longerlife2
July 29th, 2003, 07:28 PM
Doing away with P2P will stop people from discovering new music.
I love the way I can audition 'random' music based on a word that pops into my head (I have discovered many jems this way) it is fun and it is enlightening (I would NEVER have listened to this music through any other means).
The problem is of course where the revenue comes from if people refuse to pay for the tracks they listen to often (nobody should care if people listen to some tracks two or three times for free). To my mind they will have to:
a) develop a format that expires itself after a few plays securely (not easy given the proliferation of hackers), unless an easy one click opt in purchase is made (pretty tough but do-able)
and (this is the tricky bit)
b) they get rid of the mp3 file sharing. A nearly impossible task at the moment unless they force ISP's and telecoms companies to block the files from being transferred over the internet, they'd have to scan all files over a certain size for mp3 encoding (otherwise people would just change the file extensions at either end) not to mention the other encoding formats like ogg that are doing the rounds... eek
In an ideal world we would start again with the internet, charge a fixed fee for access per month, then aportion a percentage of the fee to be split amongst the sites we visit and the music we download (the more we listen to stuff the more money they get, the more we visit a site and spend time there the more money they get...) all automatic and invisible... This would revitalise the internet, video and music media and reward people for producing stuff people enjoy (it might be sensible to exclude porn!)... anyway what do you think??
I love the way I can audition 'random' music based on a word that pops into my head (I have discovered many jems this way) it is fun and it is enlightening (I would NEVER have listened to this music through any other means).
The problem is of course where the revenue comes from if people refuse to pay for the tracks they listen to often (nobody should care if people listen to some tracks two or three times for free). To my mind they will have to:
a) develop a format that expires itself after a few plays securely (not easy given the proliferation of hackers), unless an easy one click opt in purchase is made (pretty tough but do-able)
and (this is the tricky bit)
b) they get rid of the mp3 file sharing. A nearly impossible task at the moment unless they force ISP's and telecoms companies to block the files from being transferred over the internet, they'd have to scan all files over a certain size for mp3 encoding (otherwise people would just change the file extensions at either end) not to mention the other encoding formats like ogg that are doing the rounds... eek
In an ideal world we would start again with the internet, charge a fixed fee for access per month, then aportion a percentage of the fee to be split amongst the sites we visit and the music we download (the more we listen to stuff the more money they get, the more we visit a site and spend time there the more money they get...) all automatic and invisible... This would revitalise the internet, video and music media and reward people for producing stuff people enjoy (it might be sensible to exclude porn!)... anyway what do you think??