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WIth the amount of money they've spent on the ill-fated "war on piracy," they could've invented Bittorrent, or at least ran their own for-pay tracker that made
by quoderat 17y ago
WIth the amount of money they've spent on the ill-fated "war on piracy," they could've invented Bittorrent, or at least ran their own for-pay tracker that made the Pirate Bay operation look lame.
But no.
- chris11 17y agoThe legal hassles with running a legal tracker would be horrendous. I think every major contract would have to be renegotiated. How would you divide up royalties for song downloads? And would torrent distribution even be covered in current contract?
- radu_floricica 17y agoAnd yet, on youtube it seems to work. I don't know exactly how widespread it is or what are the sums involved, but there are quite a few ad revenue sharing schemes running. Might be because youtube (and google) are already too big to sue.
- weavejester 17y agoRead through the prosecution's arguments in this case. It's amazing just how little the lawyers and witnesses called by the IFPI seemed to know, even after what must have been months, if not years of preparation. The heads of the recording industry seem to be ignorant of technology to such a degree that they don't understand the whole nature of content distribution is changing. Running their own for-pay tracker would be as alien to them as an assembly line would be to neolithic man.