Coming soon: legal P2P music in the UK

Published on June 26, 2008 By Macmatt In Internet

After talks coordinated by the government, it turns out that ISPs and record companies could offer legal broadband subscription services that permit file sharing of music by the end of this year. This would make the UK the second nation, after South Korea, where this takes place. However, no deals have been signed yet and some details still need to be worked out.

This could possibly be the end of large-scale music piracy in this country, and would certainly be a big change in how music is distributed. Personallt I may go for one of these packages, providing that I get to keep music after the subscription has ended, unlike current subscription services.

Any other opinions on this?

Comments

zolop

on Jun 27, 2008

personally I would like to see if the music artists (small or indie ones) can survive in this business model. I imagine that they would not make much since the monthly subscription made has to go to many artist, versus the ones you have been buying.

If on the otherhand, artist (Small or Indie) can make a living better than they can now, it is a good direction to go.

But as in any opinion more information on the subject will facilitate my perspective, opinion or view, as this could be worse for small or Indie muscians.

Can you get more information or specifics?

zolop

on Jun 27, 2008

On the subject of piracy, the limit on how many people can share the song is not a bad idea. Their needs to be a much better software so that the consumer becomes much less frustrated with it though.

What is the Creative Commons License? I am not sure but it allows more freedom to share and edit the song, I think. Wired had a article on it I mean't to read but didn't.

Macmatt

on Jun 28, 2008

It is only vagueties at the moment, all I know came from the linked article. This could indeed hurt the indie sector. The question is would this mean them losing more or less money than they currently do due to piracy?

twizl

on Oct 21, 2008

On the web, you can a lot of site working on indie music such as for Streaming Audio, CD Reviews, indie charts, internet radio, and articles for musicians. Musicians get low cost promotion.

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