C H Wood

Worthing, UK

director/producer

There are several pay per song systems available now but they have serious flaws as an internet application: For example I am a long time (founder member) supporter of musicmatch, which in most respects is an excellent piece of software. Their latest upgrade is aimed at this pay per view style market place. Overall an excellent idea, unles you are British!! Yes you read that correctly, you HAVE to have an American postcoded address to use the service. This, I am told by musicmatch, is due to "licence restrictions". Sounds like an open reason to start file sharing services again to me.

Musicmatch were the absolute last people in the world that I expected NOT to understand the global nature of the internet. Herien lies many of America's problems both politically and practically: If it's best companies ignore the global nature of internet access, whenever it is comvenient to make money (albiet from Americans!!) then it just shows how parochial some of the viewpoints are on so many other subjects.

I was seriously annoyed (having paid my money for an upgrade) to find I was in the same group of people as terrorists and criminals...because I did not have a postal address in the states (and you cannot fool it as you need a credit card registered address in the USA).

I suppose this is how the huge numbers of people being fingerprinted on entry, like common criminals, will feel as they go into the states. Stand by for the backlash please.

It just shows how seriously we all need global policies and viewpoints, along with global trade agreements.

The only good thing about this...well I know the majority of Americans would agree with me.

Now let us go over that constiutional point again...the one about what you can do to anyone who is not an American.

Sorry guys, but it is deeply embedded in the culture and is going to cause all sorts of havoc in the future when intelectual property is what is traded. This is just a first key example.