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HADOPI - Maintenant on fait quoi?
Bien sur, on continue a luter!
D'abord, le processus n'est pas encore fini... et il reste de nombreuses etapes. C'est clair que cette loi est mauvaise. Elle ignore une bonne partie des mecanismes existants de telechargements et de partages. Elle oublie, de plus, que la plus part des outils P2P modernes sont en train de recevoir (ou ont deja recu) des fonctionallites de dissimulation (cryptographie) et d'anomymisation (Tor, ou IP2)...
De plus, elle stigmatise un protocole (BitTorrent) qui a des utilisations tout a fait legitimes par l'industrie (Sun Microsystems met a disposition ses logiciels OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org via BitTorrent pour realiser des economies majeures de bande passante).
Enfin, elle place la France en porte-a-faux avec la legislation europeenne. A ce sujet, je me demande si il ne serait pas possible a une association, disons, par exemple, l'APRIL (Frederic, tu lis ceci?) de mettre en place une structure (des avocats, du conseil, peut-etre meme du financement) pour qu'un internaute "puni" par l'HADOPI puisse simplement remplir un formulaire et se voir mis a disposition une assistance et une procedure simplifiee pour porter sa plainte directement aux autorites europeennes...
Alors? Quelle sera la prochaine etape pour combattre cette loi inutile, retrograde, archaique, et injuste? 
Posted at 04:21PM May 13, 2009 by gravax in Music | Comments[0]
Is it time for the music and movie industries to change?
Or more importantly, are they willing to change and adapt? In the last
few years, yet another revolution has come. After the radio which
threatened to make concerts obsolete, after the cassette which
threatened to make vinyls obsolete (well, vinyls have become obsolete,
but because they have been replaced by CDs)... now comes the
peer-to-peer file sharing which is scaring the music and movie
industries. They are terrified as they feel that they are losing
revenue to mass exchange of copyrighted material.
In a way, they are right... but more importantly, they are losing
control. Instead of being able to enforce a select few means of
distributing (i.e. generating revenue from) artist creations, they are
now at a point where this material gets spread out without any form of
control from them... and without any revenue.
So the media industry is fighting back. They would want to prevent
people form sharing files. This is a natural way to think... but
unfortunately it is flawed. Trying to solve a society problem through
technology can't work.
What the media industry needs is to find new ways to live off of the
artists' productions. In fact, the way it works is that artists need to
find new ways to generate revenue from their artistic creations. The
media industry might have a role to play, in this, as it is structured
now... but most likely it needs to evolve significantly if it wants to
survive. One thing is certain : the current model is doomed.
It is nice to see that there are attempts to build new models. Selling
individual songs for downloads (iTunes, as well as some cell phone
operators) is such an attempt, which has shown that new models can be
successful.
What will be the model that will emerge, I don't know. DRM will have a
role to play, but in what way? Digitaly watermarking media? Imposing
controls on players? I think open-source media players will make DRM
player control a non issue. I imagine a world where you download a
media that is watermarked for you, and agreeing not to re-distribute
it, since you can be tracked as the source of distribution if that
should happen.
Other models will likely emerge.
But the way things are currently done is probably soon a thing of the
past.
Time to get to the drawing board and come up with some really creative
ideas.
Posted at 11:31PM Jan 09, 2006 by gravax in Music | Comments[0]
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