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Free Culture: 'Harms' (War (launched by the content industry…

- - - - lobbying
      - campaign contributions
- - - - But only possible in small groups
      - Never in history has a painter worried about his painting infringing someone else's work.
      - Modern-day artist using Photoediting tools, must worry all the time.
    - - Fidelity
      - Power
        
        Extends sharing across the globe
        
        Efficient spread of content
        
        For content industry this efficiency is a "bug"
        
        investing in and deploying technology that would hunt down copyright violators and
        
        disable their machines
        
        make them lose their affiliations
        
        put them behind bars
        
        pauperise them
        
        Criminalises users
  - - - RIAA sued 261 persons, including a 12 year old girl and a 70 year old man who had no idea what file sharing was
    - - Friend gifts a music CD to a student
        
        She takes it to her college
        
        connects it to a college network
        
        doesn't know how to protect content from network
        (who knows?)
        
        college network "cooperating" with RIAA espionage
        
        identifies the student as a criminal
        
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  - - - largely dominant content industry
    - - "the world of the mafia
    - - Competition
      - Creativity
      - Innovation
    - - Advantages
        
        Unlimited number of stations a user could tune into
        
        No limit to broadcast frequencies
        
        Niche stations could easily develop
      - RIIAA places tough conditions and stiff prices for Internet Radio to reuse its content
      - Conditions and Price tougher and steeper than terrestrial radio
      - Conversation
        
        Internet Radio atorneys
        
        "How do you come up with a rate that's so much higher?
        Why is it worth more than radio?
        Because here we have hundreds of thousands of webcasters who want to pay, and that should establish the market rate, and if you set the rate so high, you're going to drive the small webcasters out of business ..."
        
        RIAA experts
        
        "Well, we don't really model this as an industry with thousands of webcasters, we think it should be an industry with, you know, five or seven big players who can pay a high rate and it's a stable, predictable market.
        
        RIAA aimed to eliminate competition