tom coombs wrote:
interesting, but would people not try to get around paying? or one
pays and shares the goods.
Yes... a bit like the TV license I suppose. But you can imagine a
situation in which a music content license was as ubiquitous as the TV
license. I mean, if there are about 50 million music listeners in the
UK, a tenner per month each pays for quite a lot of musicians ;-) Okay,
I'm getting a little simplistic and off-topic here!
and do heavy users pay the same as light users ?
another Tom
Tom Kerswill wrote:
Good point! Hopefully that kind of thing would be fairly easy to pick
up though :-)
I suppose it's a bit like chart-rigging or spamming Google or
anything else - a bit of a pain but hopefully possible to get around it.
Tom
David Sargeant wrote:
I like this idea in theory but, and putting data protection aside,
what is
to stop people just cracking the revenue share info (or 50000 'idle'
PCs
playing my songs on loop for that matter) and earning themselves
lots of
money?
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Subject: [backstage] iMP and alternative models to DRM
Hi backstage people,
I'm a bit of a lurker on the list and have been catching up!
Especially on
the iMP and how its DRM has apparently been cracked.
Someone mentioned alternatives to DRM and I just thought I'd throw
something
I've been thinking about into the melting pot. I was thinking of it
in terms
of the music industry mainly, but it would be applicable to any kind of
content.
Rather than stopping people listing to what they want by using DRM, how
about every user paying a license which allows them to listen to any
music,
but then sample / monitor what they listen to. For example - last.fm
tracks
what I am listening to on iTunes, whether it's a CD, a download from
iTunes,
or a bit of music from a website. Taking all the data, you can build a
profile of who's listening to what music. You can then split the
revenue
from the license amongst all content creators, depending on how much
their
content has been listened to. Just like the PRS does with radio
airplay.
Going back to the iMP. As it is really an extension of a radio / tv
player
--- albeit one where the user chooses when and what content they
listen to
--- why not just treat it like any other TV / radio / content channel?
Sample what everyone is listening to and pay royalties based on that?
I know that this is a huge simplification --- and probably licensing
laws
for old content don't allow it --- but surely in the future this is
going to
be the simplest way to do it? Because it does always seem that
people work
out how to crack DRMs eventually...
... even if the "cracking" is as low-tech as simply plugging an mp3
player
into the phono output of your computer while playing a BBC show.
Tom
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