P2P Calls in Air Strikes
Published March 28, 2003
Likewise, those who already use the Internet regularly now take it for granted, rely on it heavily, and view its disappearance as unthinkable. Yet mass utilization of the Net is barely a decade old. Citizens will not readily give up the new freedoms of the Net regardless of the collateral damage inherent in our transition to a digital civilization.
Like any powerful technology, the Internet has inherent positive and negative aspects. The same ability to post e-mails and information anonymously that enhances freedom of expression in totalitarian nations also facilitates the surreptitious activities of terrorists and pedophiles. The same massive databases that facilitate global commerce and government efficiency are also vulnerable to assaults on security, and can erode personal privacy.
More relevant to our focus today, digital technology allows for the perfect reproduction of infinite number of copies of copyrighted media of all types, and their near-instantaneous distribution through the Internet to a global audience, at a marginal cost approaching zero. This aspect of digital technology promises tremendous potential cost savings for the entertainment industry, but also renders enforcement of traditional copyright law difficult to impossible. Copyright law may promise certain exclusive rights of reproduction and distribution to authors and owners, but digital technology severely undermines the ability to make good on that pledge.
The Power of Exponential Change
P2P is the natural and inevitable results of the evolution of the Internet. P2P is not some feature of or add-on to the Internet but is the inherent blueprint of this network of networks. It results from the intersection of personal computers with extremely fast processors and huge hard drives with wired and wireless broadband networks. Moore's Law informs us that computing power and speed doubles roughly every 18 months. That is, every year and a half ratchets upward another notch on the digital Richter scale. Digital technology brings with it an exponential rate of change — and we are already well past the tipping point for the transformation of the traditional entertainment industry business model.
Let me cite a personal example: When I purchased my first home desktop computer in 1996 the largest hard drives I could obtain was 5 gigabytes (GB). Last year I purchased a Nomad Jukebox portable MP3 player so that I could take part of my personal collection of more than 1000 compact discs (CDs) with me on my many travels. That CD player-sized device has a 6 GB hard drive - bigger than my first desktop computer's — capable of holding about 100 CD's worth of music in MP3 compression format. Last month, I purchased the new Zen Jukebox, which is small and light enough to fit in my shirt pocket but has a 20 GB hard drive capable of holding 350 CD's worth of music. Moore's Law informs us that within three years I will be able to purchase, for the same $300, a still smaller device with an 80 GB hard drive capable of holding 1400 CD's worth of music, or more than my entire collection.
- P2P Calls in Air Strikes
- Published: March 28, 2003
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this was great i am happy to see that others are benifiting to open mindness
of new technologies/ and sad to see that the world is all about price gouging/ worries of hollywood suicide and most inportant greed. I believe point in case
as a consumer of movies and music and will come straight out and say it as no one else will -fear of are goverment I guess.
1. movies-are so many experience good and bad /sad and happy -and so many experinces have been held on the cinimatic screen exploited/ and life situations to catastrophies of floods/earthquakes to aliens and how we view them. theaters are great experinces
but some times the translation is lost
and can only be gained by home expirence . thanks to technolgy we have that choice. are own tiny theater -surround
speakers /flat screen tv's -can you accually blame people for not wanting to sit in a theatre were some lady smells and has a crying baby. also might i add
that downloading of a movie is a differn't experiance all together-you have this wierd tech-feeling you get that we accually have moved into the future 2004. That u can not belive that u are accually watching this on a computer and quite an overwellming feeling just ask the executives of the movie industry /when they wanted to know exactly what was going on with the p2p
and one them said ooh let me show u and downloaded the matrix revolutions. so point in case no matter if u are watching it on a hollywood screen or
a computer screen-if u like what u watched -its most likly going to influince you to purchase it on dvd.
(mundanity i love it.)
1. big fish-saw in theatre -bought it on dvd
2. finding nemo-down·load·ed-bought it on dvd
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Music it enriches are lives its one thing everyone agrees on -just not the form/ rap/hip-hop/ and boy bands and fake corporation meglaconglomerates
are now choosing the way we are to listen to music/ and how we are to view
who's hot and who's not. show's like american idol that cuts people's dreams and hopes down to size that does not fit the profile in fashion/and music style are outcasted. music should not be this way/ 2004 music terms are lets take the-sex out /no drugs/ hay what about just the rock and we can sell it as is.
nope it just doen't happen that way . some of the best groups like the sex-pistols were wacked out of their minds and made the best music. can u
imagine what john lennon would have been
like without drugs. the groups that no
one will hear such as revolver exept in small circles. here's my biggest point I own 3000 cd's used to have 2000 tapes
but traded them in for cd's. but still downloaded music to hear the new upcoming bands that no one wanted u to hear too controversial i guess. And help
people to experince music that they would not open up to. and vice versa
I have helped a 50 year old man to gain music back that his ex-threw out and thought he would never hear ever again.
Some of this music i downloaded I thought was good but not good enough to buy-as the letter to senator murry states just samplings never albums.
in a couple of cases was given full albums/ but one was the new mattalica and it just sucked sooooo bad that i gave it away. the other a new anthrax album-which i kept but plan to buy or get it at a pawn shop for the cover art .
and info in the jacket. so bottom line
music is music whatever the jonra. i have been buying cd's so long and also enjoy finding groups on the net like maroon 5 /overkill and d.r.i / groups not many listen too. last point -distrubution of these kind of music
can be bought but are hard to find it's either bidding on ebay for em-or special order. just try and find scars of the crucifix -from deicide not a liked group but hay someone listens to it.
thanks for the time/ viva la p2p controversy and the history that is made.