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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
The "correct type of diversity" suggests that some person or organisation controls this. As you have been suggesting that the Govts lead on this, I'm assuming you want the Govts to control the diversity.
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Again, I am suggesting that the Government is going to regulate the business of monetization of the arts, just as the Government is regulating just about every other business out there. There is no reason that Internet movie downloading, p2p networks, Google Books and Wirelessly connected E-Ink readers shouldn't also have some type of Government regulation regulating how they should work.
The way I expect the recommendations algorithms to be made available is by hooking into open APIs. Thus if you think you have a good algorithm, you may submit your algorithm and it will instantly start calculating recommendations for anyone who would like to try using your recommendations engine.
My point, is that I do not want Amazon to control the only recommendations engine out there for movies on IMDB and I do not want Google to control theirs being the only recommendations engines having access to their mountains worth of digitized books. It makes no sense that only one company has the databases and apply on it only their own proprietary recommendations algorithms. That is why the Government needs to regulate the way in which any algorithm can interact with the global database system for all the artists, all works, all digital and analog file fingerprints and for all the users.
It's basically like an Open Social for the database of all artists, works, files and users and then a centralized standard for monetizing all that. Basically the Government collecting tax or/and taxing at the ISP level or/and harmonizing subscription plans, and then them making sure that the money is redistributed to the artists that deserve it using totally open and fair principles of popularity, quality, influence and stuff like that which are in the open and verifiable by several independent institutes for audience and usage measurement and analytics.
You may still sell stuff however you want commercially if you want. You can still sell hard covers (if they don't destroy too many forests), you may still sell CDs and DVDs if that makes your corporation happy. But there absolutely needs to be a monetization standard for the bulk of the file transfers that will happen from peers to peers, without DRM and using only the open standards that users will accept to use.