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Techdirt founder Mike Masnick has followed the twists and turns of the digital music debate for more than a decade, offering some of the most prescient and lucid information and arguments on the topic anywhere. Today he tackles growing calls for a voluntary music-licensing scheme, pushed most recently by Warner Music Group to universities, that would basically allow file sharing by having ISPs impose a surcharge on all users to be paid out to copyright holders. (A version of this has been done before with blank media like tape cassettes in some markets, including Canada, but this would be a massive expansion of the idea.)
TechDirt and its; republish on Wired
Really excited to see this getting picked up by Wired, for it puts the discussion one step closer to mainstream media, which in the end is where it needs to head to have more people engage in a public debate at large.
Recently:
- Cory Doctorow
- Gilberto Gil
- Kutiman Rules !
- Online Music – the changing and coverging forces.
- Mike Masnick on Techdirt Nails it !
- Maurice Peterson, Starcatcher at Rumpy’s, Lenox Mass
- The RIAA-Systematic thievery-Simon Napier-Bell
- Suss One and DJ Sematic at The Maritime Hotel
- Paris Texas’ featuring Teki Latex and Devin The Dude
- VHS-Beta-Moving Units-33Hz Live
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