Comments on: Industry offers alternative to P2P bill

The proposal, from a handful of telecommunications firms and other groups, takes a softer approach than a bill introduced in June.

How about...

How about we leave the laws as they are and let the copyright owners do what they are supposed to do and that is file suite on their own. We have enough half ass laws now that don't do a damb thing. We don't need the government @#$% around in this. There is nothing stopping the copyright owners from exersizing their rights to go after violators. The recording industry and hollywood and the computer industry simply don't want to have to work for it. If the government wastes our tax dollars doing this that leaves more profit for the big businesses.

Robert

Leave the law as it is

I disagrre: Filing lawsuits are impractical. As an example, many songs were factually stolen from by music publishers and the judge sided with the thieves (story here: http://www.gvenegas.com).

On the other hand, this inducement thing is ridiculous. It will only make copyright infringement worse by making the mockery of the law worse than it is.

The solution is too simple to be seen by anyone with anyone with an economic interest. Too simple for lawyers to see (thet have an economic interest).

The solution is to make art an art and not a buisiness. Leave the artists as owners of their art. Then art will flourish. Is that not the stated intention of the copyright laws?

Why not do like Canada...

Why don't the congress or senate do what the Canadian government has done. Just add a special tax on all media support and have all amounts transferred to a government body responsible for copyrights. It?s simple and to the point.

I don't believe that any bill or law will stop the P2P phenomena, if curtailed in the U.S.A what about the rest of the planet, will U.S. residents be prevented from going on the web all together???? Because that?s the only way your going to stop P2P in the States..

There?s no way that anybody can stop file sharing, laws or no laws and if American legislators can?t see this, well sorry folks, they?re really dumb.

Jean Jacques Duguay

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good idea but....

Good idea Jack but what about the people who don't file share? There is surprisingly a large number of internet users who simply don't download. In my opinion, they are unfairly charged in Canada.

I think the media owners should stop accusing the government and the individual users for their inability to come to terms with technology. They have to get their act together and come up with an equitable and intelligent system and stop blaming others! A system where customers are able to easily manipulate media files and get them at a fair price.

There's a really interesting study that came out of Harvard which concludes that file sharing doesn't actually hurt the industry. Have a read: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4206&t=innovation