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Originally Posted by drBill  Guys,
reportedly, Piratebay is making $100,000 per HOUR on their banner ads. Of which, 0.00% is going back to artists.
BUT, maybe all is not lost.
Some new technology (or maybe not so new, just re-directed) may be on our side for once.
A note from composer/anti-piracy activist Richard Gibbs: Alrighty guys and gals. I realize this is a moribund thread, but you all really really need to check this out - Day of Sharing Forum • Information =79
The answer to our woes has been found.
From Richards blog: I have seen the beginning of the end of this problem! I just came from meeting with Tommy Funderburk (look him up on wikipedia if you like), who is working with a new company named payartists.com.
This is brilliant. They have the technology, ironclad, 100% accurate, to determine where any copyright has been illegally downloaded. They can actually trace the computer used to within two feet of its physical location on Googleearth - no lie. I have seen it in action. Right now they are testing the waters by tracking the catalog of Frank Zappa online. They have stats showing that Frank Zappa songs are being illegally downloaded at the rate of 96,000 times per day worldwide! That's a lot of Peaches en Regalia flying around the net. And Zappa fans, while they tend to be passionate about Frank, are not exactly legion, especially when compared to, say, Matchbox 20 (their number is 1.8 million illegal downloads daily!). Payartists sends a notice instantly to the downloaders, stating that the Zappa estate would like to retain the fan, but wants the downloader to realize that what they have just participated in is illegal copyright infringement. The costs of running this system are tremendous (as one could imagine), so they go on to say in the notice that they will basically offer amnesty to the offender if said offender will remit a payment of $10 per downloaded song, in return for immunity from prosecution - which could run up fines of up to $150,000 per infringement.
Now it sounds like this could be seen as vilifying the fans, but clearly this could be used in an extremely positive fashion. There are a plethora of possible applications for this technology, all very positive for the artists. Very empowering. Artists can reverse the flow thru the same system, making tracks available to proven fans on a direct buy basis - no record company needed. The Zappa model is a perfect test case because Frank owned his own material, lock, stock, and barrel - 100% of his publishing and masters. More to come as I delve further into this, but for the first time I am very heartened by the hope this company offers to creators.
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I'm a bit confused here, maybe I'm missing something? The torrent sites make $2.4Million a day and the software is going to go after teenagers (I highly doubt $150/hr lawyer dad is downloading a major percentage of the stuff out there)? This somehow seems counter intuitive. Add that to the fact how would you prosecute everyone effectively and evenly? I would think you would just end up making examples out of a few, as has already been the case. No one came out ahead, it didn't dent a thing and built more resentment and likely more justification in the minds of people
sticking it to the man who fines single moms for stealing what exactly?
I would like to be hopeful, but we need a cultural sea change in the way we view the value of information.
I get his point, but it's silly. Stealing a snickers bar and downloading a Frank Zappa song aren't the same thing in 99% of the peoples' minds. I think 99% of the people who download a Zappa mp3 wouldn't steal a Zappa CD if the stores took their security systems offline.
Why?
I don't have a clear answer, but this guy thinks it has to do with the tangibility of the product in question. Quite brilliant actually.
Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code | Video on TED.com Quote:
And more importantly, the site that may set the pendulum swing back our direction:
https://www.payartists.com/
Do you think they have the juice to turn things around in this whacky downward spiral???
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I doubt it, the reform really has to come from the users, Just Say No to Crack(s).
Look how well that's working...
Still I'm hopeful people will come around.