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

[Michel Bauwens]

well, the thing is, there is a difference between perception and reality.
Many artists and creators want to hold to IP, see Marco's reaction, because,
barring alternatives they see working, it's one of the few ways they see
they can get an income; and I also think, from having discussed the issue
with different student groups, that there is still a social consensus that
it's something useful. At the same time, dissatisfaction with the excesses
of the current regime is growing, and also slowly becoming the basis for
social action. So this is something that we can actually win, perhaps not
today, but in a few years. If abolishing totally is advisable, and a social
discussion and consensus acquirses, then it will happen, but that will take
considerably more time,

Michel

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/5/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > freemium and other strategies do sound good, and can be applied to a
> certain
> > extent, but for example Kevin Kelly has revisited his 1,000 true fans
> model
> > with concrete testimonies from artists using it, and the conclusion is,
> it
> > is extraordinarly difficult, it doesn't work for most of those who tried
> it.
> > So it is a minority solution for the moment, not a panacea.
>
> BTW, how does this tie in with what you wrote in a different thread?
>
> "artists and musicians profiting from IP is in the range of 0.ox
> percent, so realy it's not really working for the overall majority of
> them It's currently mostly a winner take all..."
>
> It sounds to me like IP isn't working out so well for the majority of
> artists, either.  And the situation is balanced by Doctorow's
> observation that for the majority of small artists, obscurity is a lot
> bigger concern than "piracy."
>
> At worst, the abolition of IP will simply be a return to the same
> situation we were in in the 19th century, before the rise of the
> record industry, where the vast majority of music was generated on a
> folk model, and the number of people getting a little money on the
> side from performances far exceeded the small number who could get big
> money from the sale of sheet music.
>
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