Re: [ARSCLIST] Record Business vs. Music Business: The Shakeout Continues.

[Karl Miller <karl.miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let me know how much money you would need to start up such a service. Assuming such a site would be subject to the European copyrights, I have plenty of broadcast material, still covered by US copyrights, that I would be happy to make available at no charge.
   
  Karl

D P Ingram <darren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  On 16 maj 2007, at 19.16, Karl Miller wrote:

Could there be scope for some form of Bittorrent server/service for 
clearly out of copyright material. Maybe a small fee for membership 
to cover bandwidth/hosting and then maybe a certain number of members 
agree to host a certain amount of tracks. After the initial "jump" 
factor when people want to grab the material, I suspect it would calm 
down unless new members come in, thus reducing overall bandwidth. I 
could perhaps assist with this in conjunction with my fall database 
project but it would certainly crave some additional resource and 
assistance as I've never been an administrator on a Bittorrent service.

But the differing "copyright" laws might need to be considered as well.

Darren

> Don Cox wrote:
>
> I wrote:
> *** what need would a person have to maintain their own 
> collection or file, whether it be audio or anything else? assuming 
> that we had a good navigation tool for the information stream and 
> low cost access.
>
> Don replies:
>
> ***Reliability.
>
> ***I have too many experiences of servers failing to want to rely 
> on some company to store the music I want to listen to. And what 
> happens when they decide to clear out all the recordings that 
> "nobody" (ie you and I) listens to?
>
> I would agree and had't really thought about that aspect. So, I 
> wonder, what are we doing by placing so much trust in google? It 
> seems to me to be very dangerous.
>
> Karl
>
>



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