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Here’s my new Business Model: Assume my Customer is a Thief
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| How many companies survive using a long-term strategy that assumes their
| customers will steal their product? Only one group I know of seems to have
| turned this into their primary business model. But can they actually make
| money from it?
|
| A recent case in the UK highlighted an interesting problem. If you play a
| radio for your own benefit and someone else can hear it, you may-well be
| breaking the law.
|
| The nub of the problem is this – the people at the centre of the issue are
| mechanics – they play the radio loud enough to hear above their work noise.
|
| Unfortunately, this means that others (customers, passers-by) can also hear
| it. This according to the Performing Rights Society (PRS)
| constitutes “broadcast.”
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18129/1054/
Three afterthoughts: OpenSolaris, XP SP3, taxing MP3 players
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| One more country believes that you're guilty even before you ever thought of
| the possibility of doing something bad: Japan to tax MP3 players. I could
| never understand how so many modern countries, with allegedly democratic
| judicial systems, can pass legislation that criminalize in block all the
| buyers of blank media and of media players, thus mass-punishing people who
| were never proved to have committed any crime or infraction!
|
| I suggest to the Japanese and to the other countries with similar legislation
| to broaden the use of this "judiciary innovation": as long as you can't find
| all the copyright violators, so you just punish everybody, why not doing the
| same judgment for all the other crimes? Therefore, any citizen reaching 18
| years of age should pass one month in jail, just to make the
| punishment "democratic". Subsequently, the police should stop finding who the
| real killers and rapers are, because punishment has been applied.
|
| [...]
|
| This reminds me of an antique joke. A young lady is caught by a lake guard
| for having a fishing rod in hands. "Lady, the fishing is forbidden in this
| area! I'll have to fine you for that." "Sir, but I wasn't fishing, I was just
| carrying a rod with me!" "How would I know if you were fishing or not? You
| have all the necessary equipment!" "Well, then I should accuse you for having
| raped me!" "Lady, you're nuts? I haven't done such a thing!" "Maybe you
| didn't, but you have all the necessary equipment!"
|
| We all have media players and blank media, so we're criminals and we have to
| pay for that, right?
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/05/08/11/08/40-three-afterthoughts
Microsoft is part of this initiative to assume everyone's a criminal (details
below).
Yesterday:
Japan to tax MP3 players
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| According to a report in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, Japan's Agency for
| Cultural Affairs wants to force MP3 player manufacturers to pay a royalty
| charge to copyright holders that may have lost out as a result of illegally
| recorded content.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/07/ipod_tax_japan/
Microsoft May Build a Copyright Cop Into Every Zune
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| If you like to download the latest episodes of “Heroes” or other NBC shows
| from BitTorrent, maybe you shouldn’t buy a Microsoft Zune to watch them on.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/microsoft-may-build-a-copyright-cop-into-every-zune/index.html?ref=technology
Recent:
UK music industry pines for the good old days, seeks an iPod tax
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| But that's different from what the UK's music industry is demanding. I
| happily pay Apple every time I download a song from iTunes. EMI and crew get
| a piece of that $.99 fee to cover their costs of discovering and marketing
| artists.
|
| What I'm not going to pay is for the right to move that song to my computer,
| or to my phone, or wherever, just as I never had to pay to move a song from
| vinyl to cassette tape. The music industry incurs no cost in that transfer,
| and offers me no help in facilitating it. Why should it get paid for that
| transfer?
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9924262-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Copyright cops demand Ipod tax
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| British legal eagles have been trying to unshackle the UK from a law which
| makes a criminal out of you every time you copy one of your own CDs to your
| mp3 player for some time now, but the Music Business Group (MBG) says it
| won't support the change in legislation unless manufacturers impose the tax.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/17/ippod-tax
EFF: Microsoft betrayed MSN Music customers
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Microsoft has "betrayed" MSN
| Music customers and wants the company to make things right by issuing an
| apology, refunds, and eliminate digital rights management technology from the
| Zune music player.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9931304-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Related:
Music industry meeting could change the Zune
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| Bryan Lee, corporate vice present for Microsoft's entertainment
| business, told me today that the meeting was set up as part of the
| deal struck between Microsoft and music business honchos, who are
| always wary of piracy... The meeting was supposed to take place "some
| time after the holidays," he said. It also talks about the future
| of the zune.
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http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2007/01/music_industry_meeting_could_change_the_zune.html
http://tinyurl.com/y7z5wl
A Legitimate Reason to Hate the Zune (And Microsoft Too)
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| Here's the situation: Microsoft has agreed to pay a portion of
| the profits from the sales of the Zune to a record company
| (Universal) because the Zune will undoubtedly be used to
| store unpurchased songs.
|
| [...]
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| Here it is important to remember a few simple things. The
| money goes to the Universal, not to the artists.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft's move sets a bad precedent and turns all consumers into
| thieves without evidence.
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http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/a-legitimate-reason-to-hate-the-zune-and-microsoft-too/
Universal to seek money for each iPod sold
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| "It would be a nice idea. We have a negotiation coming up not too
| far. I don't see why we wouldn't do that... but maybe not in the
| same way," Morris said. His "same way" comment is a reference tot
| he Zune, which Universal already gets $1 from after signing a deal
| with Microsoft.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061128-8309.html
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