> What scares me is the idea of banning decives or services that "could" > lead someone to infringe on copyright. I am telling you, if we are not > careful services such as Blip, etc will go away because of > legislation. There could be a day when you can't upload a video > because there will be no services left, only those that have > content "legally" provided to them by studios, etc....it can happen...
Having had tons of my own material ripped off and sold over the years, and never seeing a penny of the proceeds, I am simply recognising that piracy, whether I like it or not, is here to stay. Rather than apply the old copyright paradigm to new distributed technology, Mark Pesce's lecture on Piracy Is Good (see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1720068211869162779&q) really opened my eyes to how as a content producer I can monetarise piracy for my own benefit. Check out the lecture, if you haven't seen it, I reckon it's well worth the 62 minutes. I thought he was on to something with his new "business model" for making piracy work for content creators, rather than go the route of yet more and more legislation that at the end of the day is simply a way to have more and more bureaucratic jobsworths justify their existence. Radical stuff that Pesce fellow proposes... is he way of base folks? Robin
