Every user can become a content provider.

[Afn]

Quote from info-anarchy news article:

P2P file sharing is a disruptive technology which offers cost-efficiency and zero maintenance at the price of increased software complexity. P2P file sharing technology allows artists to come in direct contact with their fans. Without attitude/social changes, the big content owners will need to adjust to the new environment where content distribution is nearly cost-free and all new songs/games/TV shows/movies appear on the Internet within 24 hours after their release. For the next decade, content owners will not be able to stop P2P file sharing with technological measures. They cannot attract the Ph.D.s needed to keep up with the fast evolution cycle.

P2P file sharing technology is still economically attractive. File sharing technology has been used to yield significant cost reductions. The common P2P theme of pooling resources for efficiency, eliminating the need for intermediaries, and removing single points of failure is appealing for many industries. A good example is Skype, the Internet-based telephone which gathered millions of users in just a few months. Skype is based on P2P file sharing technology such as Superpeers and NAT circumvention/Firewall avoidance. This technology allows Skype to offer a cheap service which is easy to use (no NAT issues) and is very reliable. Another example is webcams, broadcasting in real-time to one million users is very costly. Within two years we will have the P2P-based technology which reduce the costs of operating both webcams and Internet-based TV channels to near-zero. Every user can become a content provider.

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When every user becomes a content provider, selling copies of works of art becomes a very dumb idea. The article quickly says what I have talked and written about for the past several years. Any attitude or social changes will be seen for what they are, propaganda and will never work. Since world war two millions of students were educated to break down fascist and undemocratic systems.

The riaa and mpaa have become undemocratic organizations in an all digital world of content production and in a world where every content user is also a provider. This is a very major change and the process of dramatic change is just starting.

I posted this in news, but I like the forum comment system better than the news comment system.

[Ne007]

Yeh...but the are going to be paying ME if they want me to host files for their benefit.

[Star Guitar]

Why do they say "for the next decade?" Are they thinking that the corporates will simply give up at that time, or are they saying that they may eventually catch up with the rate of change?

[Afn]

Why do they say "for the next decade?" Are they thinking that the corporates will simply give up at that time, or are they saying that they may eventually catch up with the rate of change?

My educated guess is that technological processes have occured that the trend to always on, always available content will continue for the next ten years, regardless of what the majors do.

I think it will kill off most small publishing and what effect it will have on the majors is yet to be seen. Since most major labels are owned by large transnationals that are in many other industries, I think at some point the majors will distribute via p2p programs that propagandize (inform) the mass public to the values of the parent corporation. (Nbc is owned by GE, ect.)

I doubt a major would have a branded p2p client, and then use the client to run advertising and sell the new shows while giving away the old in a controlled manor. I doubt that would work.

I see the 500 year run of publishing about to get whacked with the 2by4 of new technology.

lol

[DigitalJunkie]

I think the majors will have to learn to sell products that can not be digitally transferable, such as posters, cofee mugs, toys & other marketing materials for concerts, movies & give away free CDs & DVDs! Don't feel bad for them, those merchandizes can be big profit makers for them also.

[Mels_Smileys45]

Wait till I can get one of those replicators like on star trek. When they try to sell replicators whats the first thing I'll replicate? More replicators for my friends! Screw the free world! Work is for suckers!

[Afn]

Wait till I can get one of those replicators like on star trek. When they try to sell replicators whats the first thing I'll replicate? More replicators for my friends! Screw the free world! Work is for suckers!

If you believe the hype of nanotechnology, in 100 years that technology may be as common as a microwave today. The basic idea is you build a single nano machine that builds other nano machines. The trick is to have the nano machines do something useful, intelligent.

Then we will be in the era of cut and paste machines.

[infringer]

Nanotech is actually a highly important step in the scientific leap so to speak. With it there will be things never dreamed possible which could happen. I read quite a few articales on nanotechnology but, for some reason my estimated guess is that nanotechnology will not be so scaleable untill we have microprocessors which are far smaller in scale then the ones we currently have and much faster and smoother data transfer once this is established I see nanotechnology becomming more main stream untill then I am guessing that it will only be used in military applications, which there is already tests being done on this as we speak. And for that to be known publically there is probably some backwoods efforts that are much further along and much more knowladgeable on nanotechnology.

One articale I read is that with nanotechnology there may be clouds of cameras dust particale like in size which can reproduce and take and send pictures in times of war this would provide who ever controls this technology with an enormous upperhand and you can bet there is a supoiorly high amount of funding going into this whether its milked from other funds or blaintantly funded as reasearch for this.

Truth what ever can be thought up can be made possible and will be made possible though there is exceptions to things such as time travel where there are many skeptics and theories to discredit the possiblilities of this. Between nanotechnology and quantum physics we will be shapeing an entire new way of living which has enormous benifits, but with these benifits will come enourmous pitfalls.

My theory is that for every negative there is a positive of equal value to any real life application. And with everything in this universe being so complex and over our heads I belive we can always count on one thing and that is balance meaning each negative or positive thing weather a real life event or an expirment or equation manufactured scientifically there is another result which is infact is reflecting opposite.

-infringer-

[Afn]

Nanotech is actually a highly important step in the scientific leap so to speak. With it there will be things never dreamed possible which could happen.

If nanotech works, truly works, then self repairing systems are possible, meaning extended lifespans of near unlimited duration. If medical nanotech works, we are talking about the ability to eradicate most if not all death and repair and fix all diesease!

Good and bad are one thing and no thing at all. Negation to find the truth. There is no truth.

[Afn]

And with everything in this universe being so complex and over our heads I belive we can always count on one thing

chaos

Our world is more complex today than it was 5 years ago. 500 years ago our world was less complex, but more over our heads to use your term. If you contrast what the average person knows today, versus what the above average or smartest person knew 500 years ago, you would be considered to be superhuman.


We are superhuman to a generation or two before us. We can name all of the technology in our daily life that we use that did not exist 10 or 15 years ago. 100 years ago, most of our modern life did not exist. 50 years ago in the golden age of the 1950's.

It is all dependent on cheap access to energy and social conventions that allow people to communicate and share ideas.