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Jamie Cullum: File-Sharing is OK
At a very young age – 30 years old, Jamie Cullum has become a very acclaimed name in contemporary jazz music who already has released five studio albums. The latest one, entitled “Pursuit”, came out at the beginning of November and according to some estimations the artist lost around 60,000 sales of the album because of illegal file sharing. That hasn’t made Cullum change his attitude towards file sharing which is seen as something natural with both upsides and downsides.
Continue reading »“Three Strikes” Law Not Enough, South Korean P2P Sites Forced to Filter
Korean Film Producers Association plans a new crackdown against p2p file sharing using a digital filtering system that it wants all p2p sites to implement or else face “severe measures”. Now doubt about it, after gaining a bad rep for being the first country to enforce the “three strikes” model for repeat copyright infringers, South Korea is determined to maintain it as a press release reveals: “From now on, the failure to install the software will be taken as an offense against consumers and copyright holders. We will seek stern legal measures.” A network of 78 Korean P2P sites, accounting for about 90% of the local online movie downloading sources, have already complied with the request to install the software which identifies copyrighted works on the Web using an audio encoding system.
Continue reading »Movies On-Demand Services: A Model to Follow
Those who failed to grasp the idea that P2P brought along more than an easy way for people to violate copyright laws and that behind the phenomenon lies the wish of the music or movie consumer to set himself or herself free from any time or location limitations are on a very wrong course. It’s enough to see what the music industry has obtained with its sue-everyone policy to figure out that piracy will not stop and, moreover, it should be taken into consideration with regard to how things should change to give consumers what they actually try to get by themselves via p2p file sharing networks. If movie industry keeps on following the same path as the recording industry there can be no bright future for it.
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