Where will File sharing be in 10 Years

[PuNiShErKiLl666]

The way everythings who knows were file sharing going to be in 10 years. Do you think file sharing will be around in 10 years or will everything be closed down or will there even be an internet. You vote

[Caitlyn Marble]

Maybe if we had a crystal ball. I imagine things will be either radically different or incredibly similar. and thats all I'm going to say.

:bk

[TC75580]

I've spent a great deal of research on the subject, and due to increasing holes in security and civil rights pertaining to the Internet, I predict that in 10 years ISPs will be forced to shut down with pressure from the RIAA and MPAA. Consumers will flock to Big Media's new plan for a more secure, private network.

:bk

[evilmegaman]

I think there will be a better thing than file sharing in ten years.

[Wings_of_Azrael]

I don't think file-sharing will be as big in the next 10 years, because of all the persecution from the RIAA and MPAA. However, I think hardcore file-sharers will be using some sort of offspring of FreeNet. Encrypted file sharing seems to be the most likely route, in my opinion.

[mojo-ris-in]

I highly doubt file sharing will ever die. It may go underground but I believe it's here to stay. As far as what type of programs, hard to say what type of file sharing programs will flourish in 10 years. Most likely it will not look anything like what we have now as the technology and software is constantly expanding and reaching for new plateaus.:devil

[Power Penguin]

In 10 years time, it will be better.

Time always makes things better.

[macazar88]

Mabey in 10 years the riaa would have put half the people who file sharein jail then they need 10 more years to et the other half.

[Crazy Horse]

Maybe there will be no need for file sharing. The artists may discover that this is the best medium to use. They may figure out that the present system of recording industry practice is no longer finacially beneficial to them. The RIAA and MPAA could fold if they don't adapt a new business model. 10 years from now there may be no need to "buy" music or go to a movie theater. Computers may have artificial intelligence and do all the thinking. Maybe..... Naw.... We'll probably be doing the same old crap and nothing will have changed that much.

[JordySchmit]

it can only improve.

in ten years time i believe file sharing will be better

[Celtic Fox]

In 10 years time I won't need any files I will have them by then. I only really want mp3's anyway I don't need software that badly. I don't spend all my life on the internet.

[Travis982]

File sharing has existed since recordable media came about. Maybe even before. Vinyl discs to magnetic tape, dual-deck cassette players w/high-speed copying. My grandfather even had a disc cutting machine. True this was all analogue, but the basic concept is the same. And of course, with the internet, it gets more attention now.

No, file sharing will evolve, but never go away.

[ashep612]

What will happen in 10 years? Who knows... In ten years I think it will be much the same, p2p is a runaway train and no one can stop it. The RIAA and MPAA can put on all the pressure they want, and once they do something really ridiculus like throw Joe Neighbor in jail, the American public is going to see just how ludacris all of these new acts and laws are and how they are losing rights and privacy to anyone who wants to see it, things will change. And if they come out with new CD protection, CD burning software will come out with ways to burn the CD otherwise they are out of business, ISPs will not be shut down for the same reason, DVD players, car stereos, and console games will not let the RIAA and MPAA make their systems incompatible with mainstream media. Its all coming to a keg of black powder with at least a 10 year fuse... what will happen? We'll find out I guess...

[MrProxy]

Obviously you people have no sense of time. 10 years is a long time. Lets go back 10 years for a comparison.

In 1992 was in the eighth grade and had a Tandy 1000. 4.77mhz processor, or something ridiculous like that. The thing had no internet connection. For that matter it had no modem. Even worse, it had no hard drive. You booted from disks. No Windows, of course. I dont even think it was DOS. It also had a 16 color display that was revolutionary for the time (4 color CGA long being dominate).

2002, things are vastly different. Ive gone through three other computers, with the current one having a 900mhz processor, 2 internal hard drives that total about 40 megs, Windows ME, and chock full of pirated material that I got from the internet (probably 75% from file sharing programs). Oh right, I graduated from the eighth grade too. And college, and some law school.

So at this rate, we should have direct neural hookups to the internet in 10 years. And as for the people saying that RIAA and such will get much more powerful, how do you know? Maybe in 10 years we'll have a system where everybody contributes to the good of society and everybody gets what they need. A world without fascist police terror, unjust imprisonment, racism, sexism, and god awful network television. Anybody discussing the RIAA in this thread is missing the much bigger picture.

[Ken17625]

I'm not a fortune teller. I cannot predict the future. Too uncertain at this point to even take an educated guess.