GrafoDexia

This site is devoted to copyright and issues of 'intellectual property,' particularly the issue's analytical aspects. It also concerns itself with the gap between public perception and the true facts, and with the significant lag time between the coverage on more technical sites and the mainstream press. For site feed, see: http://grafodexia.blogspot.com/atom.xml To see the list of sites monitored to create this site, see: http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=CopyrightJournal

Monday, July 26, 2004

The price of piracy: 691 settlements at $3000 apiece, divided by 60 million file sharers. Expected cost of P2P usage: $0.03. The price of P2P usage for political purposes is, apparently, much higher. Either way, it's getting harder to find filesharers, even as more legitimate uses of P2P emerge.

Real store to support iPod. If a similar "translation" were done to music, Industry would be outraged. iPod in trouble on other fronts as well.

The perils of the limited rights-grant which the RIAA/MPAA try to force Congress to embrace.

Meanwhile, the music industry has been found to be engaged in monopolistic behavior several times, yet they are shirking their obligation in the most recent price-fixing settlement.

Perhaps an overly-optimistic view of music sales websites.

Ted Turner on the reason the Industry is still alive today and hasn't been replaced by more entrepreneurial, innovative companies.

--Ari

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