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Will Spotify and Netflix replace the cinema, the library and the concert hall?
The on-demand and streaming services industry is growing explosively. With streaming services like Spotify and Netflix, you can watch films and series and listen to music online for a fee. But the rapid digital developments are not going to replace the cinema, the library or the concert hall, says multidisciplinary technology expert and entrepreneur Danny…
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Dutch Film industry sues the State; Copyright is outdated
It was banned a year ago, but Dutch people still continue to illegally download films and TV series like nothing happened. Serves the industry right, say internet and film experts. Absolute nonsense, say film producers. The two camps have become diametrically opposed now that Dutch film industry copyrights organisation Sekam is holding the State responsible…
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‘Ban on downloading is pointless’
The ban on downloading from illegal sources doesn’t do much good in the Netherlands. That’s what jurist and technology expert Danny Mekić told the Dutch news agency ANP. In order to enforce this ban, the government would need to monitor all internet data traffic. That would soon lead to privacy issues, Mekić thinks. Furthermore, to…
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No downloading, no Spotify, no innovation
Music revenue is on the rise exactly because of the internet Record labels are abandoning legal music downloading service Spotify. The Dutch government wants to make it a punishable offence to download from anywhere else. This works counter-productively. The previous weekend, 234 record labels announced they would no longer be offering their artists’ music on…
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Downloading is not theft: the record player doesn’t work any more
Last week, Sony announced they were going to stop manufacturing walkmans — you know, those things with the audio cassettes — while Arnoud Engelfriet and I wrote an opinion piece on online innovation in the music and film industry: are they succeeding at making money off distributing copyrighted material? Downloading is not theft, because copyrights…