Comments | robin_d_laws: P2P Licensing

robin_d_laws

P2P Licensing

Oct 17, 2006 09:30

This NOW magazine article is extremely optimistic about the Digital Music Exchange, a proposal to legalize P2P music file sharing by charging a universal license fee for it. The DMX software supposedly logs not only downloads of a song, but the number of plays, and can even tell if it gets burned to CD. Pieces of the compensation pie are doled out ( Read more... )

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lead_sponge October 17 2006, 17:46:45 UTC

I have never gotten the idea of pirating a book. Books aren't that expensive and I hate reading on a computer screen. After you print the thing out, you might have well have bought it when you consider the time and materials.

As to music and movies, I have pirated some TV shows here and there, but only because when I tried to watch them legally there was something wrong with the broadcast. The only time I will pirate music is when I can't seem to find it.