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The Debate Over RIAA Lawsuits Misses The Point

Published November 8, 2005 Music , Politics Leave a Comment

Ed Felten’s got a post where he tries to clarify the debate over the EFF’s recent report on the state of the RIAA suing individuals for file sharing.

Ed, along with others, are trying to make a point that it’s not proper to criticize the RIAA for bringing these suits without offering some alternative techniques for taking action to prevent widespread copyright violations on the Internet.

People who don’t like the RIAA’s litigous agenda need to come up with a workable alternative. Too many people on the anti-RIAA side like to criticize every attempt to enforce current copyright laws without suggesting alternative enforcement mechanisms, and without proposing an alternative legal regime. I’m not comfortable with simply shrugging at wide-spread piracy and telling the RIAA to lower their prices and stop whining.

I think that to some extent this approach ignores a couple of important points.

The first is that the law (in this case the DMCA) gives copyright holders a complete methodology for how to stop individuals they find who are engaging in illegal sharing of files through the “take down” provisions. All they have to do is complain to an ISP about specific instances of file sharing and action will be taken, no questions asked (at least if the ISP wants to be able to avail themselves of the DMCA “safe harbor” from liability). The Act also requires ISPs to terminate accounts for repeat offenders.

This set of provisions is a far more effective and less costly means of actually stopping the activity of gross infringers than lawsuits will ever be. I know the RIAA hasn’t been shy about using this method with universities. I don’t know to what extent they use it with commercial ISPs.

The second point I’d make is that right now the evidence is that online file sharing is probably not costing the RIAA’s members much in lost sales. Take a look at yesterday’s post in Chris Anderson’s Long Tail blog, examining recent sales statistics in mainstream media:

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Mixed:

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–Banners: Up 10% this year
–Keywords: Google revenues up 96%


This would seem to indicate that people are consuming less of the mainstream media, and that the drop in the level of music sales is in line with the drops in other forms of media. That suggests that some larger economic and/or cultural forces are at work here.

My feeling is that the amount of effort the RIAA is spending with these high profile legal actions is just not worth it for them, much less the trouble it causes others.

Note to Apple – DRM gets in the way of my adoption of innovation

Published November 7, 2005 Music , Technology 1 Comment

Hey, Apple -

I like iTunes – it’s an elegant user interface, it works on both my Macs and Windows boxes, the Music Store has a good selection and is nicely integrated with the software, I like the fact that you can write scripts and Automator actions using iTunes.

BUT -

Your DRM is getting in my way. My personal way. This is not about abstract rights. It’s about the ways I want to use my music after I purchase it from your store.

It’s also not about wanting to share music over peer-to-peer networks. I don’t want to do that. I *don’t* do that.

But I use other devices that aren’t made by Apple. I use a Squeezebox to stream music to my home stereo. I am on the verge of ordering an Olive Musica. I will probably convert at least one of my Windows machines to Ubuntu soon. And none of those environments can play music as it comes from the iTunes Music Store.

Up until recently this hasn’t been a problem, as I’ve been able to use JHymn to strip the copy protection off the files. Yeah, it’s been a hassle to have to go through the extra step of doing the stripping every time I purchase music from iTunes, so in some sense it probably has had the effect of limiting my purchasing.

But now JHymn doesn’t work on the new iTunes version (6.0 and above) at all. Luckily I thought to check first before upgrading iTunes on my machines. If I cared about getting video content from the iTunes Music Store this would probably be a serious drawback. But I’m really not interested in video – just the music.

I don’t know enough of the details to know what made JHymn break with this new upgrade – but I suspect it’s not accidental.

So the ultimate deterrence to innovation here is that I’m not upgrading iTunes from version 5 until I can either get JHymn to work or Apple provides me the equivalent functionality. So come on, Apple – show some real leadership here!

It’s been a great Earshot festival

Published November 6, 2005 Music Leave a Comment

Today’s the last day of this year’s Earshot Jazz Festival, and it’s been a great one!

Last night Michele and I ended our festival attendance hearing the fabulous Gangbe Brass Band – ten strong, from Benin, playing brass and percussion, sounding like a cross between a New Orleans brass band and all the best African grooves – I kept trying to count some of the rhythms and then just gave up and felt the pulse.

Earlier in the festival we heard the World Saxophone Quartet (plus friends) do their tribute to Jimi Hendrix – contrary to Paul DeBarros’ review in the Seattle Times, I thought the Quartet sounded in some of the finest form I’ve ever heard them, and the accompaniment was wonderful, particularly the virtuoso electric bass from Matthew Garrison.

We heard Dafnis Prieto, a young Cuban drummer, and his quartet playing really fiery Latin jazz, and Olu Dara did a show that was a tour de force demonstration of just how deep the rootsy combination of blues, funk, and West African rhythms can go.

The festival did have a couple of disappointments for me – Omar Sosa and his quartet didn’t live up to the billing, and Joey DeFrancesco, while certainly competent and entertaining, just didn’t grab me as much as I expected.

The Triple Door was a great venue for the festival – good sound, good sight lines, and great food from Wild Ginger upstairs.

Thanks to John Gilbreath and the whole Earshot crew for a fantastic festival – and here’s looking to next year!

A change in focus

Published November 4, 2005 Other , Technology Leave a Comment

I originally came to the UW in April, 1994 – more than a decade ago – to manage the Client Services group for Computing & Communications, the UW’s central computing and networking organization.

After we did some realigning of C&C organizational structures last year, we ended up with two large client support units in different parts of the department. While the two units have managed to coordinate activities without letting too many things slip through the cracks (thanks to the hard work of many people), this bifurcated organizational structure has felt to many of us like a piece of unfinished business.

Yesterday we announced to our staff that on January 1 we will be combining the two organizations (Client Services and Customer Care) under the able leadership of my colleague Tammy Stockton. This will allow us to really focus our client support efforts in ways that will provide better and more integrated services for the faculty, staff, students, and others that we serve.

It’s a great move, and one that serves the institution well. There is definitely a part of me, however, that will miss being intimately involved in the day-to-day operations of supporting the users of the computing and networking services we provide.

It’s been a remarkable decade in customer support – when I started the Web browser was brand new, email was a text-only tool, and things like streaming video and instant messaging were just a project in some research lab. Over this period of time we’ve seen the use of Internet-based computing move from being the province of a few thousand alpha-geeks to something that’s used (and abused) in most households in the developed world. It’s been remarkable to be a (very small) part of such a fundamental shift in how the world works.

At the local level, we now support almost 300,000 active UW NetIDs, around 2,000 Nebula workstations, and a growing array of services and products for an increasingly diverse and technology-savvy set of people. This support is done by a small group of very dedicated and talented folks, and it’s been a real pleasure and an honor for me to be a part of that effort.

So what will I be doing?

I’ll be spending more time working with the other parts of C&C and EPLT I am engaged with (MyUW and Catalyst) looking at the array of services offered by C&C, evaluating and promoting new UW technology services, working with the institutional technology advisory structures we’ve put in place over the past two years, and furthering strategic technology efforts, like our work in evolving calendaring standards.

One thing for sure, it won’t be boring!

Pew Internet poll – More than half of teens have created online content

Published November 4, 2005 Learning & Teaching , Technology Leave a Comment

This is a remarkable report from Pew – (warning for Mac users: use Adobe Acrobat Reader instead of Preview to view the full report):


American teenagers today are utilizing the interactive capabilities of the internet as they create and share their own media creations. Fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the internet could be considered Content Creators. They have created a blog or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations.

Teens are often much more enthusiastic authors and readers of blogs than their adult counterparts. Teen bloggers, led by older girls, are a major part of this tech-savvy cohort. Teen bloggers are more fervent internet users than non-bloggers and have more experience with almost every online activity in the survey.

Teens continue to actively download music and video from the internet and have used multiple sources to get their files. Those who get music files online believe it is unrealistic to expect people to self-regulate and avoid free downloading and file-sharing altogether.

Susan Crawford on the telco mergers

Published November 1, 2005 Politics , Technology Leave a Comment

Susan Crawford has an all too accurate post on the ultimate meaning of the mergers between major telephone companies approved yesterday by the FCC:


Today’s mergers signal that the big carriers are now even bigger, and it’s increasingly difficult to imagine real competitors for broadband internet carriers emerging (although I keep hoping — go, BPL!). They’re becoming confident that complete dominion over the internet, complete control, is possible. That’s the big news from today.

I’m adding Susan to my list of regular reads.

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