P2P Calls in Air Strikes
Published March 28, 2003
And Sen. Murray, without any need for the Internet, I could bring it by your house and in the time it takes to have a cup of coffee we could transfer that 1400 CD's worth of music to your personal computer through a firewire connection. That is what's known as the "sneakernet" - the person-to-person physical transfer of digital media.
Meanwhile, in three years, the 20 GB shirt pocket MP3 player I have now will be available for about $75, a price point that will vastly expand the customer base for such devices.
The digital transformation of the entertainment industry is just in its infancy. In a recent interview Mark Andreessen, who launched the Mosaic World Wide Web (www) browser 10 years ago, founded Netscape, and gave rise to the Internet age, observed, "Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.... With the Internet, we're really 10 years into what will ultimately look like a 25-year cycle from invention to full implementation."1
In other words Mr. Chairman, we ain't seen nothin' yet.
As you consider the implications of P2P technology for the entertainment industry, please remember two important things.
First, Hollywood is hardly the only industry that is seeing is traditional business model transformed at an exponential rate by new technology. Technology companies themselves are just as susceptible, and even the largest player can be quickly humbled. Just a few weeks ago Business Week featured a cover story detailing how the Linux open source operating system is challenging Microsoft's business strategy to a far greater extent than the law, in the form of the Justice Department antitrust investigation, ever did or could.
Sun Microsystems, under the same assault as Microsoft, is actively considering striking up partnerships with mainstream Linux sellers and thereby become their ally, rather than their rival. Similarly, AOL, which grew to become the largest provider of Internet access dial-up services, is now seeing its business model undermined as cable providers entice its subscribers away with their high-speed broadband connections. And AOL is spending $millions to try to catch up to the growing broadband world with new and enhanced customer services. Unlike Hollywood, these technology companies understand that they cannot stop the digital revolution and must adapt their business strategies to new and
permanent realities.
Second, P2P software is but one link in a long chain of digital technologies that can be used as tools for copyright infringement. Massive copyright infringement can and is taking place without any resort to P2P software. Virtually every personal computer sold today, even the lowest price model, comes equipped with a CD burner for the reproduction of digital media, an Ethernet port for broadband connectivity, and a large hard drive for storing vast amounts of data. Blank, burnable CD-R optical disks outsold prerecorded CDs by more than a 2-1 ratio in United States last year; these discs are the most likely cause of technological displacement of CD sales, since they facilitate, in combination with "ripping" software bundled with new computers, the quick and easy duplication of complete CDs in full audio format. Cable and DSL broadband services provide fast connectivity between PCs. And portable players provide a means by which consumers can take copyrighted media with them wherever they go.
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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.