I'd love some kind of federated streaming service. So that different content providers can sell their stuff, you pay once monthly into a pool, and you can choose different clients to access all content services. Then the money gets distributed depending on your viewing habits.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Legislators could just offer a very easy solution. They could simply mandate copyright holders to offer the copyright to all interested parties at a fair price. If content ist held back or only exclusively distributed through one party it should go public domain, as the holder of the rights clearly does not intend to profit in a legitimate way from.

The intend of copyright is to make sure, that the holder of the right can get a fair compensation. It is not the intend that his work is abused to manipulate the markets.

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

I came to the exact same conclusion as you. The way copyright currently works creates monopolies. Just allow anyone to distribute the media while paying the copyright holder their fair share and don't give the copyright holder complete control over who can distribute it and the issue is fixed.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Edit: quick research is looking like I'm entirely misremembering and entirely wrong. Quoting my original comment for posterity

If I'm remembering my history correctly, they actually had a similar problem in the early 20th century with movie theaters and movie studios. Studios would strong arm theatres into restrictive contracts for what they could screen, and when it looked too much like a federal law would drop restricting their behavior the industry instead opted to self-regulate and formed a private regulatory body

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah that would be the dream!

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Ehhhhhh video storage is one of those things that’s a little too data intensive to federate well