Corporations, CDs and Click Thru Licensing Loopholes? 32
"What if there was a peer to peer service that had a click through license of some sort that made each user a member of the corporation. The user uploads a CD and it becomes property of the corporation. The user retains the original CD as a distributed back up for the corporation. In return for this service (providing a safe place to store the physical CD, using their harddrive space to store backup copies, using the user's bandwidth to distribute these backups to be backed up etc.) the corporation lets the users occasionally listen to that music and other music the corporation owns as a form of payment.
Users are not receiving a service (downloadable music) they are providing a service (storing digital music for a corporation). They are employees of the corporation that get paid by the right to listen to the music.
This would only work if corporation was non-profit and decentralized, a co-operative of some kind without any ability to have control taken of it by someone who would then try to collect its property (the CD's)."
No way this will be legal (Score:3, Interesting)
Corporate purchase != corporate liscense. (Score:2, Interesting)
Are the moderators using some sort of filtering for approving Ask Slashdot questions? Seems like if you have DMCA in the question, it automatically gets approved.
Re:Doesn't really work (Score:2, Interesting)
Your argument implies that listening to music without headphones is a copyright violation.
Re:Doesn't really work (Score:3, Interesting)
Taking the letter of the law, I think that that is correct. In practice, unless you are playing it for people who actually want to listen, and probably paying for it, you'd be vanishingly unlikely to run into problems.
Re:Corporate purchase != corporate liscense. (Score:3, Interesting)