rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO
 ·Charter Pipeline
| Why have ISPs charge it?
If this is such a great deal, why go through the ISP channel? Why wouldn't Internet users simply directly pay the RIAA for their get-out-of-jail-free card?
If I could get all the unencrypted, high quality MP3s I could download for $5/month -- who wouldn't do that?
The question is, however, will the RIAA call off the attack dogs that today try to push fake songs into catalogs in an effort to make it impossible to find a good copy of the song you want? |
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
Premium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·AT&T Yahoo
| Similarly, Hollywood could set up their own torrent site
where you could legally download movies and TV shows,
either for free with ads or paid for without ads. Prices
could be set at a sliding scale, maybe more for most recent
movies and TV (those still on the air or in theaters), less
for those that have already aired or showed.
But charging all the ISP's customers an extortion fee to be
able to legally download is ridiculous.
Yes I am one of those who download music and movies now,
but even I think it is unreasonable for everyone to
subsidize the "pirates" in this manner. This is the wrong
model to use for any compulsory licensing scheme (which in
essence this idea is.)
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ
| reply to rradina
exactly i dont see why the industry keeps refusing to adopt free legal downloads in high quality and without any DRM. first off you could have the free versions have an ad or two(when talking movies). i know for a fact Advertisers would line up to have an exclusive deal for a certain release.
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