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from the are-utilities-really-optional dept.
Broadband Internet access is a "core utility" that people need in order to participate in modern society– just like electricity, running water, and sewers, the White House said on Tuesday. A report written by the Broadband Opportunity Council, a group created earlier this year by President Obama and co-chaired by the Secretaries of Commerce and Agriculture, says that even though broadband "has steadily shifted from an optional amenity to a core utility," millions of Americans still lack high-speed Internet access.
The report cites 2013 data indicating that about 51 million Americans, or about 16 percent of the population, cannot purchase broadband access at their homes. That number may have dropped by now, but the White House says the government needs to make a bigger push to expand broadband deployment, especially in rural areas and low-income communities.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 25 2015, @08:35AM
I never said someone else should be able to sell your work. but why shouldn't they be able to copy it for no compensation?
if you don't want your "work" to be distributed outside your control, then don't do the "work".
but if you're paid to hold a concert, and I record your concert, what rights do you have on my recording? you're paid for playing at the concert, not for anything else. you're welcome to forbid people from recording you, and I see nothing wrong with that, although I don't see how you can enforce it.
however, if a recording is made, the owner of the recording should only demand compensation proportional to the amount of wear and tear that the copying process produces on the physical object holding the recording.