The Gophers Hockey team lost at Wisconsin last night. For those of you unaware, they had not lost since the first game of the season (20+ games). A bit disappointing, but let's see how they respond tonight (while many of us will also be watching the Eagles at Saints). Just remember that sometimes things have been going your way for quite awhile...then it shifts against you. How do you get over such adversity?
The Web has sped up the circular flow of commerce and made the world much smaller (consider "The Global Village" theory). As such, laws in one country can be broken in others via the web. Allowing people to download copyrighted material via the web has become a widspread problem. Since the web is international, someone in the US can access information stored in Sweden and walk a tightrope of legality. For example, there is a program for such actions that is similarly named after islands off the Portuguese coast, Azureus.
Then, if you download things from places like mininova, ipodnova, etc. you are breaking US law. But - what if you already own such media files and simply want to access them from the road? You see the slippery slope. It's called piracy - but who is really the pirate? For $10, you see a movie in a theater, of which $8-$9 of those dollars go to the distributor, studio, and producers (eventually leading to Chris Tucker taking home $25 million for Rush Hour 3). Who's the real thief?
This is what gave birth to MySpace, originally designed for music distribution for small bands. You see, someone signs with a label and all music produced with that label is property of that label. Imagine how much music Simon Cowell owns and makes off everyone buying CDs of his Idols (Pop and American). Making money in the music business is about owning the music and the performer. Michael Jackson owns the Beatles music and it's what he's using to pay for his current lifestyle. Andre Young finds and produces music for Marshall Mathers, who then does the same with Curtis Jackson...while Mar. Mathers kicks some $$$ up to Mr. Young. It's very similar to a pyramid scheme, which is technically illegal in the US.
So your $15 pays music labels to then pass along $1-$2 to the performers and/or songwriters. Musicians make more money nowadays playing gigs than selling CDs in stores (an online). In response, many "free agent" musicians signed up for a web-based way of marketing themselves - MySpace.
Then you get YouTube. And have you read the fine print? ANYTHING and EVERYTHING posted on YouTube becomes property of Google (which now owns YouTube). CReation, development, and promotion have nothing to do with ownership anymore.
What's legal and what is illegal? If you download files without paying (the copyrighted owners), you are breaking US law. But how is that different from ripping the same stuff from your own DVDs and CDs? My advice? Don't download it unless you can prove ownership through some sort of legal transaction or provide a commercially produced CD or DVD.
Does this help you Sean?
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4 comments:
Very well put Romo, I like the Azureus program!
greatly put but the program keeps not responding on me i installed the latest version and whenever i open it it doesn't do anything and then i click on something in the window then it says not responding so i dont know we will talk about it on tuesday unless you can walk me through it over this
i agree with josh it is very well stated
Azureus is so cool. I was using utorrent before, which was ok, but this one has many much more features. I like how when your downloading something you can click on the Swarm tab. Fancy stuff!
Question- Has anyone seen the trailer for Blades Of Glory? If you havent check it out. It's so funny!
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