This was the best video I’ve seen on your vlog to date. I just don’t understand how the movie industry can get so up in arms about piracy. I personally go to 5-10 movies a summer paying around 6 bucks for each ticket. I go to quite a few during the school year as well. I don’t see why I can’t download maybe one movie a YEAR. On the music side of piracy, I’ve bought numerous CDs after discovering an artist online,downloading a great deal of their songs, and coming to the conclusion that I liked the band and wanted to support them.
I can understand that music piracy could possibly be a threat to some artists because most people don’t buy CDs after downloading the same songs but movie piracy isn’t easy. It takes days to download DVDs via P2P networks and torrents and burning them isn’t always a breeze either. MOST PEOPLE DON’T PIRATE MOVIES. Is the movie industry really losing that much money?
…and for gosh sakes, let me use copyrighted music on my vlog. It makes things hella easier and it’s not like I could afford the royalties anyway so you aren’t losing money.
Thanks again for this video Richard!
Evan (http://e-vlog.blogspot.com)
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Bush administration declared computers to be weapons of mass destruction. Then declare war on computer users. They have already infringed on our rights to the extent of breaking, entering, and eavesdropping without a due process, confiscating private property for public use, not to mention private prisons and torture. If it is OK to randomly stop cars to search for terrorist contraband, then it is a short hop to spot checking homes. Oh, and while their checking, they might as well take a look for drugs, tax evasion, child pornography, guns, multiple wives, illegal immigrant maids and babysitters, and, oh yeah, illegally downloaded songs and movies.
I may have had to much coffee this morning.
Great video Richard.
Thanks for sharing this Richard. It was interesting and thought provoking. I wonder what things will be like in 5 years or 10 years. How will all these talks and ideas flush out? It is an interesting time we are in.
A confounding dilemma for sure, but bright minds are at work with new media distribution and DRM methods that address the problems inherent in the advent of so many new mediums for distribution. The conflict between trying to make money off of a product you’ve produced, and the ease with which that product can be ‘photocopied’ is difficult to deal with. The disparities between value and cost, and between ownership and rights, are becoming deep chasms when it comes to traditional media distribution because of the ease with which it can be bypassed with modern technology.
This is perhaps nothing which hasn’t been said in your video. However, there are several videos available on the ZDNet.com website that discuss new thinking about reasonable methods for satisfying the demands of reaching an audience through multiple mediums of distribution as well as protecting degrees of consumer fair use while implementing intellectual property protection all at the same time.
The dillemma:
http://news.zdnet.com/2036-2_22-6035707.html
Sun’s dream:
http://news.zdnet.com/2036-2_22-6077520.html
Rights based service approach to DRM:
http://news.zdnet.com/2036-2_22-6048947.html
And: DRM Watermarking:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2210
I may or may not be an advocate of everything said… I encourage everyone to check these out. If you had to pick only one, watch the video regarding a Rights based service approach to DRM. It spells doom to Apple’s ITunes Lordship over the Content Creators. Something I think which is appealing to persons who champion the creativity of artists over the bottom-line of Media Conglomerates.
Kudos for the perspective.
Well done in how you pulled together the salient pieces of the conversation around “Darknets.” It’s still hot and heavy every day in the news and most important in our daily lives. We are starting to see the market forces alter the attitude of the traditional media companies to start to explore how they can participate rather than constrain new approaches of interaction with media. There is still a long way to go but when a spark lights up an audience as we are seeing with viral video they wont be far behind. In the mean time the value of what each of us learns as we experiment with new forms of media will continue to challenge the exisitng structure.
Hope to see you soon.
[...] Video from Darknet Panel at SXSW [...]
[...] In 2006 I saw a wonderful panel on “The Future of Darknets” organized by J.D. Lassica, that include a representative from the MPAA, a person whose job is to identify illegal downloaders for prosecution, and others who were advocates for less copyright restrictions, and elimination of DRM. As you might anticipate the panel was well worth my time. I recorded the session, and created a video of clips from the session. (For the record, creating this video and posting it on the web is consistent with a press/videographer agreement I signed with SXSW that allowed me to post short clips of videos from sessions). [...]
[...] In 2006 I saw a wonderful panel on “The Future of Darknets” organized by J.D. Lassica, that included a representative from the MPAA, a person whose job is to identify illegal downloaders for prosecution, and others who were advocates for less copyright restrictions, and elimination of DRM. As you might anticipate the panel was well worth my time. I recorded the session, and created a video of clips from the session. (For the record, creating this video and posting it on the web is consistent with a press/videographer agreement I signed with SXSW that allowed me to post short clips of videos from sessions). [...]