Warner Music Group proposes to legalize fayloobmen
Warner Music Group has recognized the futility of combating peer-to-peer networks, and realized that you can fayloobmen monetizirovat: label proposes to charge Internet users with a monthly fee for unlimited access to the entire base of current music. The promotion of this idea lies Jim Griffin, a veteran of the music industry and the former head of the record company Geffen Music, said Portfolio.com. Griffin entered into a three-year contract with Warner Music and will be setting up a new organization that will promote the project.
Warner Music Group's offer is as follows: Network users will pay a certain sum each month included in the bill for Internet services, in exchange for the right to download, output, copy and distribute music without any restrictions. Griffin believes that the payment of such a pleasure to be low - about $ 5 a month. However, this payment will be tiny enough to annually collect music lovers with some 20 billion dollars, which will go toward the payment of royalties artists and copyright owners. It is also possible that the system will be based on advertising. In such a case, those users who do not want to receive advertisements, will pay for access to the music for $ 5, while those who apply to advertising calmly, will not pay any penny.
Jim Griffin is confident that this initiative will help to breathe new life into the music industry and consumers happier. However, there are also opponents of the project: Some critics believe that the labels want to charge a monthly fee to all users, regardless of whether they download music or not. Electronic Fund Frontira discusses model based on voluntary licensing, that is, proposed to take charge only interested in fayloobmene users. Other experts believe that the draft Warner Music Group will work only with the voluntary participation of users, but not by coercion.
It is noteworthy that Warner Music - not the first who had the idea to legalize fayloobmen. In October last year a similar scheme proposed Danish ISPs. Their draft provides that users will be able to download an unlimited number of songs for a monthly fee of $ 100 Danish kroner (about 19 dollars). The initiative of the Danish labels approved local pirate organization Piratgruppen. According to its agents, record companies finally being realized that it is impossible to cope with the problem of falling CD sales through lawsuits against fayloobmena fans. Therefore, the studio was forced to find a way to solve the problem, which is equally satisfied as music industry and users alike.