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http://www.musicunited.org/press/2005/0126.html
January 26, 2005
Internet Piracy Hurts Individual Creators, Not Just "Industries," Say the Entertainment Unions
The following is a joint statement from the American Federation of Musicians, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Directors Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, and the Writers Guild of America, west regarding today's filing in Supreme Court of a friend of the court brief in the Grokster case.
"Copyright infringement on the Internet harms individual actors, directors, musicians, vocalists and writers. Sound recordings, movies and television programs are the unique artistic creations of the individual performers who make them and those same performers depend upon income from legitimate distribution networks to earn their livings and continue creating.
"As consumers around the world are entering the digital age of instant access to music, movies and other media, the debate over access too often obscures the voice of the artist and creator. Nowhere has this absence been more evident than in the discussion of who is affected by P2P networks.
"Peer-to-peer piracy allows copyrighted works to be downloaded without the authorization or compensation of creators. In addition, an artist’s work - when distributed in an unprotected digital format through peer-to-peer networks - is easily altered and exploited, so that it no longer resembles what the actor, director, musician, vocalist or writer intended, yet is distributed under their names.
"If the work of creators is not protected, and is used around the world without just payment, it is very likely that, in the end, neither the creator nor the copyright holder will be able to continue to make this work available. The losers will not only be those artists whose talent and hard work is the creative heart on each screen, TV and Ipod; but also the very public that enjoys quality movies, music and television."
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS (AFM)
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS (AFTRA)
DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA (DGA)
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD OF AMERICA (SAG)
WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA, WEST (WGA)
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS (AFM)
The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada is the largest organization in the world dedicated to representing the interests of professional musicians. Whether it is negotiating fair agreements, protecting ownership of recorded music, securing benefits such as health care and pension, or lobbying our legislators the AFM is committed to raising industry standards and placing the professional musician in the foreground of the cultural landscape. For more information visit the website at www.afm.org.
Kenco. Haven't you figured it out yet. This is not about you baby. There just a little to busy, signing all the contracts that Macrovision missed out on....LOL.. Now hurry up and delete me.
mystock25 Who are you pal. First of all, Your a little off topic here.This is where we talk about our investment with Sunncomm.
this is not the complaint department or tech support. So explain why you felt the need to post your trash here. Personally, I think the product works just fine. And when Media Max 5 debuts, coming out very soon. Your troubles will be over. If you don't like how the industry is planning on protecting itself from theft. Well to bad. You need to get over it.It's here to stay. Maybe you should have bought a better MP3 player. Sounds like you have a worm in your APPLE!!
Found this in my IBD this morning
Monday, May 16, 2005
Protecting Everyone's Rights
BY KEN SPENCER BROWN
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
If you've ever had trouble playing a DVD while traveling, transferring songs from your iPod or watching TiVo-recorded shows on your computer, you've seen the dark side of digital rights management.
DRM is meant to protect media publishers from wanton copying while still letting consumers fairly use the music, movies and other material they've bought.
As both sides have quickly learned, it's a tough balancing act. Few companies are good at it, and none have gotten it perfect.
DRM makes possible region-coded DVDs, which stops European DVD players from showing videos meant for the American market. That's why it's pointless to take along your video rentals on an overseas vacation.
Apple Computer uses it in the iTunes Music Store to placate nervous music industry executives.
But DRM makes it hard to transfer songs to your new laptop.
TiVo's new ToGo service scrambles shows so you won't share them over the Internet, protecting the profits of HBO and Blockbuster. It also limits how you can record the shows to watch later on DVD.
Michael Miron, a digital media consultant and former CEO of ContentGuard, knows this tension all too well. ContentGuard, which licenses DRM technology, wants to create an industrywide standard for protected content. The idea: make it easier for consumers to play their movies and music on a range of gizmos from different manufacturers.
Spun off from Xerox in 2000, the company licenses DRM technology to Sony and others. Microsoft, Time Warner and Thomson bought the firm this year.
Miron recently spoke to Investor's Business Daily about how executives can use DRM without hindering — or alienating — customers.
IBD: You say DRM technology has gotten a bad rap. How so?
Miron: DRM is misused as a term to describe technologies that are anti-piracy. DRM is about expanding the use of content. You have the ability to manage the use of a digital asset, properly authorized, as it moves from one place to the next.
IBD: What does that mean to the average consumer?
Miron: When I download a file, I want to be able to move it from my PC to my home theater. I then want to take the music and put it in my car.
You can do that today. It's called "remove disc, reinsert in other device."
In the digital domain, where you don't have a physical container, (publishers) have to worry about how to do this and not lose control (of their content).
IBD: Haven't people always been able to copy things, legally or not?
Miron: With analog media like books and LPs, there were natural barriers. It costs a boatload of money to publish.
When cassette tapes and photocopiers came along, you could transfer that, but there was a huge fidelity loss. After two or three successive generations, it's so degraded it's not a substitute for the original.
But in the digital world, there are perfect copies every time. The millionth one is identical to the first.
IBD: What are the opposing interests in this issue?
Miron: The interests of the copyright holders are what they always have been: to ensure proper use of their copyrighted material for which their business model says they get paid.
Content owners would like to distribute widely to as many devices as they can, provided they have the comfort that the distribution is governed. DRM is part of that process.
Consumers would like to be able to freely move content from one place to the next with the ease of use they're already used to with a CD or DVD.
They don't want it tethered to a single device, format or player.
The technology players in between would love to try to keep people locked in to their formats, their devices or distribution channel. So you have a tension of the ends against the middle.
IBD: So who wins?
Miron: In the end, the consumer is king. They'll vote with their wallets and their feet. It doesn't matter what the technology or the laws are.
IBD: How should companies go about using DRM?
Miron: The issues are really about what kind of user experience do you create. If the experience is lousy, consumers will not tolerate it.
Prior to iTunes, you had MusicNet and PressPlay (now Napster). They had maybe a few tens of thousands of subscribers. The user experience was so restrictive, nobody wanted to deal with it.
You can legislate all you want. But if you create a lousy consumer experience, they'll walk.
In the world of digital, another choice is a click away.
IBD: How is that changing the publishing business?
Miron: Until Apple released iTunes, the prevailing view was that you can't make money doing online distribution.
If you would have thought three years ago that a less-than-5%-market-share PC (maker) would have hundreds of millions of dollars in downloaded songs and a 70% market share in a hot business, you would have been nuts.
That just goes to show you that business models will look very different than the traditional ones.
IBD: So are today's media companies doomed?
Miron: At the start of a disruptive technology coming into an industry, everybody recoils in horror about how their profits are going to get cratered. About 10 years later the industry is 10 times bigger.
IBD: Examples?
Miron: I was in the wireless (telecom) business in the mid-1990s when the PCS companies (rivals who used newly licensed radio frequencies) launched. I was at AirTouch Communications in 1996. The average revenue per minute across our North American markets was 41.5 cents.
January 1997, Sprint PCS launches in San Diego offering 10-cent minutes. That's a 75% reduction. Prevailing opinion on Wall Street was something called profitless prosperity: Everybody will have a wireless phone, but it'll descend into a price war.
What they missed was all the applications it unleashed: people using wireless phones as their only phone, multiple wireless connections, rich media, text messaging or wireless e-mail.
Now the wireless business is 10 to 20 times bigger than anything anyone would have bought. (The industry was) using a rearview mirror.
IBD: Any other examples?
Miron: I was at IBM in 1981 the day the personal computer was announced. We had raging debates about mainframes vs. PCs.
It turns out that PCs weren't a substitute for mainframes. It was a massive, radical expansion of the market for computing power. Today, it's 10,000 times bigger than anyone would have credibly said in 1981.
IBD: What's the lesson for media companies?
Miron: In the end, the markets were 10 times or more bigger because these "disruptive profit destroyers" opened up new uses that were unimaginable before. So I'm an optimist.
Related Resources:
http://www.investors.com/editorial/managing.asp
the picture caption in the actual paper says "customers inspect IPod mini music player at an Apple store in Chicago in Dec. Apple uses DRM software in its ITune music store to limit the number of copies to each downloaded song
IMO it sounds like MMXT and SCMI have been working with them this entire time
So is this an indicator to "HANG on to your shares"!!!
EXACTLY!!!!! lol
I thought you sold, so where does the "we" fit?
I was only a matter of time!!! IMO
I wonder how long it's going to take you to delete the last post..hurry hurry hurry...lol
amx and tdj, Thanks!!! I guess you both beat me to it lol!!!
How do you know it was reported to the SEC? Did you report it? Do you have proof or are you just assuming??? AND we all know what happens when you assume!!!!
Correct me if I'm wrong but look at the following post which was apparently obtained by a poster on another board and posted by Kenco. To ME it appears someone is trying to imply a different scenario than it was written.. look at the statement and how the words are taken out of context:
from our own board it is written:
Posted by: kenco
In reply to: amx8559 who wrote msg# 546
Date:4/29/2005 11:56:27 AM
Post #of 554
Regarding the latest PR, an investor from another board has done some DD on this announcement and here is their report...
"I have contacted CSN about this statement in the press release:
Additionally, with regard to this project, MediaMax Technology will provide project management, production and quality control services as well as management of manufacturing relationships to make this strategic partnership successful. The short-term goal is to distribute 60 million CDs in North America and a total of 600 million units world-wide over the next 3 years generating a royalty of 4 to 6 cents per unit depending on volume.
I pointed out that the goal of 600 million CDs at 4 to 6 cents is a lot for an organization that distributes information for free to be paying to copy protect free information. He was unaware of the 600 million CD at 4 to 6 cents claim and assumed that the projection was related to SunnComm's business with other clients.
When I pointed out that the statement came after the "with regard to this project" clause, he assumes that it was a mistake, and should have been placed elsewhere."
now look at the above statement and how it was actually written,(via Kenco's post)I see the words "with regard to this project" as being located far above in the paragraph, (so it was "placed elsewhere" lol)but, it was asked/posted as tho they are implying to everyone that the next statement after that talks about the 600 million CDs. But, where it actually is in the statement is an entirely different sentence and doesn't really seem to go together. So of course it was a mistake, only by the way the question was approached. OH!!!! maybe thats why the SCMI board keeps deleting the posts with regards to this. JMHO
I would have to AGREE with amx. Names and dates baby... Or your story has no credabilty... Next time bring us the facts.. Then post your hogwash !!
it was AMX not ALJ
YOU WHO anyone home...little Red Riding hood maybe..Sheesh
Kenco , Your one sick puppy !!!!!
Kenco , Your one sick puppy !!!!!
Dad, I would hope that you ment 10,000 vs 100 shares.times 1 million...Who needs, just ten dollars worth of stock. As i see it, Howie has a butt load of yuppie's listening to him. And I would venture to say that a good percentage of his listeners play the market one way or an other. A quote from my friend Old Milwaukee...It doesn't get any better then this
No proxy here. AMX called and said he recieved his. Im still waiting
Macrovision : Comfirmed SELL.... Sunncomm : Comfirmed BUY
Macrovision Down 43 cents this morning is early trading... Kenny & Co...Time to sell your shares quick..Yes,the word is out !!!
To All share holders: There is a plan that will be coming to the for front very soon to put a end to this madness of shorting.Things will not in the publics eyes for all to see.Soon I will be making contact with all the share holders regarding the future plans for SCMI and QTIG. So hang tight,You have seen nothing yet.
To Sahd: There is a plan that will be coming to the for front very soon to put a end to this madness. Things will not in the publics eyes for all to see.Soon I will be making contact with all the share holders regarding the future plans for SCMI and QTIG. So hang tight,You have seen nothing yet.
To Red Bull.. I am not here to put Kenco down, But kenco needs to bring all investors the truth. I have only one question to Kenco regarding the share price of this company, he claims the company's performance is the driving force for the share price, and has nothing to do with shorting. After his comments, I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt first. But after going back to look at 2nd level trading, and after seeing, time after time, the only time the prices were driven down was, when trades where made, behind closed doors such as what i've seen happen the last few days of a 100 shares traded for 2 cent lower then the asking price. Hmmmm... that means that this company, in your mind is under peforming. Right?... and of course not being shorted.Right?. Well I just want to thank you for your insight, and great attention to detail !!!!!!
If you ever write a book about about buying, selling and especially shorting of stocks, let me know so I can order and get the very first copy ever made. Book # 1 With a signed signature,Something that we all can be proud of.
To Red Bull.. I am not here to put Kenco down, But kenco needs to bring all investors the truth. I have only one question to Kenco regarding the share price of this company, he claims the company's performance is the driving force for the share price, and has nothing to do with shorting. After his comments, I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt first. But after going back to look at 2nd level trading, and after seeing, time after time, the only time the prices were driven down was, when trades where made, behind closed doors such as what i've seen happen the last few days of a 100 shares traded for 2 cent lower then the asking price. Hmmmm... that means that this company, in your mind is under peforming. Right?... and of course not being shorted.Right?. Well I just want to thank you for your insight, and great attention to detail !!!!!!
If you ever write a book about about buying, selling and especially shorting of stocks, let me know so I can order and get the very first copy ever made. Book # 1 With a signed signature,Something that we all can be proud of.
To: cgibello....Just wanted to let you know. I believe in you Pal... I for one enjoy reading your posts... I believe you have one of the best sources for information...And what you bring to this board is invaluable..So please keep up the good work!!!! Thanks Madmmax
There is need to be pumping this stock....Only a fool couldn't see whats going to happen next... (So wax on,and get out) LOL
Sahd3g.... Hey this is John Boy..Trying to make a name change...But I screwed that up...Waiting for MATT to help me out with that one....I was busy watching something on TV when I noticed the market was just about to close... Just had to spend my last few bucks to close the market on a high...What a blast...But I got 100 more shares.. But I did do good...Beat the BELL just by a minute...Damn that felt real good....Love screwing with shorty... Well im 6'2" and I am tired of looking down...Also tired of tripping over shorty... Get out of my WAY !!!!!! IT"S MEDIAMAX'S DAY...LMAO...OH BY THE WAY,THAT WAS ME ON QTIG'S LAST BUY .079 SWEEEEET