Better TV, Thanks p2p : )
p2p news / p2pnet:- Within the next 10 years, TV will be much more web-like, with millions of shows to download, according to a report from the UK.
Try within the next 10 minutes, if you’re a member of the p2p community.
As a frequent p2pnet poster says, “Thanks to peer to peer and many other Internet protocols, I have enjoyed a much better TV viewing experience. I no longer have to put up with the crap the satellite programmers and TV broadcasters foist onto me. Since TechTV changed its name to G4, and Leo Laporte left, it went from being a geek show to being another lamescream crap channel.
"I now get my geek TV from my broadband connection at work. I can download free (legal) programming that’s more entertaining and informative than all the sex and violence laden drivel that makes up broadcast type media.”
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Web-like, broadband TV is turning us into customers
When broadband is offered where I live, I’ll cancel my satellite service and download my entertainment. Choice is better for regulating TV than government rules.
I’m sure many others are going to do the same if they haven’t already done so. Rather than adapt and embed advertising into scenery, make movies that are actually entertaining, and charge reasonable fees for content, the media cartels would rather quash the competition and stifle innovation. First, they’re trying to do this with frivolous lawsuits. Next, they’ll go after the coders of applications en mass, and when that fails, they’ll do something else that will have little chance of success – they’ll buy out the ISP’s (the ones they don’t already own).
Once these cartels control the ISP’s, we’ll see more bandwidth restrictions, monitoring, traffic blocking, and possibly even more rules, regulations, taxes, and fees on our fat (data) pipe.
This is where people will begin to take matters into their own hands. People will begin to buy and use their own equipment to connect to their neighbors and share locally.
Many forms of TV entertainment will take a couple of days to fully propagate, but it will propagte.
Concepts like "PodCasting" are beginning to catch on. The cartels have allowed the genie to escape from the bottle, and there’s no putting it back in. The "information highway" will be either a bunch of small roads, or it will be several "super highways". Either way, the information will continue to flow whether the cartels like it or not. However, the cartels will be the ones choosing what type of information highways we have.
They can either accept the fact that we are customers instead of mindless consumers and adapt to service us, or they can continue on the same course they are on and we can service ourselves.
If the cartels shut down the "superhighway" or make it undesirable to travel, people will do what they always done before. They’ll take the back roads.
If the cartels force us take the back ways and make us use Podcasting, FreeWan, CDR’s, DVDR’s, 16 Gig flashdrives and such, they’ll be the ones left behind. The 16 Gig flashdrives themselves can hold 3 full ripped or full featured DVD’s worth of entertainment, and they’re rewritable.
Now mass storage is so cheap, one can drive around town with an entire movie store in his or her car boot. Combine this massive storage with a laptop computer that has wireless networking, and the cartels will have little control over the free flow of information.
Yes, these are the good ol’ days.
We are the boss, and the media cartels can either adapt or they can die.
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September 14th, 2005 at 4:34 pm
Hi Jon – where do you find the images you use?
September 14th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
I bet Jon is a ham radio operator and most likely an electronic circuit hacker. As such, collections of old magazines are a necessity.
September 14th, 2005 at 5:23 pm
— where do you find the images you use? —
All over the place : ) I surf around until I find something that looks adaptable without getting me into trouble (as with this pic), I get them from the site thatâs the subject of the story, or I make them from scratch.
If it’s a company, I just grab the logo. And the only complaint I’ve ever had on that score came from – you guessed it – an enterprise associated with the Big Four record label cartel. SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) got upset. Go here for the story ; D – http://p2pnet.net/story/1921
— I bet Jon is a ham radio operator and most likely an electronic circuit hacker. As such, collections of old magazines are a necessity —
Close. When I was a kid, I used to build valve (tube) radios for fun. Then Iâd to lay in bed listening to music, which sounded sweeter on a set Iâd built myself. I stopped THAT hobby when I accidentally touched a live chassis. heh
One thing I donât have that Iâd LIKE to have, though, is the occasional cartoon. So if anyone reading this is into cartooning â¦â¦â¦..
Cheers!
September 14th, 2005 at 6:17 pm
podcasts are for pensioners
September 14th, 2005 at 6:19 pm
What’s that ye say, laddie? (cough, cough) Ye’ll havta speak up !
: )
September 14th, 2005 at 8:20 pm
ahem…and me.
September 14th, 2005 at 8:58 pm
Uh… how many “pensioners” do you know that have portable mp3 players? I’m no big fan of podcasts (I will move whatever files I choose to my portable all by myself, thank you) but your post doesn’t make much sense.
September 15th, 2005 at 12:46 am
I prefer to download my tv programs now because they have all the adds/Commercial cut out.
September 15th, 2005 at 1:55 am
Right on man, good article
September 15th, 2005 at 4:46 am
good post.
We are the boss, and the media cartels can either adapt or they can die.
September 15th, 2005 at 1:13 pm
âThanks to peer to peer and many other Internet protocols, I have enjoyed a much better TV viewing experience. I no longer have to put up with the crap the satellite programmers and TV broadcasters foist onto me. Since TechTV changed its name to G4, and Leo Laporte left, it went from being a geek show to being another lamescream crap channel.”
Amen to that. I never really was into downloading shows in the beginning. The quality wasn’t that good, but it’s been improving thanks to develpments in MPEG-4. Lately I’ve been downloading a lot more, some of it free, some of it not. Usually the stuff that is not is due to conveniance. The shows do come on locally, but I sometimes miss them accidentally (despite owning a nice PVR) and you just can’t beat on-demand ad-free viewing. The most frequent stuff I download lately seems to be any of the free podcasts involving Leo Laporte (like Secutiry Now and This Week in Tech), as well as free tech shows like PBS’s NerdTV and Patrick Norton in his IPTV show DigitalLife TV. This is really the way the future is going to be, and indeed the industry can either adapt or die. They simply don’t have a choice. I think the Sci-Fi Channel has already stated publicly that they don’t really care if people download their shows (I love Battlestar Galatica and both Stargate shows for example). That is an amazing attitude if true.