Open Letter to Music Pirates from NPR

[bakker_be]

SNIP ...
The greatest problem as I see it is the market lock in in small sub-markets with different copyrigths holders .
If one could create a global lossless download system with global pricing etc ,the market share would be big enough for real business. The US itself is just big enough to support HD-tracks. Sweden (where i live ) is to small to harbour any lossles download provider ,
i suspect it is like that in many markets .
... SNIP

If you think Sweden is too small, what about Belgium, with it's 3 different language communities That said, I can easily see an EC-wide service being viable, especially as I look at the different nationalities present in the audience at Belgian music festivals.

[lrossouw]

If you think Sweden is too small, what about Belgium, with it's 3 different language communities That said, I can easily see an EC-wide service being viable, especially as I look at the different nationalities present in the audience at Belgian music festivals.

I'm in South Africa. There is no legal way for me to purchase mp3 from international artists. Don't even think about flacs... There are a couple of local music only mp3 setups. Why are they insisting on borders when internet is global phenomenon?

[Soulkeeper]

Borders are even more outdated than ipv4. But they're going to take much longer to replace.