February 24, 2008

Sorry music industry, the ball is completely in your park

Sir in “The ISP police” February 23 it is when you say “The music industry meanwhile, must help itself and offer cheap, accessible downloads to expand the legal online market” that you get to the inescapable truth about the piracy of music at the internet.

For bad and for worse, the internet signifies and immense technological breakthrough and that has the power of changing society even more than music, something which as a true music lover it pains me to say.

We can not therefore hold back the society from fully exploiting the potential of the internet just in order to accommodate to the collection of music copyrights; much less can we afford to criminalize the hundred of millions of persons that are de facto and de jure infringing on copy rights; much less can we afford to dedicate scarce resources in the pursuit of these crimes when there are so many worse threats calling for our attention; much less can we afford to create in the music market another booming market opportunity for the entrepreneurs of illegal activities.

And so, sorry music industry, the ball, or in this case the song, is completely in your park