How to lose the p2p race
p2pnet.net news:- “P2P (peer-to-peer) video only accounts for about 10% of file swapping right now, but it’s growing at triple-digit rates,” says Eric Garland.
Quoted in by Investors.com, he’s the ceo web tracking research firm Big Champagne and, “more than 9 million people log on to a P2P network worldwide each day, and that grows each year despite intense efforts by the entertainment industry to shut down the ones that operate illegally,” the story has him saying.
It goes on, “it’s going to get even tougher to stop the flow. In addition to P2P networks, numerous Web sites have surfaced that offer enough video content to fill a movie rental store.
“These Web sites essentially are search engines like Google, but focused on video. They don’t host the content but provide an Internet link that connects users to wherever the content is located, on a central server or someone’s personal computer.”
Investors.com also says according to “analysts,” the corpulent entertainment industry, “will never be able to stop to flow of unauthorized copyrighted content across the Web” and, “Rather than trying to stanch the flow, the entertainment industry should do a better job at cashing in on the trend, they say.
“You can throw a police force at it, but it will still exist,” says Stan Rogow, “a producer and writer with a string of Hollywood shows and movies to his credit,” adding:
“It’s just a new method of distribution.”
Hoisting their non-Broadcast Flags
The entertainment cartels claim they have hundreds of sites distributing ‘legal’ music and movies. In fact, there’s only a handful, and not one of them is successful.
iTunes is going great guns! – you say. But in truth, compared to what’s happening in the real, independent online world , iTunes doesn’t even register.
There is, however, an ever-increasing number of brand new sites going online, thanks to the efforts of independent innovators and creators hoisting non-Broadcast Flags.
MyBloop is one.
“Users can upload, and share, an unlimited number of files, listen to music, create playlists, back up files —- and there’s nothing to download or install,” p2pnet posted in a Q&A with one of the founders. “They have total control of personal data and can keep private information from prying eyes, promises the group.”
Britain’s TV Links is another.
“Who are you?” – its FAQ asks, answering, “Commoners.”
“Is this site legal?” – it goes on. “Don’t make me call my lawyer.”
But, emphasising the point made in Investors.com, “We provide links, nothing is wrong with that,” it says, continuing:
Money? Register? Nope.
We do NOT support downloading – do NOT ask us for it, do NOT mention it.
In Toronto, Canada, Wassim has just opened TV Kalendar to organize tv show torrents and episode information.
“What’s behind it?” – p2pnet asked him
“There are calendars available online that display show info and air dates, he explained, going on:
After a long day at school, the last hassle one needs is having to track down what episode was actually missed (sometimes those number “sXXeYY” screw you over so you need to use episode info), and then having another couple of windows open with different torrent sites, AND having to chose a torrent based on seeder/leecher ratio, right language, and making sure it wasn’t submitted by one of the “associations”.
Enter http://www.tvkalendar.com.
Wassim, who’s at the University of Toronto reading neuroscience and French,
is also working on a sister site dedicated solely to anime, which’ll organize both raw and fansub torrents, as well as animes uploaded to YouTube.
It’d pay the cartels to throw in the towel when it comes to trying to sue the P2P communities into toeing the corporate line. They’d be much better off working with them: that way everyone would benefit and the entertainment industry would start winning, instead of losing, customers.
Also See:
Investors.com – Hollywood Reeling From Illegal Movie, TV Downloads, April 2, 2007
doesn’t even register – 1 billion songs a DAY shared online, March 8, 2007
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Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local politicians. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance. Don’t just complain. Do something!
June 19th, 2007 at 1:18 am
Nah, let the cartels keep fighting! That way, innovation in p2p is sure to overtake them and put them out of business permnanently!
June 19th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
http://www.natch.net/stuff/78_license/
No license is granted to use this record when sold at a less price.” So I purchased this record, but I do not have a license to play it.
June 19th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Video is only 10% of p2p traffic? Nonsense. That simply cannot be correct.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
EXACTLY!!!! Don’t extend a helping hand to the vicious dinosaur thrashing in the tar pit. Let it become extinct as it was meant to.