From Betamax to Kazaa: The Real War Over Piracy

Fortune heeft een interessant artikel over de filesharing controverse. Filesharing wordt vergeleken met de videorecorder. De schrijver van het stuk oppert dat het rechtvaardig is dat de muziekindustrie meedeelt in de opbrengsten die direct of indirect van muziek worden gemaakt. “The notion that copyright holders might be entitled to any degree of control over the technologies that purvey their works now seems quite foreign to American ears—and certainly unnecessary in the VCR context. But it is the conspicuously missing ingredient in discussions of file sharing. The value of today’s commercial P2P technologies stems almost entirely from copyrighted works, yet copyright holders have lost any say in how those technologies can be used.” Lees hier het artikel.