site with lots of new

If you want to read some incredible articles about the new way this technology is going check out this site

http://www.eff.org

it has lots of info about many laws regarding the new uses of technology and how the old copyright laws do not apply to some of the new forms of technology and are outdated.

Also, to see the pioneer in the p2p industry check out this London based site. Its called Grockster
www.Grockster.com
Grockster gives users similar software, and from there, it disconnects itself from the user, and essentially hardrives are linked and searched and for music, videos, books, pictures etc. There are many reasons this is not illegal, the main reason being there is no centralized database that is available to everyone.

Napster v Grockster v recording industries

in class today a discussion was mentioned about online downloading of music and also the radio. how advertising pays to make it free. Here is a little more insight in an email I sent to a professor regarding the issue and possible future ideas


Being that you are an Englishman...I'm sure you have heard of Grockster, which actually won their case when they were taken to court by the recording industries...P2P sharing is considered legal, mainly because it was not viewed to dilute the market...whereas the old Napster, which had a centralized system was seen to dilute the market. New p2p sharing just provides the software for users to share with each other, then actually cuts itself off from the user. The funny part about this is: the new Napster lets you download all you want, and winamp lets you dub the songs, so they can be kept anyway (I guess that might or might not be legal). Keep this in mind as well, when we read in the papers that a 12 year old was fined $1200 or that a grandma had to pay $15,000, that is actually incorrect. They SETTLED for money, which means the courts never found anything wrong with the activities. The defendants just felt it was cheaper or easier to settle then to drudge through a court trial. Also...today in class you had mentioned that radio is free due to advertising revenue...looking back though, at FM and why radio stations can play songs without infringing on copyrights, it can be mainly based on the fact that the government "wanted" to establish licensing companies that would then charge the radio stations a fee. As you probably know, there are three major licensing companies that accomplish this, and much talk about the internet downloading rage has come down to saying that the same should be done for the internet sites. If you really look back far, the same concerns happened when the player piano was introduced, and there was actually (and still is) and 8cents per song charge for that. There will be a way for this to work out...it will just a few more lawyers to get together I guess.....this isn't a critique of anything...just today discussed a topic that really interests me, and is relevant to class and our lives. Thanks