Comments on: Sneakernet bigger threat than P2P file sharing

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:43:59 +0000

“I can buy portable USB terabyte drives for like $300. What is the average Johny Suburbs going to do with 1000 gigabytes of storage if he isn’t neck-deep in piracy?”

Store his home-made porn collection?

By: Sneakernet may be more damaging than filesharing - Music downloads, news and reviews

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:08:43 +0000

[…] those unfamiliar with the term, “sneakernet” refers to the act of using external devices to transfer files from one computer to another. […]

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:00:51 +0000

yeah, i think $750 is an unreasonable price for a full mp3 player. Demand is pretty high, but with costless replication, supply is essentially infinite. The Marxist value of music is therefore, close to zero.
Rekrul, we do the same thing. Have a BBQ at someone’s house, drink beer, eat sausages, trade a few hundred gigabites of data. We do this fairly regular. Part of it’s about the piracy, but part of it is that its a social thing. Its fun to hang out with people that share your hobby.
Storage is astonishingly cheap these days. I can buy portable USB terabyte drives for like $300. What is the average Johny Suburbs going to do with 1000 gigabytes of storage if he isn’t neck-deep in piracy?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:46:27 +0000

Gee you want me to buy your music…..1st…..don’t try to charge me an arm and a leg…..2nd….get rid of drm completely…..3rd…..stop trying to sell me no talent brittney clones…..!!!!!!!!!!!1

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:46:14 +0000

Gee, everything old is new again. In the 1980s, my friends and I used to get together and swap computer games. A couple of times, I attended “copy parties” where people would bring their entire collection and an extra floppy drive, and everyone went home with a ton of new games to play. Ahh, the good old days.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:29:47 +0000

You know, when my friends come over (I’m 13), I play my playlist. IF they like something, then they bring a usb drive or something and copy it over. Simple as that. My parents don’t mind, my friends’ parents don’t mind. It’s that simple.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:13:27 +0000

Many have found ways around the throttling of ISPs, the filtering of Uni ISPs, and where the internet is still not up to speed on b/w. I have long said the sue’em all would never be a solution to their problems other than creating a lot of hard feelings for the products they attempt to sell. The majors have earned themselves a black eye in the view of the public and now many would not buy from the majors, if it was the last place on earth to obtain music.

I’ve known people on satellite connections that are limited in how much they can download in a day. That has not prevented them from obtaining libraries of movies nor music. All the sue’em alls and limitations have done is increase the sneaker net where it is far harder to trace. You know, here’s a 500 gig drive, take what you want, give me in return. So much of the swapping is unrecorded by Big Champaign, because they have no way to track it. That means the figures of file swapping is far larger that the reported figures suggest.

By: Julian Bond

Julian Bond — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:47:23 +0000

Judging by the kids not a million miles away from the ones I know, this underestimates the scale of offline copying by a least a factor of 10. We’re not talking about copying the odd track off an Apple Nano, but rather taking a portable 2.5″ or 3.5″ hard drive round to a friends house and copying an entire collection. £750 worth of unbought music? We’re talking 750 CDs not 75. And that’ll be the same kids who go to a club once a week or so and intend to go to 2 or 3 festivals this summer. You know the ones, the music fanatics, the ones that have a complete and utter contempt for mainstream music.

By: Mostly Harmless

Mostly Harmless — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:43:24 +0000

“…[big music has], “a lot of big challenges it needs to face up to very quickly,” admits Sharkey.
Here’s to hoping they fail to meet those challenges and end up where they belong, out to pasture with the buggy-whip and mustache wax companies.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:40:49 +0000

Kids swap ipods all the time and copy the contents of the ipods to thier hard drives at home thats 4GB of content if its a Nano .