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Dendriet is a network of musicians in The Hague (.nl) that perform with networked electronic and acoustic instruments. The word dendriet, or dendrite, is also the name for the receptors of a nervecell. Dendrites are typically branching branches. You'll find these fractal shapes in ice, in metal chrystals in limestone, and likewise, in our performance setups. Please do check out our homepage by clicking the stone. You too are invited to join the discussions.
24.2.04
A better user licence: p2p is broadcasting.
The current user licences for music recordings are not up to date anymore. We survived the "hometaping kills music"-era by adding a tax to empty disks and cassettes. But this is not the solution anymore.
- a tape had a more or less fixed length, but the amount of music that can be stored on a cd depends ultra (Dave's humour is so special... Ernst) on the compression method: from 1.25 to 10+ hours. How do you tax that?
- with the coming of iPods and big external HD's, I notice a lot of people use a dedicated HD for media files.
- I would oppose paying tax on an HD, as i use them mostly for my own work.
So,
I wondered, would it be a good idea to charge uploaders, c.q. limewire/kazaa users as if they are local radiostations? Each limewire/kazaa user can be said to have 2 listeners on any given time. These listeners are hometapers, that's correct. So work out a fair charge for p2p activities, and give these people an option to decriminalize themselves.
- a tape had a more or less fixed length, but the amount of music that can be stored on a cd depends ultra (Dave's humour is so special... Ernst) on the compression method: from 1.25 to 10+ hours. How do you tax that?
- with the coming of iPods and big external HD's, I notice a lot of people use a dedicated HD for media files.
- I would oppose paying tax on an HD, as i use them mostly for my own work.
So,
I wondered, would it be a good idea to charge uploaders, c.q. limewire/kazaa users as if they are local radiostations? Each limewire/kazaa user can be said to have 2 listeners on any given time. These listeners are hometapers, that's correct. So work out a fair charge for p2p activities, and give these people an option to decriminalize themselves.
