Interesting principle - P2P-Zone

SJ56 · 17-05-05, 09:24 PM

Nice idea

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...DGM7C907H1.DTL

JackSpratts · 18-05-05, 03:39 PM

good read sj56. nice to see you back.

mandatory payment schemes for artists/government support for the arts has been around since plato or longer and there's a lot to said for it. i'm not sure how far it can go with the record business which seems to reward the packagers in direct relation to how much they rip-off the the creators, but if somehow we could remove media vampires from the equation it might be a piece of the puzzle.

- js.

TankGirl · 18-05-05, 05:50 PM

P2P technology is rapidly creating a decentralized communication infrastructure where everything digital is available for everybody for the flat price of bandwidth. As this is pretty much an ideal storage and distribution system - all costs voluntarily covered by users, no slow or expensive bureaucracy, no centralized authorities in a position to censor or block communications - it will naturally be globally adopted and eventually also legalized under public pressure. A condition where all public content - science, art, entertainment, news - is freely available in an open world library does not mean the end of music, movie, news or publishing businesses. The condition just makes public digital content abundant and cheap, so the content businesses need to sell something more substantial, unique, fresh, interesting or valuable to make their money.

Maybe there is no need for extra compensations for the disappearing distribution profits at all. The transition process to the full-availibility condition will still take years so the content businesses and creative professionals will have time to adapt their dealings and budgets to the new situation. Should it become obvious at some stage that some sort of compensation is needed to prevent mass starvation of artists or an apocalyptic cessation of artistic creativity, I would personally accept a small flat tax on bandwidth, presuming the collected taxes are fairly redistributed to the content creators and producers. The fairest, most democratic way of distributing such a tax is that every taxpayer determines herself who will get her tax money (a task that your media player can make easy or automatical for you).

- tg

17-05-05, 09:24 PM	#1
SJ56 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 20	Interesting principle Nice idea http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...DGM7C907H1.DTL

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18-05-05, 03:39 PM	#2
JackSpratts Join Date: May 2001 Location: New England Posts: 10,017	good read sj56. nice to see you back. mandatory payment schemes for artists/government support for the arts has been around since plato or longer and there's a lot to said for it. i'm not sure how far it can go with the record business which seems to reward the packagers in direct relation to how much they rip-off the the creators, but if somehow we could remove media vampires from the equation it might be a piece of the puzzle. - js.

18-05-05, 05:50 PM	#3
TankGirl Madame Comrade Join Date: May 2000 Location: Area 25 Posts: 5,587	P2P technology is rapidly creating a decentralized communication infrastructure where everything digital is available for everybody for the flat price of bandwidth. As this is pretty much an ideal storage and distribution system - all costs voluntarily covered by users, no slow or expensive bureaucracy, no centralized authorities in a position to censor or block communications - it will naturally be globally adopted and eventually also legalized under public pressure. A condition where all public content - science, art, entertainment, news - is freely available in an open world library does not mean the end of music, movie, news or publishing businesses. The condition just makes public digital content abundant and cheap, so the content businesses need to sell something more substantial, unique, fresh, interesting or valuable to make their money. Maybe there is no need for extra compensations for the disappearing distribution profits at all. The transition process to the full-availibility condition will still take years so the content businesses and creative professionals will have time to adapt their dealings and budgets to the new situation. Should it become obvious at some stage that some sort of compensation is needed to prevent mass starvation of artists or an apocalyptic cessation of artistic creativity, I would personally accept a small flat tax on bandwidth, presuming the collected taxes are fairly redistributed to the content creators and producers. The fairest, most democratic way of distributing such a tax is that every taxpayer determines herself who will get her tax money (a task that your media player can make easy or automatical for you). - tg