Comments for Compatible World http://jeremy1.wordpress.com convergence requires a rare commodity - compatibility - Jeremy Silver investigates Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:19:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on It’s Katrina! Oops sorry Karina! by Phil http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/2006/03/21/its-katrina/#comment-11428 Phil Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:19:42 +0000 http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/secret-page/#comment-11428 Remember Karina? The videmic is coming...Please Help us get the word out! Here's what it's all about: "Hosted by Karina Stenquist of Mobuzz fame, Videmic takes an irreverent quirky look at Web TV and viral videos. Coming November 2009." for more info, check out our facebook group: www.facebook.com/videmic Remember Karina? The videmic is coming…Please Help us get the word out! Here’s what it’s all about:

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]]> Comment on PRS and PPL must merge and license One Digital Right for Music by Phonoblog » Blog Archive » Por uma Licença Digital Única para a Música http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/prs-and-ppl-must-merge-and-license-one-digital-right-for-music/#comment-11417 Phonoblog » Blog Archive » Por uma Licença Digital Única para a Música Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:15:26 +0000 http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/?p=399#comment-11417 [...] Original: PRS and PPL must merge and license One Digital Right for Music Autor: Jeremy Silver Tradução: Phonobase Music Services (OBS: Sugestões para aperfeiçoar a [...] [...] Original: PRS and PPL must merge and license One Digital Right for Music Autor: Jeremy Silver Tradução: Phonobase Music Services (OBS: Sugestões para aperfeiçoar a [...]

]]> Comment on PRS and PPL must merge and license One Digital Right for Music by Juliano Polimeno http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/prs-and-ppl-must-merge-and-license-one-digital-right-for-music/#comment-11416 Juliano Polimeno Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:55:48 +0000 http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/?p=399#comment-11416 Hi Jeremy, i'm translating this article to portuguese and i want to post it in my company blog. Any problems with that? Thanks! Hi Jeremy,

i’m translating this article to portuguese and i want to post it in my company blog. Any problems with that?

Thanks!

]]> Comment on PRS and PPL must merge and license One Digital Right for Music by Curious Tribe – "What is needed now is to create the new music industry – the big bang for music – akin to when the…" http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/prs-and-ppl-must-merge-and-license-one-digital-right-for-music/#comment-11407 Curious Tribe – "What is needed now is to create the new music industry – the big bang for music – akin to when the…" Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:33:08 +0000 http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/?p=399#comment-11407 [...] the 21st Century that music’s customers – consumers and businesses could understand.” – PRS and PPL must merge and license One Digital Right for Music (via [...] [...] the 21st Century that music’s customers – consumers and businesses could understand.” – PRS and PPL must merge and license One Digital Right for Music (via [...]

]]> Comment on File-sharing, artists and the egregious offenders by Lily Allen and the Arctic Monkeys: the bond http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/file-sharing-artists-and-egregious-offenders/#comment-11366 Lily Allen and the Arctic Monkeys: the bond Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:40:00 +0000 http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/?p=387#comment-11366 [...] Compatible World, “The new proposal from Lord Peter Mandelson for the UK to adopt a policy of broadband [...] [...] Compatible World, “The new proposal from Lord Peter Mandelson for the UK to adopt a policy of broadband [...]

]]> Comment on File-sharing, artists and the egregious offenders by björn http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/file-sharing-artists-and-egregious-offenders/#comment-11364 björn Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:52:45 +0000 http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/?p=387#comment-11364 Thank you very much for this background information - appreciate this transparency. Regarding this FAC’s vote for three strikes: <strong>I don’t think that changing the punishment for repeated filesharing from cutting off pirates completely to significantly reducing their bandwidth helps anybody. This will piss off as many people as a complete cut-off would do and IMHO it won’t generate any additional cent in revenue.</strong> It will piss off the same amount of people, because the reason many people are against three strikes is not the punishment in itself. It’s the actions that need to be undertaken by ISPs and/or other organizations to enforce such a law. To enforce three strikes you have probably 2 options: 1) The ISPs (or whoever) controls each data-package that is sent through their lines. This means “goodbye net-neutrality”. This opens completely new ways to monitor and control the public. This is what makes people going crazy when they hear about three strikes. Not that someone might be cut off from the net. 2) The second option would be to keep net neutrality (meaning ISPs don’t check data-packages) but to enforce three strikes just like copyright infringements are enforced right now in the net. That means get some peoples IP from a company monitoring filesharing networks (there are plenty of them and they are making good money from doing that), go to your lawyer (ditto) and take them to the court, cut them off. We all know how efficient this system works. It’s in place ever since Napster. It will not generate a single cent in revenue, as I doubt that those people who persistently download illegal files will start buying more because they are threatened from three strikes. Actually there is a study stating that <a href="http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/04/study-pirates-buy-tons-more-music-than-average-folks.ars" rel="nofollow">P2P user buy ten times more music than non-P2P users</a>. Crazy, hm? OK if you try hard you can find studies “proving” anything and I am not saying that P2P filesharing is the greatest marketing tool ever. I belief though, that people buy the music they love because they decide to do so deliberately BECAUSE OF THEIR RELATION TO THE ARTIST. Doesn’t matter if they are pirates or not. Three strikes will not let people love more music. So why should they buy more? On top of this illegal downloads from the net is merely one technical solution for swapping digital content. In just a couple of years you’ll be able to exchange your whole music library you carry around on your iPod with just anybody on the subway via WiFi or Bluetooth. 10GB flash-memories will cost only a couple of dollars. Filesharing will then take place on a regular table. No way to monitor that! Long story short: three strikes, no matter what punishment, won’t help musicians at all – it will only criminalize and piss of fans. I would really love to see more actions to be taken towards the development of new business models. Don’t wait for the majors to get in there to develop models that allow them to transfer the power they had/have over content, talent and fans they from the analogous world to the digital one. The internet gives featured artists and their fans plenty of possibilities to create fair, sustainable and profitable business models together. Those models should monetize the relationships between artists and fans. And they should monetize the value fans perceive in sharing and remixing as this is where our world is heading to – <a href="http://creativecommons.org/videos/a-shared-culture" rel="nofollow">a shared culture</a>. Thank you very much for this background information – appreciate this transparency.
Regarding this FAC’s vote for three strikes:
I don’t think that changing the punishment for repeated filesharing from cutting off pirates completely to significantly reducing their bandwidth helps anybody. This will piss off as many people as a complete cut-off would do and IMHO it won’t generate any additional cent in revenue.
It will piss off the same amount of people, because the reason many people are against three strikes is not the punishment in itself. It’s the actions that need to be undertaken by ISPs and/or other organizations to enforce such a law. To enforce three strikes you have probably 2 options:
1) The ISPs (or whoever) controls each data-package that is sent through their lines. This means “goodbye net-neutrality”. This opens completely new ways to monitor and control the public. This is what makes people going crazy when they hear about three strikes. Not that someone might be cut off from the net.
2) The second option would be to keep net neutrality (meaning ISPs don’t check data-packages) but to enforce three strikes just like copyright infringements are enforced right now in the net. That means get some peoples IP from a company monitoring filesharing networks (there are plenty of them and they are making good money from doing that), go to your lawyer (ditto) and take them to the court, cut them off. We all know how efficient this system works. It’s in place ever since Napster.
It will not generate a single cent in revenue, as I doubt that those people who persistently download illegal files will start buying more because they are threatened from three strikes. Actually there is a study stating that P2P user buy ten times more music than non-P2P users. Crazy, hm? OK if you try hard you can find studies “proving” anything and I am not saying that P2P filesharing is the greatest marketing tool ever. I belief though, that people buy the music they love because they decide to do so deliberately BECAUSE OF THEIR RELATION TO THE ARTIST. Doesn’t matter if they are pirates or not. Three strikes will not let people love more music. So why should they buy more?
On top of this illegal downloads from the net is merely one technical solution for swapping digital content. In just a couple of years you’ll be able to exchange your whole music library you carry around on your iPod with just anybody on the subway via WiFi or Bluetooth. 10GB flash-memories will cost only a couple of dollars. Filesharing will then take place on a regular table. No way to monitor that!

Long story short: three strikes, no matter what punishment, won’t help musicians at all – it will only criminalize and piss of fans. I would really love to see more actions to be taken towards the development of new business models. Don’t wait for the majors to get in there to develop models that allow them to transfer the power they had/have over content, talent and fans they from the analogous world to the digital one. The internet gives featured artists and their fans plenty of possibilities to create fair, sustainable and profitable business models together. Those models should monetize the relationships between artists and fans. And they should monetize the value fans perceive in sharing and remixing as this is where our world is heading to – a shared culture.

]]> Comment on Update on Featured Artists Coalition on the MIDEM blog by Wedding Photographer Essex http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/update-on-featured-artists-coalition-on-the-midem-blog/#comment-11346 Wedding Photographer Essex Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:45:11 +0000 http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/?p=385#comment-11346 A very interesting read, well put. A very interesting read, well put.

]]> Comment on Quotes from TED Global 2009 – Oxford, England by Rick van der Pluijm http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/ted-global-2009-oxford-england/#comment-11171 Rick van der Pluijm Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:21:17 +0000 http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/?p=321#comment-11171 Fantastic quotes! Are you feeling the TED Crash? It was great meeting you. Are you going to TEDGlobal 2010? With kind regards, Rick Fantastic quotes!

Are you feeling the TED Crash?

It was great meeting you. Are you going to TEDGlobal 2010?

With kind regards,

Rick

]]> Comment on Quotes from TED Global 2009 – Oxford, England by Laurent Haug’s blog » Blog Archive » No is a question http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/ted-global-2009-oxford-england/#comment-11169 Laurent Haug’s blog » Blog Archive » No is a question Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:34:08 +0000 http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/?p=321#comment-11169 [...] For more TED Global quotes check Jeremy Silver’s compilation. [...] [...] For more TED Global quotes check Jeremy Silver’s compilation. [...]

]]> Comment on Piracy, Pirate Bay and the Pirates’ Pirate by JeremyS http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/piracy-pirate-bay-and-the-pirates-pirate/#comment-11149 JeremyS Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:48:17 +0000 http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/?p=312#comment-11149 Hi Carl, Yes - I agree. You're right - there are a variety of folk who could subsidise the experience: advertisers, network operators or ISPs are the two most frequently cited. Virgin Media has just announced its intention to charge a user a monthly subscription to a similar kind of service - so in theory - a feels like free experience could be maintained and the brand values sustained... Hi Carl,

Yes – I agree. You’re right – there are a variety of folk who could subsidise the experience: advertisers, network operators or ISPs are the two most frequently cited. Virgin Media has just announced its intention to charge a user a monthly subscription to a similar kind of service – so in theory – a feels like free experience could be maintained and the brand values sustained…

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