Comments on: The coming p2p marketplace http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4930 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4930/comment-page-1#comment-14166 Reader's Write Tue, 24 May 2005 14:04:48 +0000 #comment-14166 This is the same situation that has happened over and over again in the Old Economy vs. New Economy conflict. Those entrenched in power in the Old economy, who have the resources and the poilitical clout feel very threatened by technology innovations because: a) they don't understand them. With this group, if they do not understand it, therefore it is 'bad' and must be regulated, controlled, stifled, or made illegal. b) many of these technologies have the basic design feature of decentralized control. The internet is the prime example of this. There is no one single place that you can go, push a button, and turn off the entire internet, like you could with the Northeast Power Grid, a telephone switching center, etc. This makes it much harder to accomplish a) c) they don't understand how they can control it. Well, they can't, entirely, because of b). To their way of thinking, in order to make money off of it, they need to be able to control it completely, like the studios do now with movie releases (inside leaks aside) where they have the PR and marketing build-up to a release, an opening date, all sorts of foo-furrah at the opening, then plans for overseas distribution, syndication, release on DVDs, TV rights, etc. The traditional control mechanisms (enforced by laws and the Government) are either very ineffective, or simply don't apply. As a result, their feelings of being threatened turn into lawsuits, pressure campaigns upon the Government to "do something about these criminals", and alot of lies, PR, spin, and misinformation to feed the media in an effort to convince the public to stick with the Old way of doing it "because that's the way it's always been done, and it's been working so well up to now, hasn't it?" Yeah, only because it fills their bank accounts. This is the same situation that has happened over and over again in the Old Economy vs. New Economy conflict.

Those entrenched in power in the Old economy, who have the resources and the poilitical clout feel very threatened by technology innovations because:

a) they don’t understand them. With this group, if they do not understand it, therefore it is ‘bad’ and must be regulated, controlled, stifled, or made illegal.

b) many of these technologies have the basic design feature of decentralized control. The internet is the prime example of this. There is no one single place that you can go, push a button, and turn off the entire internet, like you could with the Northeast Power Grid, a telephone switching center, etc. This makes it much harder to accomplish a)

c) they don’t understand how they can control it. Well, they can’t, entirely, because of b). To their way of thinking, in order to make money off of it, they need to be able to control it completely, like the studios do now with movie releases (inside leaks aside) where they have the PR and marketing build-up to a release, an opening date, all sorts of foo-furrah at the opening, then plans for overseas distribution, syndication, release on DVDs, TV rights, etc. The traditional control mechanisms (enforced by laws and the Government) are either very ineffective, or simply don’t apply.

As a result, their feelings of being threatened turn into lawsuits, pressure campaigns upon the Government to “do something about these criminals”, and alot of lies, PR, spin, and misinformation to feed the media in an effort to convince the public to stick with the Old way of doing it “because that’s the way it’s always been done, and it’s been working so well up to now, hasn’t it?” Yeah, only because it fills their bank accounts.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4930/comment-page-1#comment-14160 Reader's Write Tue, 24 May 2005 07:32:09 +0000 #comment-14160 Good story. As to this: "Whether, in our own case, our own Berlin Wall will fall and the tyranny of big interests stomping on the little guy will be relegated to the ash heap of history, remains to be seen." If history is our teacher the wall will fall. After all, the sale of ink and paper was regulated so that no one who was not authorized by the court of the king could spread their stories. Now the same minds want to use the courts to regulate the net so the the music cannot be spread except by the gougers who spread the worst kind of music. Rafael Venegas http://www.gvenegas.com Good story. As to this:
“Whether, in our own case, our own Berlin Wall will fall and the tyranny of big interests stomping on the little guy will be relegated to the ash heap of history, remains to be seen.”

If history is our teacher the wall will fall. After all, the sale of ink and paper was regulated so that no one who was not authorized by the court of the king could spread their stories.

Now the same minds want to use the courts to regulate the net so the the music cannot be spread except by the gougers who spread the worst kind of music.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

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