6/12 How about wireless MP3 players........ you pay $10/mn for a
"keychain" wireless service which connects you to your "personal"
Mp3 archive. I read an article about apple and how they should
make the attached product. But who want video???? I want music
and portable access to MY music. YOu could probably sell these
things like hotcakes? You don't need to worry about big clunky
devices such as palm and ipaq, external HD's, just build a form
follows function device fit for playing MP3's by connecting to
remote device using wireless. For christ sake you could plug
into metrocoms network or something. ATT has supposedly also
build out a very nice "personal" wireless service. - kinney
\_ Why not just treat it as a wireless accessible personal
file server / data storage. If the files are mp3 files,
so be it.
\_ You missed a crucial caviat. Connect to Personal network. In
effect what you are saying is your computer up in Berkeley with
YOur MP3 collection can not be used by YOU. That is bogus and
they can't do anything. That is like saying MP3 is illegal. Now
if all of a sudden 10,000 people are hitting your computer that
is different. So What might be required is documentation saying
what MP3's you have and who owns them- That is straight forward
and can simply be solved by MASSIVE HD space. Each person would
need their OWN directory- that way they can only listen to THEIR
COLLECTION which is legal-- How the person obtains their own
collection is their own business. Thus the connection device will
come with its own personal remote secure folder using some the
dirt cheap co-location space available.
The key player will only be able to access that one directory.
RIght now there is going to be a huge shift to remote storage of
MP3's. My solution fits the market exactly and tied with a
wireless portable play you can't lose. And to the best of my
knowledge it is legal as there is NO SHARING.
Of course the sharing may be implied- "how did the user amass
that 20gig collection?" but again that isn't my concern- answer
"No idea. Go ask the user?" But then that answer does protect
the users. So a better answer is- "Here is the schematic of the
network- By design we are legal and since this is a private
personal network no one- Not even me- has the rights to know what
MP3's the user has?
\_ That idea is DOA. RIAA will want their cut of the
action and will insure any players will first pay
their dues through them. http://mp3.com was already
proposing the idea, I believe, or something similar
and look what happened to them. My co-workers have
been talking about general file servers connected to
high bandwidth lines so that they can work from
anyplace. I think you have to provide privacy
protection licensing in order to at the very least
fend off copyright infringement laws in these cases.
But as far as a company running it, forget it. Forget
the hardware as well because the RIAA will go after
them as well unless they strike a deal with them. - keithyw
\_ Why not just treat it as a wireless accessible personal
file server / data storage. If the files are mp3 files,
so be it.
\_ You missed a crucial caviat. Connect to Personal network. In
effect what you are saying is your computer up in Berkeley with
YOur MP3 collection can not be used by YOU. That is bogus and
they can't do anything. That is like saying MP3 is illegal. Now
if all of a sudden 10,000 people are hitting your computer that
is different. So What might be required is documentation saying
what MP3's you have and who owns them- That is straight forward
and can simply be solved by MASSIVE HD space. Each person would
need their OWN directory- that way they can only listen to THEIR
COLLECTION which is legal-- How the person obtains their own
collection is their own business. Thus the connection device will
come with its own personal remote secure folder using some the
dirt cheap co-location space available.
The key player will only be able to access that one directory.
RIght now there is going to be a huge shift to remote storage of
MP3's. My solution fits the market exactly and tied with a
wireless portable play you can't lose. And to the best of my
knowledge it is legal as there is NO SHARING.
Of course the sharing may be implied- "how did the user amass
that 20gig collection?" but again that isn't my concern- answer
"No idea. Go ask the user?" But then that answer does protect
the users. So a better answer is- "Here is the schematic of the
network- By design we are legal and since this is a private
personal network no one- Not even me- has the rights to know what
MP3's the user has?
\_ That's what Aimster claims as well even though they
are a "sharing software." Look at what has happened
to them
\_ The RIAA will have something to say about that because you can
still distribute it across computers.
\_ That is like saying MP3 is illegal.
\_ In Taiwan they passed a law that treated (illegal)
.mp3s distrbuted through university networks like
"dangerous substances such as drugs."
\_ this is why capitalism sucks.
\_ no, this is why taiwan sucks. |
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