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p2pnet news | Daily Top 10:- You’d have thought the RIAA or maybe the MPAA, would’ve led any p2pnet Top Stories list, especially since our ad survey clearly put the Big 4 extortion unit at the top of the list of reasons why people come here, with P2P and Freedom as second and third.
One of the things I do when I pack it at the end of the day is check out Awstats to see which stories were the most read and for months, Vanessa, Miley and [wait for it 
] Barney the Revolting Purple Dinosaur have consistently scored as numbers one, two and three.
Interesting, but annoying since I’ve decided a daily Top 10 might interest some readers. But who’s going to want to know if the same two or three stories show up in the top slots every time.
p2pnet is wholly and solely a news and information blog and as such, has always carried a large range of posts on a large range of subjects.
It has not ever, and never will, carried illegal mp3 downloads, advocated counterfeiting or duplication for the purposes of selling the results on underground markets online, or anywhere else, or countenanced any other type of illegal activity.
p2pnet’s Orb Torrent Site Tracker at the top right of the page is exactly that: a torrent site tracker showing how many listings of a given song/performer are currently available, and a drop-down panel of some of the sites where they’re listed. And that’s all.
“A BitTorrent tracker is a server which assists in the communication between peers using the BitTorrent protocol,” says the Wikipedia, also noting, “A tracker should be differentiated from a BitTorrent index by the fact that it does not
Soundcards and software synthesizers
In the Mission Statement, I say p2pnet.net went online in August, 2000, and, “was the first Internet web page to carry daily, frequently updated news, stories, features and commentaries on digital media, distributed computing and associated technologies and events which haven’t been spun, filtered and pre-digested by vested corporate interests. It places special emphasis on freedom of speech and p2p sharing.”
I’ve been sharing music since the mid-90s when I discovered MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), sound-cards, software synthesizers and email, I said when Slyck interviewed me almost three years ago, going on, “I could be an entire band AND use the Net to share MIDI files with people around the world” and, “It meant jamming online. Very cool. So how could I NOT have heard about p2p? And how could I not want to be a small part of this online communications revolution which I could see was going to allow ordinary people take back their rights?”
“What do you believe would be a viable solution to stem the growth of piracy?” - asked Slyck in the Q&A, continuing >>>
Newton: “Record label and movie studio investors should organize a Shareholders Alliance, appoint someone to run it - isn’t ex-HP boss Carly Fiorina looking for a job? - and instruct him or her to disband the RIAA and MPAA and fire the senior company executives. Their collective credibility is far too sullied to be of any further practical use, and they’ve already amply demonstrated they have no clue about how to run businesses in the digital 21st century. The Alliance should then name a very small group to brainstorm how p2p can be made to work for them. This group could perhaps include people such as Jim Griffin, the EFF’s Fred von Lohmann, a representative of the members of P2P United, MUTE’s Jason Rohrer, and ex-RIAA boss Hilary Rosen. Once this group has come up with recommendations, some of the people who were fired could be re-hired to implement them.
Slyck: What should the MPAA and RIAA do to curb piracy’s prominence?
Newton: Given that the MPAA and RIAA are no more than the blunt weapons of the entertainment industry cartels, the first thing they should do is: stop trying to sue their customers into buying. It’ll take a while, but they’ll eventually begin to recover some of the goodwill they’ve squandered. The cartels should then immediately open their entire catalogues to the people they’ve more or less designated as their principal sales fronts, with iTunes and Napster II to the fore. This content should be licensed to distributors (including the current p2p operators) at reasonable prices so people can buy tracks at between 10 and 25 cents per download. The organized criminals - the ‘pirates’ - depend largely on physical product to ply their illicit trades. They’ll find it a hell of a lot harder to operate when music and movie lovers are buying fairly priced music and movies from adequately stocked download sites. The RIAA and MPAA should also stop spending ridiculous amounts of money publicizing the very thing they’re trying to quell. P2p and the digital media represent tremendous opportunities, not death knells.
Slyck: What would be your ideal solution to balancing the needs of the MPAA/RIAA and that of the average P2P and file-sharing participant (consumer)?
Newton: See above, and let’s remember consumers are customers again, and they’re in a spanking new economic territory which has never existed before. They, and not the corporations, have the power of control. It’s called freedom of choice. New technologies always threaten the old, established ones whose owners do everything they can to maintain the status quo. Eventually, though, they cave in, and go with the flow and peace reigns (until it happens all over again ; )
My views are pretty much the same today. Sharing is now, and always has been, a principal form of communications. It doesn’t matter if it’s by word of mouth or electronically and I write about sharing in a positive way because I honestly believe, contrary to music industry statements, but in accordance with a number of authoritative academic and commercial studies, that it’s an effective form of viral advertising and as such, is probably one of the reasons the Big 4 labels and their anachronistic business models are still managing to survive.
But I digress and —
—- to get back to the matter in hand, p2pnet started running under Word Press a little under a year ago —- in July, 2007, to be precise —- and the Top 10 stories as of 8:46 am Pacific were:
‘Vanessa Hudgens nude’ saga continues - 133,980
Hudgens nude: full frontal faux pas - 106,910
Vanessa Hudgens: naked again - 94,807
New Vanessa Hudgens pics online - 65,032
Huge CRIA audiomaxxx.com screw up - 46,312
UK’s www.tv-links.co.uk busted - 37,102
Bloody Barney: Oh, the Horror! - 31,475
Body found: Emily Sander/Zoey Zane? - 29,176
RIAA student victimisation campaign - 26,996
Barney, Bloody Barney - 25,621
See what I mean?
So what I’ll be doing is leaving out the Vanessa, Miley and Barney posts and listing the next stories in line, and the tag ‘Celebrities’ at the top will be replaced by Daily top 10 (although celebrities will continue to exist as a prefix to stories).
By way of example, at 8:51 am Pacific today the Top Ten list for the last seven days is:
Miley Cyrus naked (almost) - 19,081
‘Vanessa Hudgens nude’ saga continues - 11,804
Hudgens nude: full frontal faux pas - 6,996
More ’scandalous’ Miley Cyrus pix online - 5,645
Rogers ups the traffic throttling ante - 3,977
New Vanessa Hudgens pics online - 3,648
Another bad day for the RIAA - 3,525
Bill Ray didn’t OK Miley Cyrus ‘topless’ - 3,198
Huge CRIA audiomaxxx.com screw up - 2,302
Miley Cyrus sexy bed-sheet scandal: XVII - 2,12
But if I remove references to Barney, et al, I get:
Rogers ups the traffic throttling ante - 3,977
Another bad day for the RIAA - 3,525
Huge CRIA audiomaxxx.com screw up - 2,302
Bell Sympatico P2P Black List - 1,266
6 teens beat girl for ’shock’ YouTube video - 992
SoundExchange artists who’ve lost their money - 820
Why does Harvard escape the RIAA? - 780
Ashley Alexandra Dupre vs Girls Gone Wild - 749
Canadians vs Bell Canada: CAIP, II - 663
Lindsay Lohen as Marilyn: naked online - 535
And if I leave out all reference to the Ashleys and Lindsays of the world, it’ll be different again.
Or should I just do a completely separate celebrities Top 10?
Anyway, be all of the above as it may, we’ll be kicking off the p2pnet Daily Top 10 sometime next week.
Cheers! And thanks. And all the best …
Jon Newton - p2pnet
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May 4th, 2008 at 11:05 am
I’m a little sad for the world we live in and the people in it…
But I’m not surprised….
May 4th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Jon you could argue that you link to copyrighted material through the torrent site tracker; an adjunct if you will. Ergo you are propagating theft of intellectual property. It is tantamount to listing direct links to torrents, which you have removed in the past.
Is there really any difference between linking to a link, and linking to a search engine which yields links? I think not; Be very careful Jon, or you may find yourself on the receiving end of a lawsuit,
May 4th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
hola yo ablo epaniol solo queria desir que nunca avia vito algo asi
(Approximate translation - “I speak Spanish but I’ve never seen anything like this.”)
May 4th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
“Jon you could argue that you link to copyrighted material through the torrent site tracker ….”
It’s getting so no matter what you do online some entity, somewhere, somehow, is going to come after you with a defamation lawsuit, or some such.
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12640 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5230776.stm
Freedom of speech and the concept of innocent until proven guilty? Not if the corporations can help it.
But sadly for them, thanks to the Net, we’ve become our own sources of news and information. Also, our skills and innovations, not theirs, keep the wheels of commerce and everything else turning.
Think about it.
Cheers!
May 4th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
It’s sad when pedophilia becomes the top story with the most hits.
This is an alarming look at the world today, and a warning to watch over our daughters and nieces carefully. They are obviously interested in them.
I could sink a baseball bat into the skull with no remorse, for the man that thinks he can touch my young daughter or niece. Remember that I am not the only one that feels this way, when you prowl for young girls. You have been warned…
May 4th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I cannt beiev you
May 4th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
you are the best miley
May 4th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
I”m sorry, but your too young for that NECADE stuff, but I still like your MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 4th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Hi, Jon:
I like the idea of having more than 1 Top 10 list (more work for you, I know!). One for celebrity news, and the other for P2P. As you noted above, the celebrity news may eliminate P2P news from the Top 10 entirely, and in that case only one Top 10 would give a very skewed picture of what this website is about.
My 2 cents.
May 4th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
^^ Wotcha Dorothy:
I think I’ll just weed out Vanessa & Co and maybe do a celebrities Top 10 every now and then — like every 10 years?
Cheers!
May 4th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
hi miley!!! waz up girl
May 4th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Hey Vanessa
jus chillin
May 4th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
This also raises intriguing sociological questions with fascinating cross-cultural implications which may also to a degree reflect on psycho-personal characteristics bearing on the development of pre- and post-pubescent females and their effect on un- and/or under-developed males.
Don’t you think?
Cheers!
May 5th, 2008 at 8:22 am
I demand a recount!
:p
May 5th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
miley is a big ugly stupid anoying person in the world
May 7th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
“This is an alarming look at the world today, and a warning to watch over our daughters and nieces carefully. They are obviously interested in them.”
Yes, because when an adult male sees an adult female that he finds attractive, he feels completely safe, society-approved lust for her, but would never, ever, in a million years, think of touching her without her consent. But when an adult male sees a teenage girl that he finds attractive, he instantly turns into a drooling rapist who can only barely resist the urge to throw the girl to the ground and jump on top of her right then and there, because of the fear of being arrested.
May 11th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Mine arent as bad as Vanessa Hudgens pictures. Rite?
June 11th, 2008 at 4:02 am
Ok, for some reason I just want to say this even though it’s very obvious and even though I know people will say “Duh!”. The last comment is so not Miley Cyrus. Anyway, I would just like to say I hate Vanessa Hudgens. My cousin is a fan of her, so I hate my cousin too. Her name is Aila, and she’s always showing off like Vanessa Hudgens. “Oh look at me, look at my new clothes, oh I’m so famous, oh look Zac Efron is my BF,” Vanessa would say and Aila would say, “Oh look at me Cheska, I’m going to the new Hannah Montana 3D concert and you’re not!” I can’t stand her! But lucky for me, the 3D concert will premiere on tv and I got the goggles. Vanessa is plastic. She would be like so innocent and a role model to kids but in reality she’s just a Britney Spears wannabe because of her shitty video and pictures. Hope you die soon, Vanessa! Keep on rocking Miley! Don’t go near her, she’ll make you like her!
June 19th, 2008 at 11:16 am
i think you are shitty cheska venesa is a fine singer just a bad romodel but miley you rock sorry cheska you idiot butthead
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
OMG JON U SAID BITTORRENT!!! U ARE SO GONNA GET SUED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Somebody mentioned pedofilia,but where I live only pedofilia is considered,when it regards human under age 15.(But not sure…
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July 20th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
From past experience I believe what Jon believes should happen in regard to music is what will happen. The cartels can see the potential for paid downloads, but they know people will always choose a free alternative if available, unless its cheap enough and reliable. Plus they’ve soiled their own image. This free material is unfortunately only a fraction of music catalogs. I believe they will eventually open up their catalogs for online distribution, realizing its their only hope. Currently they are too arrogant to lower prices, but that will change, specifically because a million sales at 20c is better than 34 sales at $3. Also it would lower the incentive to share, and with free music being harder to find and less reliable, more would turn to where it can be found. Non-hits should be even cheaper, and so an album should be no more than $2. You have to realize it needs to appeal to the majority who are poor. The Web is international, not just US based. They’d have to forget about their geographical price fixing.
July 20th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
All men find young girls physically attractive and adorable but that doesn’t make them pedophiles. Most of us too would feel the same about protecting our daughters or nieces and would do anything or go to any lengths to protect them in the heat of the moment. Acts of retribution would also appeal to most, but when the moment came, and the mongrel is cowering on the floor, whimpering for his life, what would we do then? I dare say that even though we would get off lightly, many of us decent types without experience would find it difficult to use our baseball bat, and would grudgingly hand the matter over to the police, out of our respect for life and the law.
July 20th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
In our screwed up society it has become the norm to brand as pedophiles any who so much look at a young girl admiringly. Heaven help them if they were to smile or speak, let alone touch them. As a consequence of extreme brainwashing in schools and by the media, this has turned our innocent young girls into creatures inhibited and suspicious of all men, but curious and eager as to what all this bad behaviour is about, and thus they turn to their peers for advice and ways to investigate with those which society accepts; boys of about the same age. And thus from a very young age they are becoming sex objects and keen to try out all this stuff so prevalent in older ones and encouraged by the majority to do so. Even their parents dress them as sex objects as if luring sexual attention.
Since normal men are made to feel guilty about even looking at a young girl or especially pictures involving them, they mistakenly come to believe they are actually pedophiles, and this has a harmful effect on their mentality and their lives. Many go around acting with inhibitions and looking guilty unnecessarily. Feelings of worthlessness may take hold, and even suicide may be contemplated. Some may even look into porn out of curiosity and because of it being readily available online. This has become the modern day witch hunt, complete with entrapment and disproportionate penalties.