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Originally Posted by AlexanderHanff
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Secondly, to suggest content owners don't have exclusive rights to their content is crazy.
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Oh dear. Are you insinuating I'm crazy? I really wish you would try and read and understand what I wrote before replying. I was suggesting that content owners should not expect to an absolute right to all the
revenue from their works when they publish online.
They have an absolute right, bit when they choose to publish online it is only reasonable to expect that others will be making money off the back of the decision to publish online, just as record companies make significant money off the back of the artists when really they are just providing a distribution and marketing channel.
ISPs (even clean ones) do already make money off the back of content owners.
You pay a subscription because you want to access the good stuff on the net provided by others.
You wouldn't pay the subscription, or maybe not as much, if the content was fewer and less varied. Content owners also pay to put their stuff online.
What is the difference between the existing model and the Phorm model (considering only the copyright arguments)?