Could peer-to-peer networks, commonly associated as online tools of digital media pirates, turn into an acceptable — and possibly profitable — entertainment conduit? Maybe.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights advocacy group in San Francisco, has proposed a new licensing scheme in which artists and copyright holders are paid, and file-sharing essentially becomes legal.
Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney for the EFF, unveiled the idea at the Music Law Summit West, a conference held by the Future of Music Coalition at Hastings Law School in San Francisco last Wednesday.
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