waves), and the music "industry" fought back.
This was resolved with compulsory licensing and collection societies
such as the PRS in the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_licensing
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/20/future_of_music/

Rich.

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