This article was written by an ex EMI lawyer so its points are more than valid
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=898Many who use P2P are highly resistant to the ingress of commercialization, and it is clear to see where they are coming from. Commercialization is inevitably accompanied by increased regulation. Licenses have to be negotiated at national levels with record and film distributors, costs have to be covered, profits have to be made, local sensitivities and censorship issues have to be addressed and so forth. Increased regulation is seen as a threat to the independence of the net and those who use it. History tells us that once the floodgates of regulation are opened, they are seldom closed.
It certainly seems that the mass acceptance of iTunes and the proliferation of its competitors has played a part in popularizing the concept of downloading music from the Internet. Many people have questioned why they should be expected to buy music they already own on CD or vinyl for the second time, simply so they can play it on their iPod or other players. This appears to be attracting first time users to consider P2P as a viable means of obtaining MP3 copies of the music they already own. Unsurprisingly, neither the MPAA/RIAA nor other copyright enforcers are very keen to disclose the actual figures or admit this is in fact what is happening.
Many valid questions are posed in this article that the industry cannot (or will not ) reply to, regarding your rights, just their own are trumpeted.
Lets take for instance Digital Rights Management that was placed on CD,s by the Cartel, did the price go down ?
After all you had just lost the ability to copy your purchases to your portable music player or listen to it in your car, uses that you had paid for.
A similar story is told of DVD disks that are easily damaged by small scratches, making a backup for an expensive disk is common sense in the computer world.
All this would be a non issue if they accepted damaged media and replaced it at cost price (as opposed to retail rip off price).
It seems that they demand
their rights , but yours can be trampled over with impunity by those whose eyes are full of corporate greed :roll:
