[advocacy] DRM in OGG - A Proposal

[Daniel James]

> The 'piracy' (unauthorised reproduction of copyrighted material) may
> deprive the rights holder of something, but it is not stealing, because
> stealing is something more specific than getting something without paying
> that due fee

The definition of theft used in the UK is to 'intentionally deprive' someone,
and I guess intentionally depriving an artist of royalties could come under
that definition. I agree it's not the same as stealing actual CD's from the
record label warehouse, and to equate it with murder on the high seas is
clearly laughable. Nevertheless, industrial-scale copyright infringement is
part of organised crime.

> I believe that only a
> special kind of 'piracy' (the kind where the listener copies something that
> they would have bought anyway, and then decides not to buy it) would cause
> large quantities of copies to remain unsold, or bands to be dropped.

It's the recording industry's case that this is hapenning - hard to tell
without research.

> I consider such demo tracks and other *properly* unreleased material to be
> private information. Once it has been heard by the public this is no longer
> true.

Often this kind of material is released by a third party without artist
consent though.

Cheers

Daniel
--- >8 ----
List archives:  http://www.xiph.org/archives/
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'advocacy-request at xiph.org'
containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body.  No subject is needed.
Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.