Peer Impact. Back again
p2p news / p2pnet: Peer Impact is about as far away from the true concept of p2p as it’s possible to get.
It’s a venal, hard-core commercial corporation which unsuccessfully tries to pass itself off as a p2p ‘community’.
However, the first four names in its ‘partners’ list put everything into perspective. They are Warner Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Vivendi Universal.
Now it and NBC Universal are trying to pass off a one-day movie rental scheme as a ‘p2p’ service.
Owned by Wurld Media, Peer Impact touts something it calls Peer Cash, which has nothing to do with real money. Under it, marks are expected to allow Peer Impact into their computers so it can use them to funnel sales.
“Passive Distribution simply means that you leave your computer on and Peer Impact running so that the files you have purchased on Peer Impact remain available to the network,” states the company. “In this scenario, if you happen to have a file that another member wants to purchase, Peer Impact may choose you as a source based on a series of criterion.”
p2pnet thought this looked a lot like the Weed resale concept combined with a failed Brilliant Digital Entertainment / Joltid idea to get into punters’ systems and cash in on the results, as we said a while back.
p2pnet reader Scratches Head commented at the time, “Let me get this right, I pay for my internet connection, electricity, and for the music. I leave the computer on and hooked up and load my drives with music. IF I am lucky enough that someone uses my bandwidth to get the song, I get what? This isn’t even real money. I doubt that my utilities would accept this (what was it again?) Peer Cash, as payment for their services.
“No matter what I do in this process it is always going to cost, no matter how many songs people chose to d/l from me. The theoritical is rarely going to be met. This is closer to pymarid selling than an opportunity with just another scheme to slice away from you the user money and in this case your bandwidth also. Must be nice to get such ardent supporters to defend it as well.”
Drake Zamanov also had a hilarious take-off featuring the infamous Aussie Matt.
Now, NBC U says it’s “loaning” titles to Peer Impact.
“Peer Impact users will pay a fee to download a TV show or film and will have access to it for 24 hours,” says Variety.
Fees “have not been set by Wurld Media” but are expected to be about $4, “or roughly what cablers charge for video-on-demand”.
Just how stupid do these people think we are?
Needless to say, the lamescream media are ‘reporting’ this as though it’s a real service from credible companies.
Also read:-
Variety – NBC U loans out titles to Peer Impact, November 17, 2005
hilarious take-off – The NEW Peer Impact, August 16, 2005
while back – Peer Impact and Peer Cash, July 20, 2005
November 21st, 2005 at 6:59 pm
You missed the Peer Impact annoucement about games also geez you guys are behind the times .
http://www.wurldmedia.com/p11-15-05-pi.html
November 21st, 2005 at 7:32 pm
heh
November 22nd, 2005 at 7:12 am
The good news is, they only have to include the name “Sony” and you can be certain it contains malware intent on infringing your privacy rights.
November 22nd, 2005 at 1:02 pm
Wait till Mashboxx and Grokster 3G arive on the pay p2p scene
Proposed pay services that are backed by Sony BMG .
November 22nd, 2005 at 7:23 pm
Peer Impact is a great platform. With Music, Games, and now Movies you just cant beat it, if your willing to play by the book!!!
Content I would have normally purchased anyway, I’ve earned enough “peercash”, to buy myself a game costing 19.99.
No to mention I’ve already made 2 dollars in peercash with my free game; I now can buy even more content.
If someone is willing to pay for their content and do things legally you can’t beat this Platform as a pay p2p. Don’t knock it till you try it guys.
For a pay P2P I must say…”the stuff Wurld has been doing is pretty impressive”