Association of Independent Music (AIM) head also wants ISPs to be pressured into helping fight illegal file-sharing.
Alison Wenham, chairman of the Association of Independent Music (AIM), is criticizing music blogs for linking to copyrighted material and thinks legislation is needed to discourage the practice.
“The fundamentals of copyright are pretty well breached by the ability to move material around seamlessly and undetectably,” says Wenham. “Blogs, therefore, form a growing problem because they are not what one would strictly call or refer to as file-sharing.”
She says that individually they may pose no threat as it were, but taken together as a whole it is similar to any other P2P network or service.
“A growing number of individuals pop links onto their blogs either as a form of flattery or as information exchange,” she adds. “But when a few hundred or a few thousand people do that then the scale of the problem is far more similar than a file-sharing service.”
She’d also like to see ISPs pressured into helping fight the problem of illegal file-sharing.
Stay tuned.
t will be the start of commercializing what we can and cant see. Thankfully the open source community is way ahead on the development of encrypted services to bypass blocked sites, and to host sites on a hidden swarm of computers.
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These pigs still aint figured out the digital age yet have they! lol
down with there empire!
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I think that most people are on the net to learn things and talk to their friends. Why don’t the music companies just compete head to head with iTunes and bloggers and make a mega site with everything, artist contact and all of the information you would ever want about a band? If they would have started already, their site could have been the IMDB or Wikipedia for music, but no, they just want stop us from listening and hope that the money will come back.
Right now everyone is just trying to get more internet speed, and we’re paying good money for it, so that’s a form of protection. Once there’s lots of competition to give the customer the highest speed for the lowest cost and the ISP profit margin is low, then they might start talking to music companies. Hopefully by then big music will be burnt out and not so mean.
Jordan has it, blogs are like the new radio, but better. We don’t have to deal with charts and Payola, much better.
I can’t tell you how much music I’ve discovered, and then later bought, from music blogs. If the music industry wants to lose that exposure, then that’s their loss.
They can keep pushing all they want but there is currently no economic incentive for ISP’s to help them. Once there is that is when society needs to worry, it will be the start of commercializing what we can and cant see. Thankfully the open source community is way ahead on the development of encrypted services to bypass blocked sites, and to host sites on a hidden swarm of computers. If people are pressured enough they will simply move to these networks.
..and what kind of odd contraption is in that picture, it looks like a mix between a computer and a cash register!
I hope they don’t regulate them, because blogs are a great way to learn about music. I love to read someone’s experience with hearing some song or band for the first time and how it affected them. Really, the best music blogs are are music fans wanting to tell the world about their favorite songs, saying ‘Hey listen to this!’
…and some people still think I’m insane in thinking that the copyright lobby wants ISPs to regulate thought.