Tom Mennecke at Slyck has posted a "Winners and Losers"
file-sharing scorecard, a smart (if insufficiently linked) roundup of the shifting P2P landscape. While Tom notes that
the RIAA earned some jubilation over the Grokster case, the underlying erosion of RIAA credibility plus the unstoppable
increase in P2P use despite Grokster puts the RIAA atop the losers' column. "With more people using P2P and
file-sharing technology, while fewer are buying into digital music services, it’s clear the RIAA is running a
broken machine." Sony, naturally, is also a big loser. "Because of Sony-BMG’s fiasco, the
future of the DRM has been cast into doubt and destroyed any credible argument against online piracy. Most of all, they
betrayed the consumer."
Oddly, Apple makes the winners' column despite having little to do with
P2P. BitTorrent is the big winner, though. Torrent directory ThePirateBay is singled out for having a winning year, and
for its defiant pose in the face of copyright
violation notices.
Slyck: File-Sharing Winners and Losers
Reader Comments
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3. 'Peer Pressure' File Sharing is Coming To Firefox:
http://www.cybernetnews.com/?p=152
Posted at 4:04AM on Jan 7th 2006 by Ryan
5. The link to the post didnt show up in the last post so here it is again
http://www.amitganjoo.com/blog/?p=7
The link to the post didnt show up in the last post so here it is again
http://www.amitganjoo.com/blog/?p=7
7. Intellectual property is a hoax. Just do away with it, and it all makes so much sense.
This is the only P2P business model you'll ever need...
"A Free Market Model for P2P Content Distribution with Simulation"
http://gglabs.com/mad/fmfs-2.html
Read and understand.
Posted at 3:46PM on Jan 16th 2006 by Marc A. Donis
1. Well, I didn't know about it much but I would be obliged if I get some more information on this.
Posted at 6:25AM on Jan 2nd 2006 by emily