file sharing in Italy

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It looks like Italy is set to legalise file sharing as long as the files are of diminished quality.

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I have to say that, IMHO, this is 'a good thing'™ and entirely sensible law. Watching a low-quality version of a film is more likely to make me want to buy a HD-DVD or Blu-ray version of the film than imprisoning me for downloading it. This will also, most likely, lead to the development of well catalogued sites in Italy that list the films/ music well with lots of detail - more so than the torrent sites provide. These sites should theoretically be able to make a profit through advertising (making a profit for the service they're providing rather than from the files themselves) and thus everyone wins.

Agree/disagree?
 
fini said:
I have to say that, IMHO, this is 'a good thing'™ and entirely sensible law. Watching a low-quality version of a film is more likely to make me want to buy a HD-DVD or Blu-ray version of the film than imprisoning me for downloading it.
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disagree on that point, once I have seen a film in any sort of watchable quality I would have no desire to buy a better quality version
 
i don't understand all the technical jargon. Are they saying that if Joesphi Figarachio went into the local cinema and cam-recorded Saw10, then uploaded it to t'interweb, and "I" in the UK downloaded it and Bennichio Bella Bella downloaded it in Italy, that the only person to be potentially breaking the law is me?
 
I dont like the sound of degrading the quality. No point in getting it if its un-listenable/watchable.
 
What can you class as diminished quality, a DVD Rip with a few pixels purposly made black could be classed as diminished quality

EDIT: Wait, that link doesnt say anything about movies, its purely music
 
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According to the article, it implies anything except lossless. In which case it's pretty much filesharing copywrighted stuff being legal...
 
Rotty said:
maybe for some but if I have seen the film why would I then want to buy it ? I know what happens :confused:
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Allot of films are re watchable, I know I watch allot of films at least once every 2 years. Saving Private Ryan, Godfather, West Wing Tv series, Top Gun etc etc
 
If you're an IP holder, this is very bad news.

Who makes the arbitary decision of what quality is low enough that it should be free to distribute?

A new model is required for music/television/movie sales, but this is not the answer.
 
^ Couldn't have put it btter myself.......

It's obviously ridiculous to legalise downloading where no money goes back to the origional artist. Fair enough the record companies over charge for albums but that doesn't mean they shouldn't charge something and that the origional recording atist shouldn't get something. Legalising the download of copyright material without record company involvment makes no sense what so ever and can only be detrementle to the music scene in general.
 
As far as mp3s go, it could work. You could say 96kbps and below was low quality.

As for films.... it sounds a bit rubbish.
 
Uncompressed audio files lose data when compressed to MP3 (since its a lossy compression algorithm), so technicaly, all mp3s are diminished quality of the original. So intentional or not, mp3 trading is now legal in italy i guess.
 
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