Comments on: Big Music alert: darknets are going mainstream

By: an Arse

an Arse — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:47:40 +0000

“These darknets will also make it harder to collect download statistics.”

No, not really. All other statistics related to P2P have been biased bullshit made up by the **AA groups, so they’ll probably just make up bullshit download statistics as well.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:33:32 +0000

private hubs ftw. I love how I can simply connect to my schools network share tb’s of data and laugh hysterically at all these attempts at stopping it. I easily get 10 mb/s LAN with everyone in the school (slightly less if encrypted). I know for a fact the school I am enrolled with is not the only one doing it. That means 1 song = less than a second, one movie = less than a minute, 1 dvd5 in 5-10 min, 1 dvd9 in in 20-25 min. I could get a blue Ray faster than it would take for me to put my shoes on and travel to the local rental store.

You are pathetic if you think you can stop it (those who are reading this from the anti-p2p). Lobby for corrupt laws, do whatever you feel you must but in the end file sharing will continue and your only going to lose more customers as I guarantee most the students who fileshare are also paying customers.

according to tech crunch big music will surrender in 2011. how much truth that holds, we’ll wait and see.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/08/big-music-will-surrender-but-not-until-at-least-2011/

By: Jakykong

Jakykong — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:31:56 +0000

Even relatively large darknets can be difficult to dismantle. Thanks to our friend, the small world principle, we can all connect to those people we know, and a massive network will suddenly be formed. But the RIAA would have to connect in the same way (especially if everything is encrypted in transit), and they’d find that they can only get to their nearest neighbors. Anyone else would be an indirect connection, at best.

I like the way Freenet works, in many ways. The only problems I have with it are the inability of the network to handle lots of users just connecting and disconnecting willy-nilly, and the fat that whoever is on it stores arbitrary data — which they may not be that inclined to store, given the choice. Although I understand why the network is designed that way, I still wish there were a better protocol for the slightly less paranoid among us.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:08:36 +0000

These darknets will also make it harder to collect download statistics and pay the creators using these stats.

So, the kartels close yet another door in front of those who create.