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I can't wait to get the letter from Eircom stating that the track I downloaded "Sword Heaven - Skinned and Glued" is a copyright track controlled by IRMA and my internet is being cut off.
seriously though, how do you tell what IRMA cover? is this a catch all thing? are the 'ready to die'
demos gonna get me in trouble? is 'ready to die' gonna get me in trouble? this only effects eircom
people at the moment, right?
yup
or is there some thing along the lines of them owning all the connections and the rest just rent off them?
It's one of the main problems I can see with it. Will they send letters that just say you have been caught and that's it or will they actually specify the track? Will it kick in anytime you download any mp3 from mediafire or rapidshare or what. And yes, Ready To Die would get you in trouble.
They piggyback their bb signal through the tv cable.
there's always the seedbox solution... course it'll cost you...
This is total nonsense.
Whenever there are changes to a technology the law has to catch up to try and legislate for it.
For instance, as cars engines grew in size, the speed limit was introduced and subsequently amended.
In the past this has worked fine. The reason being is that changes to technologies took a relatively long time to develop. There were physical realities to deal with. It took time for new models to be built in factories.
The problem with recorded music is that whereas it used to be contained in a physical object (vinyl, cassette, CD) it can now be held in a purely digital form. Essentially music can be reduced to a series of 1's and 0's.
All that Mp3s and other digital formats are is a way of rebuilding these 1's and 0's.
Because the way in which music can now be held (in a digital format) it means changes to this technology can advance at an extraordinarily quick pace. New formats and new ways to avoid legal restrictions can be developed in less than a year.
So if the legislator wants to put a legal framework around music held in a digital format, it has to continually adapt.
My argument is that the law can't adapt quickly enough. It cannot conduct a proper review of the impact of each new law passed because the technology its trying to legislate for changes too quickly.
Therefore recorded music held in a digital format should no longer be considered a commodity that can be bought and sold and a new way of compensating musicians needs to be developed.
Perhaps the closest model for the future of recorded music is the sad, funding-dependent, workshop-running, pleading and dwindling subculture that still writes poetry while dreaming of the infamy of Byron.
gonna quote this one last time then i'll stop, I promise
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gonna quote this one last time then i'll stop, I promise
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