Feds waste resources

Feds waste resources

By Gerald Internet Anthropologist Think Tank

03.14.09

Record industry lobbyist are forcing Feds

to waste resource chasing an out moded

paradigm.

The record indrustry is using a pre-internet

paradigm.

And their lobbyists are powerful enough

to politically force Feds, to waste investigative

resources trying to enforce an outdated

unenforceable paradigm.

The music indrustry has evoloved from

manufacuturing 33 rpm platters to re-aragning bytes

on a PC or Ipod .

The production cost for one music cut

or a million cuts is the same.

All they are doing is rearanging bytes,

Virtually no costs involved for unlimited

copies.

Their paradigm will eventgually evolove into

making the music so cheap that it is eaiser

and safer to buy the music than upload

unauthorized cuts.

If the cost of these cuts were pennies

instead of dollars their profits would increase

and pirating would decline to almost zero.

As purchased cuts would be eaiser and safer

to aqquire.

While the instant case is off point,

it indicates the error of their paradigm.

Their current paradigm is doomed to fail.

G

Feds Demand Prison for Guns N' Roses Uploader

By David Kravets March 13, 2009 | 6:37:35 PMC

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are pursuing a 6-month prison term for a Los Angeles man who pleaded guilty in December to one misdemeanor count of uploading pre-release Guns N' Roses tracks, according to court documents.

Kevin Cogill was arrested last summer at gunpoint and charged with uploading nine tracks of the Chinese Democracy album to his music site — antiquiet.com. The album, which cost millions and took 17 years to complete, was released November 23 and reached No. 3 in the charts.

The sentence being sought — including the calculation of damages based on the illegal activity of as many as 1,310 websites that disseminated the music after Cogill released it — underscores how serious the government is about punishing those for uploading pre-release material.

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