Music Copyright and the internets

First, just to start out my blog on a light note, here is a parody of the anti-piracy commercial that is the beginning of a lot of films. It is making fun of the fact that if this film had been pirated, then this message wouldn't be there. It is accusing the film industry of punishing people that actually payed to see the film.

This next video is the one that I will be basing my argument on. It basically says that there needs to be a line drawn on what copyright violations are damaging and which ones are helpful.

I agree with the statements of the both of the speakers. I believe that the law should still stand firmly against those who steal copyrighted work and then turn around and sell it for a profit. Personal use of copyrighted material and remixes of the original work, however, should be considered a public good.

To make all creative properties public goods would solve most of the major problems facing media industries today, but the only way for this to ever happen is by installing a new tax. Money from this tax would be divided amongst artists based on the number of "plays" or "downloads". The government could keep track of this by inserting a "DRM" like script into the code of the file. This script would act like a digital rfid chip and track the number of downloads. The pool of money collected by the tax could then be divided accordingly.

There you have it, the cure for the cancer that the internet has been for the Media Industry.

.. your welcome.