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Originally Posted by BenMcr
Because it is your responsibility maybe? This is from Amazon's MP3 service - I would expect similar terms would apply to the VM service
Except as set forth in Section 2.1 above, you agree that you will not redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, sub-license or otherwise transfer or use the Digital Content. You are not granted any synchronization, public performance, promotional use, commercial sale, resale, reproduction or distribution rights for the Digital Content. You acknowledge that the Digital Content embodies the intellectual property of a third party and is protected by law
So that basicially says by downloading the file in the first place you agree in full that you are responsible to what happens to it, even if you didn't know.
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And that is what is going to make a mockery of the whole thing. I will be sitting at home, listening to a track, and i will think that one of my friends in the USA might like the song, so i send it him, and in doing so, i will be breaking the T&C of the agreement. Or i could be making a home video of one of my nieces playing about, to upload to youtube, and have a track playing in the background, again technically, i will be breaking the T&C of the agreement.
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Remember this is against the backdrop of government legislation that all ISPs are going to have to follow - that illegal sharing will have action taken against it. Leaving this sort of service doesn't mean that things still won't happen - it will just mean you lose the legal option
It seems to be that that they will be between 256 and 320Kbit MP3s
Well that is your choice - but they may well be casing your house anyway if the Digital Britain report is anything to go by
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This is going to be the big test for the government. Can they crack down on illicit file sharing, while giving the consumers more rights and protections? If they get the balance wrong, there will be 7 million file sharers in the UK not voting for them at the next election.
We, the consumers need more rights to what we want with media which we legally purchase. The right to rip CD's to our ipods, the right to upload home videos to youtube, without the music industry threatening to sue us, the right to convert DVD's to which ever format we want, so that we can play them on a device of our choosing, the right to backup games we buy.
The entertainment industry won't like that, but hey, i don't like the idea of the music industry, which makes £100's of millions profit each year, suing the public.
Services like this won't stop illicit file sharing, but it may well reduce it. People download for many reasons, not just because they don't want to spend money.
From my own point of view, i download the TV show "Lost", even though i can watch it on Sky. The reason being, that "Lost" doesn't air in the UK until the Sunday after it airs in then USA, when it's broadcast on a Wednesday night. I am not willing to ruin the risk of the show being spoiled, just because Sky choose to broadcast it 4 days later. I am also part of an international community which likes to talk about the show, after it airs in the USA. So watching it on a Sunday night, is absolutely no use to me at all. I know that, that's not an excuse to download the show, but it is the reason i download it, and i am unapologetic for it.
Until the various sectors of the entertainment industry get their acts together and starts delivering content who the consumers want it, there will be occasions where i will download from illicit sites. Even with the super sleuthing powers of my ISP on my case.
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