p2p ‘high tech battle’
p2pnet.net News:- The only certainty for 2004 will be: every each time you say “Peer to Peer” or “Download music,” new people try digital media.
Moreover, the “P2P WAR” could quickly become an underground “high tech battle” for which “lobbyists” aren’t ready.
So says Canada’s ITIC.
In an opinion intriguingly entitled P2P War – Non Collateral Casualties: $5.5 Billion For Music, Quebec-based ITIC says:
“During the past year, the monthly business leakage occasioned by digital music piracy had been oscillating in-between $300M and $700M, most of the time averaging to ~ $450M.
“As previously stated, no correlation methodology neither regression system had offered a clear and unobjectionable way to establish any interaction of the lawsuits campaigns onto the phenomenon called ‘illegal downloads’ although some light ‘border effects’ could have been observed.
“Having gathered sufficient useful data and facts to estimate what the current overall worldwide figures may look like at the end of the year, the Digital Intelligence Center now considers that business leakage due to digital music downloads will be a little bit more than $5.5 billion for 2004.”
That’ll be music to the ears of the Big Four record labels who claims their multi-billion-dollar busines is being devastated by ‘digital music piracy’.
Tasteless, cookie-cutter product, Big Music’s adamant refusal to come to the terms with the fact that not only is p2p file sharing here to stay but it might actually be the solution to their problems, awful business decisions, terrible PR and other factors aren’t counted in.
‘Pirates’ are responsible for music industry woes.
“While the American Music Industry lobbyists are now aggressively stressing the major P2P operators (who are sometimes said to be “neutral”), we consider that this P2P WAR could quickly turn into an underground ‘high tech battle’ for which lobbyists are not ready yet,” says the firm, going on:
“In France, ISPs were finally involved in the process of finding technical solutions while they got the right to join the Digital Music business as a counterpart of their ‘war’ efforts against illegal downloads. Of course, they are currently spending much more time visiting R&D websites (looking for something guys?) than implementing solutions.
“Conclusion: The only certainty of the year will doubtlessly remain the fact that each time you say ‘Peer to Peer’ either ‘Download music’ … new people try digital media. The unanswered question is then about the resulting publicity around the entertainment industries and ‘pirated’ materials. Is the try people give to digital music profitable to music industry? Is the try people give to DivX profitable to movie industry? What are those $5.5 billion compared to the profit made by Music and Movie corporations?”
