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KaZaa: RIAA, MPAA Stand in the Way of Content and Profit for All
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posted by turmis
on Sunday March 03, @12:28PM
from the get-the-giants-out-of-our-way-and-everyone-will-benefit dept.
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The P2P community is capitalizing on current sentiment that the RIAA and MPAA are standing in the way not only of the widespread availability of digital content that consumers want, but also of the profits that could and should be reaped by everyone involved. After the recent Napster friendly rulings current Peer-to-Peer services are going on the offensive in their fights against the RIAA and the MPAA. Almost a month ago Judge Marilyn Patel questioned the RIAA and MPAA rights to digital files...
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and their tactics fighting Napster. Since then KaZaa and others have been urging Congress to stem the tide of "whack-a-mole" litigation by the recording giants and address the problem at a more basic level by setting up a general use licensing system and encouraging content availability and profitability across the board. One of their claims relates to an argument Morpheus recently made in its pending lawsuit. The idea is that providing a general licensing scheme could open up music content to the masses, provide more revenue to artists and record companies, and provide the consumer demand needed to upgrade American infrastructure for broadband. Sharman Networks, the Australian owners of KaZaa, has also released some harsh criticism of the new "legitimate" music download offerings like Pressplay and Emusic; saying the services are doomed to failure and noting that the content on these sites is subpar because of an unwillingness to cross-license. Read more at
siliconvaley.com and
newsbytes. In related news, the RIAA has captialized on the recent outage of Morpheus as proof that the service can easily be taken down and is controlled centrally by the software's manufacturers. One of the major arguments to this date has been the feasibility of shutting down a pure P2P network.
More on wired.com.
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