[p2p-research] Fwd: [fcforum] Fw: iPad DRM is a dangerous step backward. Sign the petition!

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Kevin,

I think there is a natural difference in quality which would drive user
choice.

"Illegal" filesharing networks have notorious quality problems (spam, fakes,
phishing, low quality of recordings, damanaged files, traps by recording
industry) which create a higher treshold of effort and enjoyment. So, I'm
assuming that if you have a choice between a free but difficult to get
version, and a very low cost version but that gives you high quality
enhanced quality, would drive a business model. This is for the U.S. where
taxation is probably anathema, and only voluntary universal licensing would
be applied.

But in Europe where we do not have this issue, all music would be freely
available over various networks, and the tax fund would go to the artists.

I really don't see where the problem is. Music would be universally
available, and artists would get an income, and costs would be so
distributed, as to be almost 'unfelt'. It's the same rationale as for the
tobin tax, a micro tax on transactions, which nobody would really feel but
would nevertheless bring substantial funding that could even replace labour
tax (proposals of boutang in france, who has made the calculations).

Please note that many european artists and parties like the greens support
this approach.

Michel

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/5/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > to make sure I'm not understood, what I'm advocating is not IP
> repression,
> > but to have the ability to have systems that people could subscribe to
> (for
> > the U.S. for example), and the income would go to the artists; or
> > alternatively the european way, a very modest tax (think tobin tax),
> could
> > be levied on digital players, and the income would again go to the
> artists.
> > In the latter case, music could be totally free.
>
> Thanks for the explanation, Michel.  But I don't see how the system
> could work without either some sort of state action to discourage the
> purchase of unauthorized copies, or to regulate and license the sale
> of players subject to oversight by the taxing authorities.  Not but
> that this would be vastly superior to DRM/DMCA, of course.
>
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