kippies
October 30th, 2009, 06:03 PM
Filesharing has changed significantly over the years landscape-wise. Before, as already mentioned, every week was a new development or a new creation related to p2p. Of course, this wouldn't last forever.
The copyright industry went after Napster and then Grokster. This discouraged innovation and got a number of people thinking twice when it relates to p2p development. BitTorrent put the final nail in the coffin as much of the development went to BitTorrent and creating better trackers, etc.
As I can see the traffic that goes to different news stories, it's actually not entirely the slowdown's fault - nor is it writers (news writers and programmers) either. I've written the odd news story here and there already in the past related to the development of p2p and the traffic most of the time was unimpressive at best. I'll still write stories related to development, but such stories have become unsexy as, according to some of the people I've spoken to, it's become little more than useless spam half the time now. I'm willing to bet even Digg stopped pushing a uTorrent update story on the front page these days.
Simple reason for all of this is simple - times have changed and so have people. Copyright has moved from a realm of law to a realm of politics. File-sharing has moved from a realm of technical development to a political issue. When copyright and technology clash, that's the fireworks people are more likely wanting to see vs. 'X software recieved an update today'.
I think the general public, when it comes to file-sharing, are more likely to say, 'Yeah, people file-share. Who doesn't?" It's become a common person thing now and not every common person will be looking for technical tidbits of a given client. This is why update stories often tank these days - because the general audience doesn't really care these days for the most part. A large part of the file-sharing population are really n00bs that only care that 'I get that file' as opposed to, 'hey, the overhead is slightly lower on this version!' That's just the reality of today and you have to roll with it.
The past was exciting. I won't argue that point in the slightest. It's just that what happened in the past won't be brought back no matter how hard you try (or else someone would have done that by now).
Yeah you and Tic are driving at the same thing and its something i had not considered much - maybe P2P is just getting old
:scratchchin:
I dont know- Ive kids from 16 down to 2 and P2P is not part of their vocabulary much-
mostly paid access on demand and subscriptions to sites are what they talk about. Its too much hassle to learn to circumvent DRM..find a cracked version etc... man im getting old LOL
Maybe we won the battle and lost the war ?
discuss
The copyright industry went after Napster and then Grokster. This discouraged innovation and got a number of people thinking twice when it relates to p2p development. BitTorrent put the final nail in the coffin as much of the development went to BitTorrent and creating better trackers, etc.
As I can see the traffic that goes to different news stories, it's actually not entirely the slowdown's fault - nor is it writers (news writers and programmers) either. I've written the odd news story here and there already in the past related to the development of p2p and the traffic most of the time was unimpressive at best. I'll still write stories related to development, but such stories have become unsexy as, according to some of the people I've spoken to, it's become little more than useless spam half the time now. I'm willing to bet even Digg stopped pushing a uTorrent update story on the front page these days.
Simple reason for all of this is simple - times have changed and so have people. Copyright has moved from a realm of law to a realm of politics. File-sharing has moved from a realm of technical development to a political issue. When copyright and technology clash, that's the fireworks people are more likely wanting to see vs. 'X software recieved an update today'.
I think the general public, when it comes to file-sharing, are more likely to say, 'Yeah, people file-share. Who doesn't?" It's become a common person thing now and not every common person will be looking for technical tidbits of a given client. This is why update stories often tank these days - because the general audience doesn't really care these days for the most part. A large part of the file-sharing population are really n00bs that only care that 'I get that file' as opposed to, 'hey, the overhead is slightly lower on this version!' That's just the reality of today and you have to roll with it.
The past was exciting. I won't argue that point in the slightest. It's just that what happened in the past won't be brought back no matter how hard you try (or else someone would have done that by now).
Yeah you and Tic are driving at the same thing and its something i had not considered much - maybe P2P is just getting old
:scratchchin:
I dont know- Ive kids from 16 down to 2 and P2P is not part of their vocabulary much-
mostly paid access on demand and subscriptions to sites are what they talk about. Its too much hassle to learn to circumvent DRM..find a cracked version etc... man im getting old LOL
Maybe we won the battle and lost the war ?
discuss