In 2008, the RIAA sent out 30,000 default notices to suspected file sharing copyright infringers.

The infringement notices were couched in threatening legalese designed to intimidate the recipients into settling for an average nominal figure of $3,000.

 

Apparently 25% of those served with these infringement notices paid up, not wishing to take the chances on a court case.

 

It’s a successful business model for the RIAA and they’re reasonably happy with it.

 

Let’s just see how that looks on a spreadsheet.

Total Infringement notices Sent	30000
25% estimated paid up.	7500
Estimate total collected	$       22,500,000
estimated Bay/TSP, DTECNet, Admin & legal costs per infringement	$395.00
Estimated total costs	$    11,850,000.00
Balance of funds for distribution to artists	$       10,650,000
estimated file sharers in the USA @ 57% of Online Population	188100000
$ Recovered per file sharer.	$                  0.06

 

N.B: Online population actually equals all population and not just online.

OK great, so the recovery value equals six cents for every American that downloads.

 

Today, I was browsing P2PNet  and found a story about  how Canada is on the Obama’s watch list of unfriendly Copyright countries.

The story referred to Barrie McKenna’s article in the Globe & Mail. I thought I would have a look as Jon Newton’s article slammed the article as being full of inaccuracies and cast serious doubt on the legitimacy of the author as a Journalist.

 

The (legal) music fades out for Canadians

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/the-legal-music-fades-out-for-canadians/article1330240/

 

Well I read the article and became so incensed at the virtual parrot nature (Polly works for the CRIAA) of the author that I decided to write a response.

 

There are only two choices here boys and girls, either Barrie McKenna follows his bosses instruction and writes what he is told to write or he is seriously mis-informed and believes only what the RIAA tell him.

 

Possibly because no-one has told him any different.

 

So get a coffee, put your feet up and let’s debunk Barrie’s total lack of understanding of 1 + 1.

 

First of all we should examine some data to see if the biggest Torrent tracker in the world agrees with Barrie’s article.

 

Search sequence on a well known non torrent tracker search engine:

Lets try just .torrents.

 

Results 1 - 10 of about 239,000,000 for ".torrent". (0.12 seconds) 

 

Lets pick the number one TV show in the world at the moment.

Results 1 - 10 of about 90,400,000 for "house" +".torrent". (0.10 seconds) 

 

Let’s pick a movie which everyone knows.

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,720,000 for "wolverine" +".torrent". (0.21 seconds) 

 

Lets have a look at this weeks number one selling song: Celebration by Madonna

Results 1 - 10 of about 664,000 for "Celebration" +".torrent". (0.30 seconds) 

 

And lets check out number 2.
Results 1 - 10 of about 163,000 for "Crazy love" +".torrent". (0.25 seconds) 

 

So it would seem that TV programs are what people are downloading the most, not music.

 

But on the topic of music. At Perceptric for some time, we have been saying that P2P encourages people to buy the content. So let’s see if that works for the Canadians.

 

From the Global Chart Report at http://www.mediatraffic.de/

'Celebration' keeps just ahead of the competition
Friday, October 16, 2009
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden

Despite a 47% sales decrease to 172.000 copies, Madonna's best of compilation 'Celebration' holds the top spot of the global album chart for a second week. In 3 weeks on the tally the album moved nearly 700.000 units. Michael Bubl's new set 'Crazy Love' follows close behind at no.2 with 169.000 copies. After only 3 days at retail in North America the album sold 132.000 in the USA and 37.000 in Canada.

 

	Sales	Country	Population	Percentage of Pop
	132000	USA	330,000,000	0.040%
	37000	Canada	31,000,000	0.119%
Difference	Canada wins by			298.39%

 

So 298.3% more sales per capita of population than the USA which we would guess isn’t on President Obama’s Black List.

 

Also please note the almost direct correlation between numbers downloaded and sales.

Madonna Celebration  Downloads: 664,000 Sales: 700,000

Michael Buble : Downloads 163,000 Sales: 169,000

So I think we can discount music suffering in Canada more than the USA.

 

Not convinced yet ?

 

His comments are in Blue, mine in Black.

 

In  Barrie M’kenna’s article, he stated

 

Published on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009 12:00AM EDT Last updated on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 3:21AM EDT

 

Internet entrepreneur Gary Fung fancies himself a budding Sergey Brin or Larry Page, the Google co-founders.

In Mr. Fung's view of the world, his Vancouver-based company, isoHunt Inc., is essentially a search engine.

 

We agree with Gary. The worlds number one rated internet site (which is also a search engine) search engine supplied all of the statistics in the torrent stats graph above.

 

The catch is that 95 per cent of what goes on at isoHunt.com involves what most Western countries regard as piracy - unauthorized file sharing. Want the latest maps for your GPS, a copy of the movie Twilight, video games or just about any song ever digitized? At any time, you'll find links to more than 90 million files, neatly catalogued and free for the taking.

 

Again, another person that doesn’t understand the differences between:

 

Piracy on the high seas.

Commercial piracy of DVD’s and Music for commercial profit, and;

File Sharing for personal consumption, because;

                        The content is not available in the country, legally.

                        The individual doesn’t have a credit card,

                        Restriction of services like Hulu, Amazon, Pandora.com and Lala.com.

 

Not surprisingly, the site is wildly popular. IsoHunt is one of the world's most visited so-called BitTorrent websites, which use special software to index files and enable users to browse and download whatever digital content they want. As many as 100 million unique visitors go to the site every year, putting it among the 200 most popular websites of any kind on the planet.

Canada has earned a dubious distinction as a world hub for illegitimate file-sharing websites and a leader in Internet piracy. Canada now hosts five of the most popular pirate sites in the world.

And other unauthorized sharing sites say they have shifted operations to Canada, specifically to exploit the friendlier legal environment.

BITTORRENT NATION

Worlwide rank / Website / Visits per month / host location

3. / Isohunt / 5.1-million / Vancouver, B.C.

4. / Torrentz / 2.5-million / Laval, Que.

6. / BT Junkie / 2.4-million / Sweden and Canada

9. / BTMon / 608,000 / Brampton, Ont.

10. / TorrentPortal / 474,000 / Vancouver, B.C.

Source: siteanalytics.com

 

I thought we would check on the reference offered by Mr. McKenna. What we found was slightly disturbing.

 

http://siteanalytics.com/index.html appears to be site for the analysis of land values for shopping centre developers.

From their about page.

“Helping retailer, developer, and municipal clients achieve their expansion goals.

Since 1995 Site Analytics Co. has been helping clients boost their odds of success on every real estate transaction they make. We provide innovative techniques to shed light on the strategic questions they face on a daily basis.”

 

So we thought we would check similar sounding sites and we found:

 

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/

 

So we entered the five sites that Mr. McKenna relies on as the justification for Canada being one of the world leaders for illegal downloads.

 

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/isohunt.com.au+torrentz.com+BTMon.com+BTjunkie.com+torrentportal.com/

 

 

 

And we discovered that that Canada’s leading “file sharing sites can only scrounge up a measly 2,862,691 unique users and further that the trend appeared to be decreasing or remain flat since January 2009. In other words, file sharing through these sites is on the decrease.

 

Rightly or wrongly, Canada is seen as a country where the laws to combat digital piracy are weak, ineffective or simply non-existent, argues Barry Sookman, a partner at McCarthy Tétrault LLP and a leading Canadian expert on copyright.

 

Expert? What is a copyright expert? Someone that actually understands the legislation?

In other words a lawyer that is touting for more legal work on the totally non understandable copyright legislation that you would have the Canadian Government change.

 

"Canada is viewed as a pirate haven," says Mr. Sookman, who has done work for the Canadian recording industry.

 

Really? I actually thought that Canada was forward thinking country that recognised the value of locally encouraged talent and realised that file sharing couldn’t be stopped but that artists still needed to be paid. To this end, Canadians have instituted the CPCC.  

 

From the CPCC about page:

 

The Canadian Private Copying Collective is the non-profit agency charged with collecting and distributing private copying royalties. Established in 1999, CPCC is an umbrella organization that represents songwriters, recording artists, music publishers and record companies. These are the groups on whose behalf the royalties are collected. CPCC is not an arm of government. Enforcement of the private copying tariff and advocacy, including representing copyright holders before the Copyright Board, which decides the tariff, are other important functions of CPCC. This site provides in-depth background on each of CPCC's key functions.

 

So how are they doing?

 

CPCC Media Royalties Collected	23434900
Divided by ten years	2343490
Administration Costs already deducted.
Balance of funds for distribution to artists	2343490
estimated file sharers in Canada @ 57% of the online Population	17670000
$ Recovered per file sharer.	$         1.33

Source: http://cpcc.ca/english/finHighlights.htm

N.B: Online population actually equals all population and not just online.

So how does that compare with the RIAA efforts at Legal criminalization and legal actions to collect damages?

 

Well the figure above for the RIAA recovery method (Top table) was six cents per file sharer.

The figure in Canada is $1.33 per file sharer. That’s an increase of 2342%.

 

And the CPCC royalties are ACTUALLY DISTRIBUTED to artists and publishers. We have yet to see a single cent from the RIAA legal actions be distributed to artists. Until the RIAA publish a full audited (they always present their numbers unaudited)  set of financials showing their distribution to artists, we can honestly say that their legal actions are for self funding purposes and not to benefit the talent that created the infringed works.

 

Wow! So the nice way works better than the nasty way?

 

It would seem so.

 

Let’s pop back to Barrie McKenna’s enthralling fairy tale.

 

Earlier this year, the Obama administration put Canada on its blacklist of shame - a "priority watch list" of intellectual property laggards, joining the likes of China, Russia and Venezuela.

 

No doubt, you are referring to the IPRI report, which we debunked here; http://www.perceptric.com/blog/_archives/2009/3/20/4127511.html

 

By demonstrating that increased levels of file sharing actually showed that in countries with a lower IPRI rating the real GDP growth of country's was superior to those countries with a higher IPRI rating.

 

http://www.perceptric.com/rgdp1.gif

Indicating obviously that countries that file shared more were happier and worked harder.

It would be easy to dismiss the U.S. action - an early precursor to retaliation - as yet another bit of American hypocrisy on the trade front. After all, more than a quarter of the visitors to many of these sites are Americans.

 

Do you have any statistics for this Mr. M’kenna? Or is this more hyperbole?

isohunt.com Rank By Country
Country	%User	Rank
UNITED STATES	26.90%	152
INDIA	9.60%	147
UNITED KINGDOM	6.10%	108
JAPAN	5.70%	319
CANADA	3.90%	97
AUSTRALIA	2.90%	83
PAKISTAN	2.30%	86
GERMANY	2.30%	677
CHINA	2.10%	1264
ITALY	1.90%	366

Access stats for ISIHunt.com.

And less than 4% are Canadians. That would suggest that Americans are much bigger file sharers than Canadians.

What Canadians should be aware of is the implied threat. An early precursor to retaliation. What retaliation would that be Mr. McKenna? Nuclear, or financial?  Could the US Federal Reserve afford to short sell the Canadian Dollar into oblivion?

 

But that would be wrong. Canada, which has repeatedly promised but so far failed to deliver on copyright reform, isn't just out of step with the United States, but with much of the Western world.

 

I don’t know Mr. McKenna, I would say that Canada is providing a model of file sharing acceptance that is paying the artists far more than they are receiving through any USA initiative. If that is out of step – then viva the Canadian model.

 

"There are real copyright problems," Mr. Sookman concedes. "It doesn't just affect Canadians. It's a trade problem."

 

How is it a trade problem Mr. Sookman? Is that what you were told to say so that the Canadian Government would be shamed into accepting and adopting the US Governments anti human rights, and anti civic rights ACTA Trade agreement at the November Korean meeting?

 

Music and movie royalties are not a trade problem. They are a commercial licensing problem that your content company masters who no doubt instructed you on what to say in this article, have elected to not fix because after all, file sharing is profitable for them. So why would they actually want it stopped?

 

IsoHunt, meanwhile, is facing legal challenges. It has been sued in California by Columbia Pictures. And at home, it has sparred in court with the Canadian Recording Industry Association, which has demanded (so far unsuccessfully) that the company take down links to copyrighted material. Authorities and copyright owners say they need a lot more tools to disrupt piracy in Canada, including the ability to force sites such as isoHunt to remove links to copyrighted material without lengthy legal proceedings. They also want stiff penalties for Internet service providers who turn a blind eye to unauthorized sharing over their networks.

 

As I said above, file sharing is a profitable legal exercise for everyone. Let’s stop it using fines.

Bullshit. Did fines stop speeding? Nope. But they generated an awful lot of revenue. Do people still speed? Yes, but they buy GPS systems and in some countries, radar detectors that warn them of where the Speed cameras are located.

 

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Ottawa acknowledges it must update its laws to meet the digital challenge. Canada has promised reform in several Throne Speeches. Those efforts have so far produced a lot of talk and thousands of pages of reports, but no law. Ottawa's last attempt at copyright reform died, along with the government, at the end of 2007.

Now, the Harper government is at it again. It recently completed a national consultation, garnering responses from nearly 5,000 individuals and groups. Industry Minister Tony Clement wants a bill by December.

Experts are dubious because so many earlier efforts failed.

"Canada has made itself a victim of this," said Eric Schwartz, speaking at a recent forum in Washington, organized by the Woodrow Wilson International Center's Canada Institute. "It has allowed the business to get established and opposition to grow."

 

There are good reasons for Canada to embrace reform - and not only because the Americans and Europeans are pushing Ottawa to do it.

The world has gone digital. And there's now an explosion of legitimate download sites in the U.S. and Europe, including ground-breaking music sites Pandora.com and Lala.com. But you can't use them in Canada.

These and other businesses are choosing to bypass the market entirely, in part because of licensing problems.

 

That’s an interesting comment Mr. McKenna. So is Australia equally bad at file sharing reform? Because in Australia we cant access any of these legal sites either. The facts are clear from the CRIAA’s own sales numbers, the fastest growth in digital distribution is from legal streaming sites.

Dec-08	2008	2007	Percent Change	2008	2007	Percent Change
Digital product ** (December 2008)
Internet Downloads	5037	2297	119%	45438	27564	65%
Digital Mobile Content	1921	1716	12%	21632	20592	5%
Subscription Model	395	262	51%	4599	3144	46%
Other ***	319	50	538%	2829	552	413%
Total	$7,672	$4,325	720%	$74,498	$51,852	529%
Units and dollars expressed in thousands
Sales information is supplied by members of CRIA and tabulated by Grant Thornton without audit.
The categories of DCC/Mini Disc and Cassette Single have been eliminated from the report due to negligible sales.
* This category includes formats such as cassettes, CD singles, VHS music videos and DVD-Audio
** Monthly digital statistics are not available for 2007.
For the purposes of monthly comparisons, one twelfth of total year-to-date digital statistics for 2007 will be entered each month.
*** This category includes formats such as streams

Source: http://www.cria.ca/stats.php

 

Ergo, but locking out countries outside of the USA, these “legal sites” are in fact encouraging file sharing.

 

I would suggest strongly that until the content companies alter their policies on open access to the content via legal sites, illegal file sharing will continue to grow.

 

And the creative industries that produce music, software and the like - industries that contribute significantly more to the economy than BitTorrent sites –

 

We would dispute that Mr. McKenna. We did some arbitrary figures earlier this year and calculated that the file-sharing industry in Australia alone is worth :

 

Australia Population:	22,000,000
		Per Unit	% pr/yr	Number of	Total $
Infrastructure	A	98,000,000,000	0.21%	98,000,000,000	20,580,000,000
Maintenance	B	209,860,000	1	209,860,000	209,860,000
Wages/Paye	C	5,000,000,000	1	5,000,000,000	5,000,000,000
Computer	D	1,000.00	33%	11000000	3,630,000,000
Laptop	E	1,500.00	66%	4400000	4,356,000,000
Router	F	69.00	33%	3300000	75,141,000
Wifi	G	180.00	33%	3300000	196,020,000
Sat Dish	H	420.00	33%	110000	15,246,000
Modem	I	90.00	20%	11880000	213,840,000
Cellphone	J	550.00	66%	22,000,000	7,986,000,000
Retail Use Plan Home	K	39.95	100%	5,500,000	2,636,700,000
Retail Phone Data Use	L	18.00	24%	9680000	501,811,200
Wholesale Billing	M	12.00	100%	5,500,000	792,000,000
					45,400,618,200
GST	(GST not calculated on "A" and "B")				2,061,261,820
Total Value of P2P	(At 80% of Network and CPE value)				$37,969,504,016

Source: http://www.perceptric.com/blog/_archives/2009/5/29/4203779.html

 

In other words, in Australia P2P is worth more than the entire combined revenue base of the member companies of the various industry bodies trying to stop P2P. (i.e.: EMI, Warner, MGM, Sony)
Now multiple those figures by the population of the rest of the world and you have an industry globally that adds up to $10,355.319,277,091. In other words, Mr. McKenna, a lot more than the content industry.

 

may also shun Canada if nothing is done.

 

I don’t think so Mr. McKenna, the only danger to Canadians is the US Dollar and the lengths that the US Government will go to protect that dollar.

I don’t see why Canadians should have to support the bankrupt US lifestyle any more that they are already doing.

 

That hurts Canadians, and most people don't even know it's happening.

 

You are right Mr. McKenna, an increased support by Canada of the US Dollar may very well suit your masters but it would hurt Canadians and they don’t even know that is what this entire file sharing argument is about.

 

Oh, that’s not what you meant?

 

So sorry. With all the misdirection, outright lies and false innuendo in your article it was difficult to know exactly what you were saying that had any merit.

 

The article as written Mr. McKenna, is either a rather poorly compiled piece of propaganda or merely shoddy journalism.

The last man that relied on misdirection to influence the people was tried as a war criminal at Nuremberg.

He often said: “Repeat something often enough and the people will believe”

His name was Joseph Goebbels.

 

Your article unfortunately can be called nothing else except Blackmail. Blackmail of the Canadian people by one of their own. If you're a Canadian Mr. McKenna, may your face burn with shame for propogating this crap.

References:

http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fascism

NounS: (n) fascism (a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism))

 

 

 

 

I just can’t believe that big business doesn’t yet understand the guaranteed formula for failure.

 

Interdiction of an activity that is desired by the majority of the population will be met by alternative technological means.

 

Each time Governments, Lobbyists and the partnered Judiciary (well they have no choice really, most judicial appointments are politically motivated) attack the Internet, something changes.

 

Technology is updated. Methodologies alter and the activity continues regardless.

 

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is the new way of saying: The.Big.Bang.Theory.S03E03.The.Gothowitz.Deviation.HDTV.XviD-FQM.avi

 

All of those take down notice machines hired by the media companies e.g.: DTECTNET et al are now broken.

 

People are no longer downloading a TV program, they are downloading an ANSI code.

 

They may receive a TV program, but is that what they wanted?

 

Yet another test for our courts to rule on.

 

I must say, when I first signed up for my first uucp account, the internet was a much nicer place.

I didn’t have to worry about Trojans, Advertising Company designed and sponsored by major companies Malware.

There was no need to encrypt my data stream.
I didn’t have to pretend to be anonymous to post comments on bulletin boards or discussion forums.

I didn’t have to buy a prepaid phone from someone else so that Telcos wouldn’t listen in to my important commercial in confidence telephone conversations.

And I didn’t have to bounce emails from an SSH server on the other side of the world to make sure they were not all intercepted and read.

 

Whatever anyone says about the Internet, the restrictions currently being implemented on our freedoms and activities are not because it’s good for you. They are an attempt by Big Business to take over the internet.

 

Legislators and enforcement agencies, please leave our internet alone. Is that election campaign contribution really worthwhile selling out the future of your country and it’s people?

 

The recent campaign contributions by Village Roadshow to the Australian Labour party would appear (at least to this 51 year old cynic) to have predetermined the outcome of the iiNet trial. I hope I'm wrong.

 

I wonder it it’s not time to disallow all commercial campaign contributions.

Further, I wonder if it’s not time to disallow all campaign contributions over $500.00.

 

I think that if we want open and honest Government, it probably is.

Yesterday I creamed News Limited for fake and political reporting, targeted at influencing the outcome of the iiNet trial currently underway.

 

They used non-empirical data and ancient quotes from an misnamed organisation all designed to create FUD. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.

 

That’s what the media these days considers is what is necessary for selling newspapers.

 

And that’s why I don’t normally buy newspapers.

Yesterday I traveled into the city and brought a copy of my favourite print publication. The Australian Personal Computer Magazine (fondly referred to as APC Mag).

 

Why did I buy it? Was it for the technical updates?

 

Nope, I’m afraid I’m across most of the APC announced technical advances.

 

Was it for the helpful Howto series?

 

Nope, I was building PC’s in 1983.

 

Was it for the adverts for cheap computer equipment?

 

Nope – I cruise all the adverts I want via the web based price compare sites.

 

I brought the magazine because I enjoy the non-partisan editorials

The presentation of the facts without having to destroy any reputations.

The presentation of a non-geeks view of what is next. Non Geek? APC is full of geeks.

 

Well, as I have said before there are different levels of experience. The APC Editor, Tony Sarno is a Journalist that used to run the IT pages of the SMH.

The one thing I noticed about Tony is that whilst he printed the facts, he never resorted to empty editorial slanging matches.

 

He still doesn’t.

 

In 1983 I purchased my first computer magazine in Australia. Micro 80 Magazine. It was already three months old when I purchased it from the Darwin Newsagency, but in those days in Darwin it was usual to have to wait for one or two days to get the Australian or the Financial review, so three months for an American magazine was actually pretty good.

 

I then started buying Byte Magazine, Your Computer Magazine, Dr Dobbs Journal, PC World, Boardwatch, APC, Wired, Red Herring  and eventually started my own Telecommunications orientated magazine with Chris Davidson called chips ‘n bits. Chips ‘n bits grew into the Australasian Internet Magazine with my entrepreneurial start-up of Ausnet Services, an ISP.

 

The interesting thing is that I have purchased every edition of APC ever printed.

 

Why? After all, if I am an expert at anything, it is communication technology and personal computers. By my own admission, I know or think I know most of the content in the Mag. Why do I keep buying it?

 

Whoever can answer that question, could teach uncle Rupert a couple of things of being in the Media profession.

Doesn’t Rupert own APC? Nope, I think the other team do. However, if the magazine retains it’s current format, I shall keep on buying it because it is relevant to me. It is not dismissive or editorially over-opinionated. And when I have finished my initial scan-through, I go back and read it again in case I missed anything. In other words, the publication tells me what Australians know about computing and it makes me feel good.

 

Feel good versus political assassination. A new business model, clearly worthwhile investigating.

 

Disclaimer: I am a purchaser of APC magazine. I own no shares in any company that has anything to do with APC Magazine and I have not discussed this article with anyone from APC Magazine.

We have previously stated that P2P downloads of English movies are acting as a valuable ambassador of the English language and consumer lifestyle trends to the worlds hungriest P2P market, China.

 

Today, we will be discussing that Cable Broadcasting stalwart, the World Movie Channel.

 

Anyone who subscribes to the World Movies Channel will no doubt occasionally wonder at the preponderance of Danish and Chinese movies.

 

Whilst I don’t doubt that the Chinese represent a significant portion of the world population, one can hardly say the same about the Danes.

 

So what gives with all the Danish films on World Movies?

 

As a guess, I would hazard that the Danes are desirous of increased diplomatic relations with the world and have elected to discount their movie offerings to the World Movie Cable channel as a marketing ploy.

 

It is doubtless working, with Danish movies being about every 20^th movie being shown.

 

Why? Well, either World Movies is a Danish Corporation or has an interest in promoting Danish culture to Australia.

 

A quick look at http://www.worldmovies.net/?page=corporateinformation

 

Informs us that:

 

PAN TV Limited is an independent Australian company that was founded to produce The WORLD MOVIES Channel for the Australian subscription television market.

The WORLD MOVIES Channel began broadcasting in October 1995 coinciding with the launch of subscription TV in Australia.

PAN TV Limited is a partnership between three Australian entities, being: Australian Capital Equity, APN News and Media and Multilingual Subscriber Television Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of SBS) The China based media company Shanghai Oriental Pearl Group is also a minority investor.

 

OK, at least we know where the Chinese content comes from.

 

But I re-iterate – why are we getting all the Danish content?

 

It’s not that I mind Danish content, but to be perfectly honest I paid the $6.95 per month for Hungarian content of which there was precious little of. Now Hungary has about the same population impact on the World so how come there arn’t as many Hungarian movies as Danish movies?

 

What was that, oh we have a Danish Princess ?

 

Oh sorry, the Danes have an Australian Princess ?

 

Ah,  an ex-pat Aussie girl is now a Danish Princess. Right. Got it. So that is why Australians pay $6.95 per month, so they can become comfortable about losing one of our own to them.

 

Good-oh. As long as we know.

 

PS: World Movies – Regardless your good intentions, If it’s called World Movies it should have a balanced representative content based approximately on the population breakdown of languages spoken at home (hint: in Australia) as per the last census.

 

Otherwise it should be renamed to Danish Movies Channel # and Other World Movies Channel ##

 

PPS: Don’t bother with the Hungarian movies. Your one Hungarian subscriber – me, has resigned his Foxtel subscription. I now get all my Hungarian content via IPTV – for free. Thanks very much.

 

The Disagreement about Blogs

 

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There are two point two new Blog sites created for every second of every day of the year. (around 175,000 per day.)

The blogosphere doubles every 236 days! Presently, there are around 77 million blogs,
It has been predicted that within three years, 50% of all content online will be user-generated.

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One viewpoint is that :

From TNS Global website

NEARLY A THIRD OF OUR LEISURE TIME IS SPENT ONLINE

 

LONDON. December 8^th 2008: New figures released today reveal the staggering amount of time Brits now spend on the internet in their spare time – with the league table topped not by students, but by housewives.

 

And from Blogher

The majority of people consider Blogs are rated between somewhat reliable and highly reliable as sources of empirical data and product purchasing  advice/recommendations.

 

Blogs as a Source of Information

 

Source: The BlogHer/Compass Partners 2008 Social Media Study P15

 

And contrarily, from a leading Psychologist:

 

Now we discover people don't believe blogs - so stop blogging...!

 

A major survey of over 27,000 people has discovered that blogs are the least credible source of information online. Coupled with similar research on the trustworthiness of blogs, this most recent study suggests the end is nigh for blogging.

According to the study, we believe "word of mouth" over and above everything else. The TV news comes next, then online news with newspapers just a little bit behind. Blogs are way down the bottom, with only one in every ten people believing them.
  

And another contrary opinion - this time from Businessweek, headlined:

 

Only 16% Trust Corporate Blogs: Are They Worth Doing?

 

The response from Forrester Research is it depends. But the bottom line is that based on survey research the firm released a report today, it’s time for some rethinking of corporate blogs. (To get the report you have to hand over some contact data).

Forrester found that 16% of the people who read company blogs trust them—less than every other form of content they asked about, including print media, direct mail, even corporate emails.

 

So we understand that half the experts say Blogging is not worthwhile and the half saying it is.

BTW, the half whom claim that blogging was worthwhile seem to represent the female population rather strongly. This is inline with our discovery over the last two months that a great majority of the game players in Zyngas Facebook based Farmville game were averagely aged as being 27 year old females.

Because of our experience in online data usage (since 1987) we believe that wherever the girls are – the boys are sure to follow and that observation can now be confirmed with our recent stats collection on Farmville player sexes.

 

Chris and I both blog on this website, Our backgrounds are not dissimilar except that I entered the computer field once I completed uni and Chris entered the music business. We then both spent a considerable period of our lives being extremely entrepreneurial with some success and a couple of failures (on my part).

So Chris is our expert social networker and I am our spreadsheet guy.

 

You can tell the difference between our styles by reading some of the blogs. Chris is careful with his spelling, grammar and sentence structure, carefully hunting for the right balance of adjectives, verbs and nouns to present his views.

 

My online style is rather raw by comparison. My previous attempts at writing were always edited, so this new role of self-editing is obviously beyond my capacity.

The words flow and the fingers try to keep up, usually failing.

 

Chris is always asking me to be more careful with my presentation, grammar and spelling. And I respond (jokingly), “Do you want quality or volume?”

 

His reply is usually dismissive of my cavalier style but somehow we get through each of these editorial discussions and the Perceptric blog grows and grows.

 

During one of our “editorial quality” conversations recently I retorted to the repeated grammatical structure and spelling entreaty with an almost flippant, “It would appear that regardless of the poor layout and my bad spelling, we are doing better than the newspapers in retaining readers  attention”.

“We don’t have many readers (less than 100,000), but the ones that we do have are connecting with us in a more meaningful and much longer time than any of the major Australian Media sites do”.

 

“Are you sure?” asked Chris.

 

“Well, if you look at the time that the average reader spends on our little irrelevant blog and compare that to nearly anyone that has a few million bucks to run their blog – we appear to be creaming them. Do me a favour – pull up the Alexa ratings for Perceptric.com”.

 

“Yep, done”.

 

“OK, now add-in some premium media content – like ninemsn.com.au smh.com.au. afr.com.au and to balance the results include another Blog site like crikey.com.au, and then click compare and then Daily Traffic Rank”.

 

Chris and I then discussed the aspects of the different stats available on Alexa.

 

 

According to the Daily Traffic Rank it would seem that the field is dominated by Ninemsn almost neck and neck with the SMH with Crikey in third place, followed closely by the AFR and trailing invisibly at the back is Perceptric.

 

So if that’s all it takes to get advertising, then I think I will do a deal with Microsoft and get my name on the top of every Internet Explorer browser,

 

So now dear advertising reader, it’s your cue to ask, “But Koltai – how do we know they’re reading our ads”.

 

Ah, there’s another little tool in Alexa that allows you to see how long individual peeps stay on a site.

 

It shows a totally different picture.

 

It would appear the Perceptric is leading the pack.

Then, in daily page views per user, there is a battle royal for attention, but again with Perceptric gaining on the field..

 

 

So, should you, dear reader, spend your advertising dollar with Perceptric?

 

“Um, no, we don’t do advertising.”

 

But the evidence is clear that major media, while they have the initial attention of the consumer, also seem to lose it fast.

 

“Do you mean that people actually stay longer on the Perceptric blog than the leading Television and Newspaper sites of the land?”

 

“Well, yes. They do.”

 

“Why?”

 

Well this might be a reason….

 

“At Perceptric, we tell it like it is with very little spin. Neither Chris nor I have political aspirations. We have nothing to sell except our knowledge and we give away a lot of that knowledge for free.”

 

“But are you qualified?”

 

“You mean beyond our both being over 50, both entrepreneurs and our university studies?”

 

Yes. What qualifies you to broadcast your views to the world at large.

 

“Well nothing really. We don’t believe that one needs to be qualified to obtain user attention. If one however then gets users attention, then obviously one is giving the users what they want.”

 

“And what’s that, Koltai?”

 

“Read the Blog…”

 

Oh, and keep in mind, it doesnt matter if a site has 10 million users or 20 users. If the users only stay online long enough to leave, the user numbers dont really mean much.

Internet destinations that engage their readers/players/users for long periods of time should be your media buying target. (Per impression of course.)

 

Postcript:

 

We talked earlier about an article from Businessweek. Entitled, “Only 16% Trust Corporate Blogs: Are They Worth Doing?”

 

“It would appear that Businessweek, is up for grabs, according to http://www.dancewithshadows.com/business/bloomberg-among-potential-bidders-for-businessweek/

 

Bloomberg, the financial news agency, is considering a bid for BusinessWeek, the business magazine published by McGraw-Hill.

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the interest shown by Bloomberg in buying BusinessWeek has “further crowded” the field of potential bidders, and also indicates Bloomberg’s intentions in continuing to expand beyond its core business of providing financial data, news, and analytics to professionals.

Quoting “people familiar with the matter,” The Wall Street Journal reported that the other potential bidders for BusinessWeek included Bruce Wasserstein, the chief executive of the investment bank Lazard Limited and who owns the magazine TheDeal and New York Magazine; ZelnickMedia; Joe Mansueto, founder of Morningstar; and private equity firms Platinum Equity, Warburg Pincus, and OpenGate Capital.

The bids for BusinessWeek will take place on September 15, 2009.

In July 2009, the United States-based publisher McGraw-Hill, which owns BusinessWeek, had said that it was “putting on the block” its financial magazine and also “exploring strategic options” for the magazine.

BusinessWeek, founded in 1929, has a circulation of 936,000 copies in the United States. The magazine’s main competitors in the national business magazine-class are Forbes and Fortune, both of which are published bi-weekly.

 

So the company that depended on the Forrestor Research report that said that only 16% of the world listened to Corporte Blogs is now being sold. Possibly consumers don't really trust the big Corporations anymore.

 

We wonder if the following has anything to do with McGraw-Hills decision? 

 

 

PPS: That’s all folks, until the next badly written, badly spelt, atrociously laid out, irreverent Blog article. Thank-you and it’s goodnight from me, and goodnight from him.

 

(Two Ronnies circa 1970)

 

PPPS

Damn I forgot the all important title - where should you advetise?

We think you should take a couple of adverts on facebook - and our suggestion? Place them next to Farmville for maximum bang for your buck.

But with that said - this advice is only good in Internet time. Next week? It will probably be a different Game.

This gives you the greatest access to 34% of the female game playing population most likely to be aged 27 years old and a housewife.

And I'm sorry I published this because I guess Farmville will be now be one of the most expensive words on Google.

References:

 

ALEXA

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.perceptric.com%2Fblog

 

Digital Divas

http://advertising.microsoft.com/WWDocs/User/en-us/ResearchLibrary/ResearchReport/Digital-Divas.pdf

 

NEARLY A THIRD OF OUR LEISURE TIME IS SPENT ONLINE

http://www.tnsglobal.com/news/news-6A7B1D614B284E20B26AA3A75601275B.aspx

Youtube Video Promotion for StopBigMedia.com

http://www.stopbigmedia.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All over the world, bankers, economists and Governments are watching the growth of Facebook with envy.
Imaging getting a hundred million new customers between April and September. Wow. Pretty good stuff.

Wouldnt it be great if we could grow the the country's economy the same way.

Well - the good news is - there is a way.

First the Government has to be able to get your attention.

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When was the last time that you caught a bus or a train to travel from destination A to Destination B and then upon reaching your destination, asking the Bus, Train or Tram driver what their name was so that you could look up their Facebook or Youtube page?

 

Oh, you never have?

 

So don’t you find it unusual that you were delivered safely from A to B and no-one welcomed the event with a fanfare of trumpets?

 

Ahhh, well there’s the difference.

 

You’re probably not a politician (but if you are - please skip to "If I was the Prime Minister").

 

Politicians don’t seem to realise that they are merely pro-tem drivers of the country from destination A (when they’re elected) and Destination B, when they’re un-elected.

(Granted, yes, a country is bigger than the Liverpool express from Central - except for Lichtenstein and Nauru).

 

Politicians unfortunately seem to require every moment of their lives to be featured on the news, quoted in magazines and newspapers. Unfortunately, the public are choosing to ignore the mainstream media and are electing to concentrate on internet alternatives.

 

Which is just as well as the media's editorial opinion (spin) applied to some of their actions are not exactly designed to always show them in a favourable light.

 

So several of our elected members have decided to go one on one with the public via Facebook, Google and other non-media owned internet outlets.

 

But they don’t quite “Grok” the current Gen XYZ’ers – who are far more interested in what the Prime Ministers Farmville score would be if he played, than what was said during question time at 3:00 am this morning.

 

Why?

 

Because, just as passengers do not need to know the brake horse-power of their chosen conveyance methodology, question time is the nitty gritty of Government and way beyond the understanding of the average citizen.  Which I opine is exactly why lobbyists manage to convince Prime Ministers to back their “questionable” bills.

 

And exactly why the public have a negative follow-up knee-jerk negative reaction at the polls.

 

“But I was sure they would like that policy………….”

 

“Yes Minister. So did we at the ministry. All our internal polls said that it would be popular.”

“Internal? You mean you didn’t ask the public?”

 

“Good God no,  Minister – we couldn’t ask the public. They don’t know what’s good for them. We just always go with what the lobbyists tell us that the public really want – after all Minister, it’s the lobbyists that advised their employerrs to donate all that money to your election campaign. So obviously they know what the public want.”

 

Maybe what we need on the Internet is new Game….

 

If I was the Prime Minister

Written by the dedicated APH coders.

 

Congratulations, You have been elected as the Prime Minister of Australia.

Your Treasurer, has just delivered a Budget allocating you 600 billion to spend over the next four years.

 

You……..

 

Buy Nuclear Submarines                                                - 10,000 points

Increase Education spending                                          +5,000 points

Pass Copyright Laws that no-one Understands                 -10,000 points

Increase Nurses salaries                                                +5,000 points

Pass Legislation mandating that all doctors charge

Within the Medicare guidelines for short visit.                    +5000 points

Increase the army (to enable Australia to assist

our northern neighbours in trouble in the future)                 +5000 points

 

Speed up the NBN rollout by five years by ignoring present

Telephone Companies lobbying for position.                     +20,000 points

Insist that all mineral exports be smelted into ingots          +50,000  points

 

Ahh, wouldn’t it be nice if Government was as simple as playing game.

Then everyone would be genuinely interested in the score and politicians wouldn’t have to wonder why no-one was reading their Facebook pages/Blogs/Youtube Videos.

 

Facebook is all about “Look at me aren’t I great?”

 

But usually only after a high score has been achieved.

The ribbons are issued for achievements – not talking about agreeing to consider reaching an objective.  

 

And opposition members, this applies to you as well.

Very few Australians are actually “really” interested in “Me too position paper on the same subject as what the Minister said”.

 

Yes it fills Newspapers and the evening news….. NEWSFLASH….. Hardly anyone buys newspapers anymore and as for the evening news ? (Samo Samo – ratings dropping 30% per year).

 

If you want the attention of the Australian people, turn politics into a fun game.

 

BHP just won a contract for 100 million tones of Iron Ore sales to Korea.

This will enable ship builders in Korea to make three thousand times as much as what they are paying for the ore.

 

Do you:

 

A) Ship the ore to get a fast quick profit?                                           20 points                                                     

B) Change the rules so that the steel is smelted                            1000 points

     and formed in Australia?

C) Try to convince the Ship makers to open a plant in

     Australia for part of the construction?

     (By giving them a thirty percent discount on the steel.)            50,000 points

 

In this way, at least Australians will understand what the Government does and why it does it.  

 

Fairfax or News Limited had such a (budget analysis) game on their web site earlier this year.

It is a shame that their version was designed as political criticism rather than a tool to obtaining the engagement and attention of the next crop of voters.

 

Yes, a game is a good idea. Each item in the game is basically a mini referendum poll.

If the game becomes a set funnel for a pre-existing lobbied target then I’m afraid Australians (who incidentally have a higher IQ than our American friends) would see through the ruse.

 

Put it on Facebook and you never know – we might get the whole world having a say in how to govern Australia.

 

Ahem – whisper whisper whisper……..

 

Sorry, what was that? We already have the whole world telling us what to do?

 

No, that can’t be right – We’re Aussies. We make up our own minds  - don’t we?

The Lack of interpersonal politics on Facebook appears to inspire peace and harmony.

 

It would appear that Facebook are achieving what all the great statesmen have been unable to achieve.

That is, creating a Global level playing field whilst at the same time apparently removing distrust and promoting “joy de verve”.

 

Farmville, the latest game from Zynga have created an environment where lowering the secular barriers to privacy is rewarded by “ribbons”.

 

The more neighbours you have, the quicker you can earn your ribbons. The more ribbons you have – well I would say that the ribbons appear to be a competitive measuring tool yet here is no annual (or monthly) Farm Show where the populace can ooh and aah over your accomplishments.

 

However there are those horribly garish Facebook “updates” from the game that are designed to show your fellow “friends” how well you are doing.

So product promotion is co-joined with “arn’t I great?”

 

 

 

 

 

Farmville by it’s design has allowed me to double my Facebook friends list.

 

I used to have 26 friends in my little secular Facebook existence. These 26 “friends” took years to develop. These are people that I like, trust and don’t feel concerned about associating with.

 

For example there are no lawyers in my list of friends, (okay, there is one – but I knew her before she read for the bar.)

(There are however Mathematicians, Economists, Router Guru's and Geeks.)

Not that I dislike lawyers. It’s just they are more of a work tool than a friend. Yes, I have a linked-in account and yes, I do have lawyers on my Linked-in page. So Facebook is my social entree to the Internet whilst Linked-in is my professional persona.

 

But have I made a mistake?

 

Professional status, success and eventual wealth comes from the ability to ply ones trade amongst the highest possible number of persons/customers/clients that are in a position to afford your rates.

 

Self marketing is achieved in various ways, it may be through red wine consumption, (in select groups), It might be through membership in organisations like Lions, Rotary or the Masons. Then again, it can also come from the Alumni group from ones education. These are the recognised and accepted methods of networking ones worth to build professional credibility.

 

After all, if you need an accountant, you are much more likely to hire the drinking buddy or the Alumni member than a total stranger.

 

Of the 27 new “Farmville” originated Facebook friends, I have connected in a minor way with three people, an intellectual connection with two and a meaningful full blown new friendship with one. Person. These people come from a number of countries and backgrounds.

People that I would not have met without the aid of Facebook and Farmville.

 

Reid Hoffman, Director of Zynga and Chairman of LinkedIn is obviously ahead of me here.

 

From the Zynga “About” page:

“Reid is a prolific Web 2.0 investor who has built LinkedIn into the leading professional networking site with 17 million active monthly users. Mark (CEO of Zynga) and Reid have worked together since co-investing in Friendster in 2003.”

 

So what has Reid Hoffman (along with other Facebook Application Developers)  achieved?

 

Possibly the best way to get your name before the most people.

The threat of ridicule keeps the content mostly sane therefore Facebook is equally appropriate for young and old.

 

So Facebook appears to be the new Global Networking tool.

 

For Games

For Friendship

For World Peace.

 

And of course as the methodology to deliver a new Global Economy.

(Yep - you guessed it, that's another article on another day. But think Facebook credit card, sponsorhip money being translated into a real income from game play and you get close.)

I used to run a BBS in the eighties. The famed KKK. Koltai's Kakadu Konnection.

The technology to run a BBS required many hours of dedication and weeks of waiting for new widgets/gadgets, and hours waiting for the overnight UUCP email responses from technical support in the USA and England.

 

I used a combination of TBBS, SVR 5.2 Unix and BSD Tahoe to provide amusement, a file library, email and interactive communications (users could chat to one another directly).

 

Many incorrect (technical) paths were traveled down.

But the users provided the will to continue to provide the service. After all, they would’nt stop ringing, even in a lightning storm.   

 

The biggest drawcard was Tom’s F3 key. The “kick user off the BBS key”. The users knew that I had the power of the electro God over their antics on the BBS and that I would wield that power if anyone swore in a public forum or acted in a manner not in accordance with the rules of the BBS.

Quite often the users would PM (private message me) to say "Little Johnny is swearing again in the Game forum) so I would go and delete little Johnny.

Ten seconds later, little Johnny would realise he was disconnected and redial his modem.... and usually he would then beghave until he "thought" I wasnt around.

 

The F3 Key gave me the power to make the rules whatever I wanted them to be……..

 

And believe it or not, the users enjoyed me weilding the power. Funny thing, users - the urge to watch someone else get booted off the bulletin board was something that I used to marvel over.

Ah, the power of the media mogul was a heady rush….. ohh, did I say media mogul? Sorry, I meant BBS Electro—GOD!

 

 

Today, four tools have completely replaced the 80’s BBS. Google, Facebook, P2P/Rapidshare and IM (MSN/IRC/Yahoo Messenger).

 

I would include the Blogsphere, however, the growing referrals on this blog are coming more and more from Facebook.

 

Every user has the same capability as the Sysops of the early BBS days.

Every day I am sent referrals to literaly tens of articles that my "friends" consider worthwhile. 

Every user is a newscaster. A Publisher. A BBS Operator. Everone has a “Kill User Key”.

 

 

 

The Temporary “Hide User or Application” Key or the more permanent “Remove User Key”.

 

Anyone can publish their editorial opinion. And now, with a new twitter killer (not quite but close) Facebook has the ability to spread a new meme faster than “Greased Lightning”.

 

Here’s the CNN News Story from this morning…….

 

CNN – Facebook – Social Tagging.  
The difference between Facebook and Twitter?

Hide or Remove versus Follow and Not Follow. An important distiction.

Hide @meme is a very powerful editorial button, which many a politician would have liked.
Now Stephen, this doesnt mean that you can Filter Facebook. No. You can't. OK ?

Why not? because it's a user choice and only useable and cvalid amongst the user joined interest groups and friends.

But doesnt Facebook make friends of everyone on the Internet?

 

Shhh. That's another story......

 

References:

Koltai's Kakadu Konnection OzChat Linkup with the USA (1994)

http://textfiles.zockbar.de/bbs/PASCO/pbm26.mag

Koltai (April 1996)

http://www.users.on.net/~tomk/docs/koltai.htm

For sometime, I have attempting to explain that the ED2K network is the largest Data Archive in the world.

 

Today, an article in CNet surprised me. “Moonwalk footage being restored after original video lost”

 

Greg Sandoval for CNet said :

“NASA acknowledged on Thursday that the original TV footage of the moon landing on July 20, 1969, was accidentally erased. Someone wanted to make room on the videotape reel that stored the footage. So, did NASA's goof rob future generations from watching what was arguably mankind's greatest achievement?

 

Not hardly. Remember at NASA, failure is not an option.

A Hollywood post-production house was enlisted to lend some movie magic and restore the images by digitally stitching together copies of the flight retrieved from various sources around the world. The restoration undertaken by Lowry Digital, based in Burbank, Calif., is still under way and won't be completed until September. The first phase, however, was released on Thursday and Lowry's rescue work has won rave reviews.

 

With the original one-inch videotape recordings "degaussed, re-certified, and reused" NASA had to do some sleuthing to dig up copies. The best were narrowed down to four sources, including one from a handheld camera that was pointed at a monitor within Mission Control, according to a statement from the company.”

 

They didn’t have to look very far.

 

On the Kademlia (ED2K) Network, I received 96 “trusted” results to my search request (Moon Landing),

On the ED2K Server Network, I received 1586 “un-trusted” links.

 

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El Falso el Viaje a la Luna (Como se rodo) [Luna NASA Apolo falso enga±o lunar Stanley Kubrick Apollo fake moon landing].avi	50.15 MB
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But then again, judging by the title of many of the shared files, possibly NASA was recompiling for a different reason.

The article concluded:  “The idea is not to enhance the record of the landing, but to re-create it.”

 

I guess the danger and benefit of the world’s largest Digital archive Library is that the public will retain and share what is important to them – and not that which is particularly important to the “Official Historians”.  (Linked Article – God 2 Appointed to take back the Power – Obama’s new official Historian)

Everyone seems to have an opinion about the content industry - and the music industry in particular. And the area that causes the most heat is that of downloads. That is important, but it is like smoke that impedes your vision so that you can't see where the fire is.

The big issue, which Tom has done some excellent analysis of in various parts of this blog, is how the revenues flow.

The revenues (surprise, surprise) flow out of Australia.

The USA is where Sony Entertainment is headquartered, Universal, Warners. Although EMI is headquartered in the UK and great deal of the influence in how the company is run comes from - you guessed it - the USA. So not only do the royalties from sales of music flow out of the country, but for all the multi-national companies the profits flow out too.

What flows back into Australia and other countries is: Influence.

That influence is ever present on each of the "Industry Association" boards. So when you look at the ecosystem of the music industry you immediately encounter a group of organizations that represents a sector of interests. It doesn't matter which country you go to, you get the same set of organizations, with the main difference being the acronyms that they are identified by.

When you dig into those organizations at the structure you start to see how it all works. In Australia, ARIA - the record industry association is dominated at a board level - and therefore at a strategic level - by representatives of the multinational companies. In the music publishing sector AMPAL - the music publishing representative body - is dominated by multinationals.

In the performing rights sector at APRA you have a board that is constructed so that half the board are Australian songwriters and half the board are publishers. At least in this case you have a board that is not controlled by overseas interests. However when you look at how the individuals are elected to the board you start to see that influence coming through again...

The way that the directors are elected is through a vote by their peers. So the songwriters elect the songwriter representatives and the publishers elect the publisher representatives. In each case the votes that are available are directly proportional to the amount of money that the writer or publisher earns from APRA. This seems on the face of it to be an eminently fair way to go.

However, when you think about it, most of the publisher income that drives their voting capability comes as a result of the international catalogues that they represent and the cash flows that emanate from them. Since that money actually flows out of the country and therefore does not aid the local economy, it seems to me that this is a spurious way to elect a representative to a board.

My belief is that the way that board members should be elected and should represent an industry should be totally linked to the maximization of economic activity within the country in which the organization exists, otherwise what you get is a growing conflict of interest.

I would recommend that in the case of APRA for instance, the publisher members, when voting, are given a proportional number of votes to the income that they generate from locally owned copyrights only. This would underline the concept that the strategic direction of the organization is geared to maximizing the benefits of music specifically to the local economy.

I would recommend that the same rule be applied to all other organizations that are in the music sector and aim to influence government in regard to matters of copyright, tariffs, and in addition to the way that P2P file sharing is treated at law.

These changes may seem pretty subtle and may not cause a massive change in the attitudes of the organizations in the music industry, but they would help focus the industry on how to aid the local economy - which is something that they can't possibly do without change at the top.

Now, I say this in particular, because when you look at the macro economic issues that relate to content specifically with the matter of P2P you start to see some really fascinating things that are going to be extremely difficult to address other than at the top level. And you have to take a view that is all about positioning the legal system to help create as much financial churn in the local economy as is possible without having the cash immediately exit the ecosystem.

The fact is that the tech sector is hugely rich and clearly is growing on the back of content. Content needs to be monetized or people will stop making the content. But cash flows from content clearly need to flow back through the local ecosystem and economy in order to generate benefit for the country. To that end the organizations who seek to influence government need to be able to show that they actually represent the best interests of the local creative artists.

Otherwise you get the ridiculous situation of executives from a company that is in the content industry and in the consumer electronics sector - and consequently making money from all sides of the equation trying to influence the government. Such influence is mitigated by the fact that they do invest in local talent, but hopefully you get my point. The money flows straight out of the country.

The companies that should have the greatest influence should be those that are locally owned and focused on generating wealth for the local economy - like my old alma mater, Alberts.

It is only by creating a modification to the way that the representative organizations are run that we will prevent the end of the music industry as we know it.